Lian Li announces Ebonsteel Series – three steel hewn chassis

[HEXUS]

The PC-K5, PC-K6, and PC-K6S mid-towers bring affordability to the Lian Li brand.

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[azrael-]

Correction: Its first ever range of steel chassis under its own main brand. Lian Li has previously offered steel chassis under the LanCool brand.

It's a bit of a shame, though. The PC-K5 screams a bit too much "gamer!" and the PC-K6 resembles the Corsair Obsidian series a bit too much for my liking.

There was a time when Lian Li chassis had their distinct look and you just knew you were looking at a Lian Li original. Seems these days are gone.

[rjs675]

a lot more affordable than i thought they'd be!

[jigger]

UK pricing. Falls over.

[Myss_tree]

Nothing here that sets them apart from a myriad of other very similar looking cases.

[JCBeastie]

UK pricing. Falls over.

Oh god, I hadn't noticed. Got my Lancool PC-K9X for around £60, and that's black anodised aluminium panels, on black painted steel.

[Pob255]

Oh god, I hadn't noticed. Got my Lancool PC-K9X for around £60, and that's black anodised aluminium panels, on black painted steel.

that was the only lancool with aluminium all the others where steel frame & panels with abs plastic bezels

It's a real shame they dropped the cool tool-less pci card fitting, granted most tool-less pci card systems are junky but the one they used on the lancools was very good and actually could hold a graphics card.
Probably not enough space on the pc-k5 but looks like it would fit on the pc-k6
Also the LanCool tool-less psu clamp was nice although it needed improving to fit more types of psu.

On these two cases.
The pc-k5 is a bit meh, you can see that space will be very tight for a mid tower, esp width wise and why does the psu filter pull off forward so you have to lift the case to get to it?

The pc-k6 looks a lot better in terms of internal space, it's external design is a bit monolithic and why bother with the psu & drive bay covers when you're not including a side window?
The only real reason for covers is to hide the bays, psu and the wires in windowed cases. Seems like someone at Lian-Li saw this new cool thing people are doing so had to do it too without understanding what it was and why people are doing it.