LIAN LI PC-P80 Black Aluminum ATX Full Tower Computer Case

Pros: Had this case for almost a year now and it's worked like a champ. Quite a few things to say:

1. Easiest for fitting an SR-2 without too much modification. You will ideally, need to tap one mounting point on the motherboard tray to fit every screw on the SR-2.
2. Once it's filled with SR-2 and an SR-2 PSU, it's quite tight but you have enough room to work in. If this has a regular board combo in it, expect lots of room!
3. Top fan is controlled by an IO header board underneath the slanting part of the case next to the top inputs.
4. All 3 front door fans are controlled by an IO header below the lowest fan in a rectangular box at the bottom of the door.
5. I don't know how long main the main fans last as I replaced all mine with YateLoon Red LED ones. For tips on re-wiring the case, please reference videos mentioned below.
6. To access the top fan, unscrew the 8 screws horizontally around the top panel, then unscrew 6 more to removed the angled top section.

Cons: There are only a few seeing as how this is the first premium and "real" case I've owned in a long time:

1. Black metallic screws appear non heat-treated and are soft. I've stripped 3 or 4 working on this with normal pressures. This has required me to very carefully DRILL the screws and tap them out. Lian-Li, PLEASE heat treat your black screws! Better yet, match them and go get matching, stronger screws ;)
2. Very long graphics cards may make inserting or removing hard drives tricky due to having to pull drives back out of the cage.
3. Cages are oftentimes wedged in and barely want to move at all. Why this wasn't turned 90 degrees is baffling me.
4. Wish The Egg would carry the P80N version - depending on your needs, it seems to simply refine everything that made the original P80 so great.

Not a con but this case is heavy when full of course. It's solid though and I couldn't be happier.

Overall Review: If you'd like to learn more about some of the specifics with building this case and an SR-2, I have quite a few Youtube videos documenting the process under "CosplayerTheRealLink".

Other:

1. Removable dust filter = awesome. Saved me so much dust build-up. I still blow it out every couple weeks with a Dustvac and clean the filter.
2. Heavy. Solid. GREAT!
3. The 3 fans on the front door *can* connect via daisy-chained molexes alone to a 4-pin to fan header converter - just barely. They tuck into the side indents of the door well enough.
4. Small inconvenience to open the door for any disc needs but again, I do like the finished and clean look.
5. I have 3 opticals in the top 3 bays and a 3.5" Rosewill card reader in the 4th. So far, should I accidently nudge the door, I've yet to see a memory card be eaten by a fan. Optical drives have enough umph to knock the case door open by the way should they eject a disc.
6. Keylock is great for moving w/o door opening.

Pros: N/A

Cons: I have to repair the inside fan controller board myself, the company would not respond to any of my messages. The fan controller is blocking electrical current somehow. It was working fine and then 3 months later it does not!

Overall Review: You can not get ahold of this company. I tried and tried. The outside fans of this case stopped working after 3 months. Now the fan controller, when used, makes all the outside fans not work. There must be a problem with the electric current not reaching all outside fans. The fans still light up blue leds, but there is not enough voltage coming through to make the fans spin. I tried to contact the company and nothing was done, several emails, even tried calling and faxing.