Lian-Li PC-V1000

[Ethex]

Originally posted by: Tabb
I am really trying to figure out if a PC V-1200 can fully fit a Antec NeoPower. Thats what really is on my mind at the moment, not to mention if they case could be easily modded into fitting something larger.

I can tell you couple things. The antec NeoPower fits into the V2000 very nicely. The V1200 is the same depth as a V2000. Make your own assumtions.

NeoPower in a V2000

 

[Tab]

Thanks Ethex Looks like I know what I'll be buying..

 

[RudePuppy]

I have had my heart set on this case for months now, and I've only found one negative comment in my research, from a customer review at Newegg I believe. The guy said that he was having problems with his high end video card overheating once he moved to this case because the heat from the CPU was rising into the video card instead of away from the video card. It's the only comment of the kind that I've seen, but that sounds like a very real, or I should say potentially real problem with the inverted mobo design. Any comments from current owners?

 

[Tab]

You could get a arctic silencer or get a card that blows the heat out of the case or a blow pci slot thingy.....yea..

 

[Mik3y]

or get liquid cooling.

 

[undyingpayne]

Oh god.. it's a nightmare!

I bought a PC-V1000 and I am currently putting my system together. Everything was going great until I started putting more and more wires in and started realizing that I was screwed. Hugely screwed. I can NOT manage my wires in this case.. I don't know why but I can not think of any possible way to reduce my clutter. I can't post a pic as I won't have my digital camera back until tomorrow but I really really REALLY need help here. If anyone can explain/show how they did it, I would really appreciate it.

I can barely even FIT my rounded IDE cable. In the case I currently have 1 DVDRW, 1 Floppy, and 2 SATA drives.

 

[tmservo]

Yeah, let me know on your cabling nightmare. I used the Antec NeoPower 480 with 2 PATA, 1 SATA, 1 Floppy, 2 DVD-RWs.. and didn't run into much in the issue of cabling problems. While the SATA took a bit of a trick (longer cables, some fitting) the PATA devices cynched together so easy it's not even an issue; and the power cable clutter... no problem.

I'm not sure on the 'video card heat' issue; I'm running a 3700+ AMD64 & a Geforce 6800GT.. I've found that the Antec PS didn't add much to the heat in that corner; and the AMD64 + the back vent fan did a good job of keeping things nice and cool. The biggest benefit is that the video card heat now vents up and away from prime components (CPU, PS).

So far, extremely happy. First case I've seen in years that accomplished what I thought was the right idea; in a sense, this case uses the BTX idea on ATX MBs.

 

[MPistner]

LoL, calm down! When you get your cam back, definitely take a couple pictures so we can see what we're dealing with

I'll grab my alternate battery for my camera since my main isn't charged and take a couple pics... its not the greatest example of organization since i just put in a new PSU (BTW PC Power and Cooling 510 deluxe fits perfectly in my PC-V1200 and is an AWESOME PSU...) The only thing I think I had a hard time with, was my ide drives and that rounded cable... Otherwise my sata was just perfect, floppy and opticals were pretty good too.... Give me a little bit and I'll get some pictures up for you.

 

[Tab]

Anyone have some S-ATA cabling pics? (V-1200 perferred). Assuming that we have a S-ATA Hard Drive at the bottom of the case could a standard (the one that comes with your mobo) S-ATA fit into a S-ATA connecter on the top end of the motherboard?

 

[Tuzzi]

Originally posted by: Tabb
Anyone have some S-ATA cabling pics? (V-1200 perferred). Assuming that we have a S-ATA Hard Drive at the bottom of the case could a standard (the one that comes with your mobo) S-ATA fit into a S-ATA connecter on the top end of the motherboard?

Don't have any pics for you. But I run mine on my V1000 out the back and up. Can hardly see them.

I use 20" SATA cables

 

[MPistner]

Tabb, I'll have my pics up at some point tonight. I'm running a PC-V1200 and my Sata cables are fine. Again, haven't cleaned up the case yet since changing the PSU, but at least you can see what fits and what not...

 

[MPistner]

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Again, not very organized and sorry about the blur on the last 2, was trying a different setting on the camera

Otherwise as you can see, the 18" Sata cable really has no problem reaching the front Drive slides on the PC-V1200. It's got more room so when I go through and organize everything in the vase, I'll be able to route it where ever I'd like.

 

[MPistner]

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[Tab]

Cool, I just hope a WD Secure Connect Cable would fit... Just another month or two of working

 

[stevennoland]

Originally posted by: Mik3y
the cons for having a flipped motherboard is that the videocard will blow heat straight at the cpu area, making it even hotter a bit (as wut i've been told), but other then that, its fine. its hard to find a silver optical drive to match the front bezel.

I don't understand your logic. For the Vid card to blow directly @ the CPU the fan would have to be on the back of the card! Think about it.

 

[chadomaly]

I crammed all the wiring exploding from a 550w enermax PSU into a v1100b. It was a bitch, but after an hour or so I have them reasonably contained in the case.