oh thanks for the info..can find it at low yat rite??

There's one shop very nearby ATE shop that got sells different kinds of sata cables ... from length to angle ..

btw make sure u check properly which direction of 90 degree angle you want ...

guys, is it recommended to install a blower fan in a BTX setup?

I'm planning to install a evercool fox blower on my upcoming PC-05.. izzit ok?

hehe im oso think to put blower fan inside my case..will use Antec Cyclone blower the cfm n dba oso good

i have a PCI blower similar to the evercool fox blowers....

put it right next to my GC....really helps to bring the temp down man...

hehehe... nice.. i just bought a 2nd hand Fox-2 blower. Now have to wait the casing to arrive

oh ya....by temp i mean my GC temps......brought it down by about 10c.

so both my 1st and 2nd card idles and loads at about the same temps instead of the usual 10c difference i see in sli rigs.

1 more thing to take note....my GC cooler is the type that blows the air out out the back wan...so it helps to remove more... i wouldnt recommend putting it on GC coolers like zalman or whatever where the 2 fans will be fighting against each other for air.

Lian Li has revealed that it will launch no less than ten different case designs between now and this year's Computex tradeshow in Taipei, Taiwan in June.

The designs will cover many different markets, including mainstream, home theatre and high-end and although we haven't seen all of the new cases, the ones we have seen in the flesh are looking pretty awesome.

While the Armoursuit PC-P80 split opinion in the bit-tech offices, I'm sure that some of the newer cases are a return to form for Lian Li - the sleek and stylish designs are back. The company's representatives say that they're excited to see how some of the new cases are received by the community - it really believes it's onto something good.

Of the cases we saw during our visit to the company's offices in Keelung City in the North East of Taiwan, there were a few that really caught our eyes.

First of all, the company's new home theatre cases-the PC-C36 and PC-C37-look promising with some interesting new ideas. One complaint that Lian Li said it had from its previous HTPC cases was the support bar across the middle - it was fixed in place.

PC-C36
PC-C37



With these two new designs, the bar is removable, which will definitely make the installation process a lot easier. There are other enhancements too - both feature a small PCB at the front that apparently allows you to boot into a Linux distro to search for (and presumably playback) media files.

The PC-C36 comes complete with a TFX power supply, while the PC-C37 supports standard ATX PSUs - there's no word on pricing on either of the designs yet as it's still being finalised, but we'll get hold of that information as soon as possible.

We then moved back to more standard full tower designs, of which the company showed us three new designs, the PC-A20, the PC-A7110 and the PC-A7010. The PC-A7110 and PC-A7010 are very similar by design-the only difference really being the door-which is reserved but stylish at the same time.



PC-A7110


PC-A7010

Both feature removable motherboard trays and the quality of finish you've come to expect from Lian Li. Again, there's no detail on exact pricing for either model, but we were told that both should hit roughly the same price point and that they'll be cheaper than the Armoursuit PC-P80.

The third full tower we saw was the PC-A20, which is an upgrade from the older PC-A10 design and features some improvements. For example, there is now a 120mm fan above the memory slots that's designed to help improve airflow around the CPU socket. In addition, Lian Li has also added a 140mm fan directly above the PCI-Express slot location - this exhausts hot air from the graphics cards straight out of the chassis.




PC-A20


There are of course five more cases that we didn't get to see because they weren't quite ready to be shown to us - Richard did see some prototypes for the new V1010 and V2020 cases, and also the X2000 chassis, at CeBIT this year. The first two haven't changed much, but the X2000 has been modified slightly to fit longer graphics cards inside. There is also a shorter version of the X2000 planned for release soon too, but details on that chassis were very scarce.

I know some of you have been waiting for the Xbox 360 case ever since we first covered it at the Consumer Electronics Show. The design has undergone some changes since then-Richard saw a significantly modified version at CeBIT, but there are more changes that have been made since then. The good news is that the Xbox 360 case is very close to being launched - Lian Li is waiting on delivery of just one part and then it'll be ready for shipping to the channel.

We also had time to have a quick look around one of Lian Li's factory, where it quickly became apparent why it charges a premium for its cases. Everything is manufactured to an incredibly high standard-as I'm sure many of you can attest to if you've ever owned a Lian Li chassis-and literally all waste is recycled - I was told that employees would get fired if they were caught throwing waste material away!

Source: http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/04/11/li...fore_computex/1

well some look cool n some look dull pricing available localy?

Not yet launch so no price lor
The soonest i expect to see it here is in the 3rd Quarter of 2008.
BTW, still got 5 more cases not reveal

dull is the image given by lian li to me... but internal structure is amazing!

i wonder when these casings will be available locally...

PC A20 looks gd..
hope the price will be gd too.

Woooi!!! The case sure looks amazingly beautiful but I also believe the price is not cheap.

A20 looks ALMOST appealing...its an upgrade of the A10... but they changed the most appealing factor for the A10 to me... the removable mobo tray...

instead of sliding out the back with the pci slots... they made that stupid removable mobo tray ONLY wiothout the pci slots

sigh... the so called "improvements" i can prolly mod myself la..

if you guys look closely at the PC-A7110
the place where the hd are.. you can
clearly see a HD backplane.. sata hot swap support ? COOL

no more messy wiring and etc.. all using an intergrated backplane..

kewl oldies design.. any price list on local market?

Those casings are nice but unfortunately, not many shops carry full range of Lian Li casings these days. I only know of ATE.

hmm ... I don't know it's me or there's no hype at all when looking at these new Ah Lian casings...

A7XXX series indeed has larger spaces, better HDD cooling solution and supporting frame .. but that's not something new at all ..

Besides the HDD cage used is not really a vibration absorber, I can't imagine with that many of HDDs installed .. how noisy it would be ..

Meanwhile Looking at A20.. hai .. not sure what's so good about it ..

Like mADmAN's comment about the removable tray ... it's really stupid design .. it doesn't help to ease the installation process since all those cards have to be removed before able to pull the motherboard out ..

besides that from my experience with A10 and A16 .. A16 has the same tray like A20... it's not really easy firm and strong ..

furthermore when installing it back ..have to make sure it's really aligned precisely else any card that needed to be installed on the mobo might faced miss alignment ... where's the convenient of having removable tray ??

as for the door .. unless it has very good intake property .. else with no intake fan at the upper zone... I bet it would suffer the same heat issue as A10 does ...

hai ... not to mention the revised V-series ... ohh .. god ..

reverting back to ATX probably facilitates heat pipe during dissipation process ... but it make installing 4 or 8 pin mobo connector harder..

not all PSU has the cable length to reach there ....

Overall I'm not sure the move of using 14cm fan is a good idea...

because there's limited number of 14cm out there for after market solution .. further more many enthusiast has a dozen of 12cm fan lying around ..

Overall I can't see any WOW factor on any of the new released case ...

What they do it's just fix the thing is not broken and leave the problem as it is ..

This post has been edited by Doom: Apr 14 2008, 05:53 PM

One thing about Lian Li is they make huge full tower cases which can fit plenty of stuffs (including water cooling, dual or triple rads) These full tower is still cheaper than a Silvertone TJ.

I personally like the PC-A77 but no idea where to get it.