rear fan is exhaust. Fan on hsf has high airflow and blows downwards like you've mentioned. Do you think there's a problem here?

rear fan is exhaust!!!

where's ur intake fan then?

don't tell me u set the hdd bay fan to intake

if yes, then the intake fan is sucking hot air ventilated by the psu

Actually the rear fan shud be as intake and the hdd bay fan as exhaust

ya, both mounting are kinda tight,
thats why thinking to change casing right now...

actually it is already crash the NB or mars,
but i just remove one pieve of the foxconn words,
then it fits ngam ngam at there...

hmm,i think i should post a pic of my casing..Wonder if any sifu here can help me manage the cables a bit ><....Most likely posted by tomorrow since my screamyx is down

This post has been edited by Lacus: Mar 4 2008, 05:05 PM

yeah..agreed. if refer to lian li spec sheet, the intake is from back and exhaust is at the front..

yeah i think got prob with ur airflow..there oredi few ppl asnwered it..summo i think will b more prob coz its semm tje air will b more go out tru ur rear fan..then abit hard for ur TR fan to push air to ur proc

Well, thats one problem with BTX setup though. I have seen 2 casing that have this problem as off current - the V1200 that you are using and the Silverstone TJ06. Both will have the HSF touching the bottom of the case if you are using tower coolers.

It's not the problem with BTX style .. it's the problem of design of the case ..

Since V-series was designed 4 years back if I'm not mistaken despite it's still one of the all time hall fame of LL product ..

It's still suffer of its old design as following:

Factor: Poor HDDs Cooling
Reason: Last time HDDs not many user actually owned 3 or more HDDs

Factor: Internal Cooling
Reason: Restrictive intake mechanism since in the old days other component doesn't required so much of cooling aids as much as now days with gc, nb and sb producing enough heats ..

Factor: Limited Space
Reason: Tower cooler wasn't popular at that point of time

once again bring up A05 as point of discussion

anyone that uses it before knows that this case despite of its small size, it still could fits in tower cooler easily without cramping the case ..

in fact, it's BTX style also ...

is it will effect the cooling performance if it touch together??

Well, yeah, you got a point there. But from the demand and design of the V1200, who knows its already 4 years old.

But the same thing happened to the TJ06 as well though which is still a new case. Barely 1 or 2 years old.

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This is something new :

Lian-Li Gives the Xbox 360 a New Case

This is on display at CeBit showing off a LianLi case with XBOX360 hardwares inside

Source : http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=3250&p=10

Okay, so after all those comments, I think I'll try change the front as exhaust and back as intake.

But if the front as exhaust, do you guys think a normal casing fan can actually blow out so much hot air, especially when ventilation holes are only at the side of the front panel?

Or should the more powerful exhaust fan be switched with the weaker fan in front? which makes the exhaust > intake?

But I stilll think additional blowhole at the side panel or at the top should be the best solution.

blow 120mm fan hole on top

change the pci slot cover to silverstone aero-slot (done by sniper on the roof & it works iirc)

cover ur CD-ROM & Floppy bay with some polistrene --> blocking any hole that will let the hot air exhausted going back in through the CD-ROM/Floppy bay

oh, don't worry bout the ventilation holes, the air is gonna get out from that tiny ventilation hole no matter what

my imagination:

ur exhaust fan as a running water pipe & the exhausted hot air is the water

would u think the water (hot air) will go back in through the running water pipe (exhaust fan)?

or goes out through those tiny ventilation holes?

& definitely goes back in to the case through those CD-ROM/Floppy bay if u don't find something to cover the gap

worried those tiny ventilation holes ain't good enough? i wouldn't think the hot air is gonna trap in there, hot air is exhausted more & more by the second, for sure its gonna get out through that holes, no more room to fill up already in those small gap

got what i mean or not

This post has been edited by E-J@1: Mar 5 2008, 03:48 PM

ya, this is one of the negative point have one the V1200 and V2000 case,
but just wait for new version of the V2000 case,
they notice this problem and shirnk the bottom hdd space,
and let the mobo space become bigger,
the tower cooler mounting wont be a problem after tat~

i thought it is proven by sniper that the lian li stock airflow configuration sucks
i dont see any problem with pmmonkey setup though

Don't jump to conclusion based on one or two opinion ..

Because the setup itself that really determine which is the best method of configuration of fans ...

I've never experience overheat issue with A05 on stock fan configuration after I mod the side panel .. however even before modding the side panel it's not too bad entirely .. only the gc is at the hot side ... 2900XT mah ...

just change my stock LL fan with silverstone fm123...dono about the airflow...but can set it to much more quiet then b4

How bout both the rear and front fan as intake and blowhole at top
Will it work on A05?

This post has been edited by Zicron: Mar 6 2008, 11:21 PM

What model is this? According to the guy at Hardforum it's a rebadged Lian Li.



Property of skyline889 @ [H]ardforum

In my opinion it's such a beauty and not to mention it's only US$70.

Anyway there's a rumour Lian Li announced the discontinuation of the V series.

Rocketfish, similiar to Lian Li A71