Lian Li Pc V2100 What a case

[gaida]

Hi Everyone,
I finaly managed to get my hands on a Lian Li V2100 and what a case it is !
Anthough expensive at 220 quid its worth every penny.
Its got 7x5" bays 12x3" for diskdrives.Its also very very well build and quiet.
I've put a few photos up on the web.Enjoy

http://www.seliani.com/gaida/photos/2004/Lian-Li-V2100/

[daz_uk30]

very nice......so does the motherboard mount upside down & the gfx card now has the heatsink/fan facing upwards ?

[Zathras]

That does look one stunning case. How quiet does it run?

[da_ging]

bloody expensive but looks nice although im alittle surprised as their seems to be some design shortcomings with it which i wasnt expecting

[gaida]

very nice......so does the motherboard mount upside down & the gfx card now has the heatsink/fan facing upwards ?

thats right

[gaida]

That does look one stunning case. How quiet does it run?

Silent since i replaced my Delta screamer cpu fan (its only got 2x120mm very very quiet fans plus i've added 2x80mm fans at the back).The inside of the whole case is covered with sound insulating material(even the back fan exhaust)

[directhex]

that is the sexist case i've seen in a while

[gaida]

bloody expensive but looks nice although im alittle surprised as their seems to be some design shortcomings with it which i wasnt expecting

Like what?
I havent found anything wrong with the case so far apart from the need to drill a few extra holes for the cables

[gaida]

that is the sexist case i've seen in a while

I know what u mean,im find myself looking at it all the time

[gaida]

have a few photos of my main setup aswell
http://seliani.com/gaida/photos/2004/workspace/

[gaida]

I missed that one
http://www.lian-li.com/products/pcv2100.htm

[Lord Kordir]

That's the first Lian Li I've seen that I would swap one of my CM 410s for

[Butuz]

Nice nice! Makes my PC70 look positively small form factor!

Butuz

[tekguru]

Can you please advise whether the v2100 has mounts for a standard ATX board? I'm looking to fit an Abit IC7-Max 3 which takes standard ATX mounts and want to make sure it fits.

Also cooling looks to be via two rear 120mm fans, a single 120mm fan at the front and possibly a 80mm fan on top, are there any other fan mounts? Asking as in my Chieftec Dragon case (in which I am using 2 x front 80mm fans / 2 x rear 80mm fans and with a Zalman 7000AlCu on the Prescott 3.3Ghz processor) I'm still getting heat issues. Will there be enough cooling do you think? Concerned also concerning whether the sound insulation will effect teh case acting as a heatsink.

Finally can you advise the clearence between the drive bay fronts and the inside of the door as in one slot I'd be wanting to fit a Zalman fan controller and the controls on that protrude quite a lot.

Cheers for any help and advise you can offer.

[iMc]

any reviews of this anywhere? ive googled but cant seem to spot anything.

[gaida]

In reply to iMc - There are none to be hornes i was going to write one(thats why i took all the photos) but got really lazy.

tekguru

It fits ATX
This is all u get 3x120 and 2x80
Congrats on the Prescot (look for prescot survival kit on ebay).
This case is deffenetly cooler than anything else ive seen.
The sound insulation does the job really well as far as i cant tell i doesnt affect the heat.
You can fit a bus in there mate

Ive got 12 HDDs,4 CD-ROMS,1 FDD GF FX 5900 and 3 pci cards have no heat problems with athlon 2200.
Theres a lot more room in the case
Hope it helped