Internal Design of the PC-60 Plus
As soon as we open the PC-60 Plus, we are taken back to the design of the PC-6070. At the front, the 5-1/4” drive bays are designed the same – as a single piece of metal folded around, which extends all the way to the back of the case at the sides of the power supply mount. None of the drive bays are tool-less, which we weren’t expecting due to Lian Li’s track record for leaving tool-less features out of their products. Each drive requires screws (provided with the case) to be mounted to the drive bays, which proves to be secure and tight to keep the drives from moving around during operation.
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The only change that we see are the two 3-1/2” bays directly under the 5-1/4” bays instead of three as we mentioned earlier. They are meant for floppy drives, memory card readers, etc. - anything that requires external access on the front bezel. The PC-60 had three of these while the PC-60 Plus only has two, which is enough for typical home and business user applications.
The PC-60 Plus also features the same removable HDD cage that we found on the PC-6070. It can hold up to five 3-1/2” HDDs vertically or three HDDs mounted horizontally with the included cage partition. The drive cage is secured to the case by two thumbscrews and can be removed by sliding the cage out through the open side of the case.
As we shift our eyes to the back of the case, we see the expansion slots use thumbscrews to secure any add-in card that we would want to install like our 9800XT video card. One thing we notice is that the frame of the case interferes when using a screwdriver to install or remove these thumbscrews.
It isn’t really a big issue, since they are thumbscrews, but the option to use a screwdriver easily always adds a few points to the final judging of the case.
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cHodAXUK - Saturday, February 26, 2005 - link
Something that doesn't look like a Morphy Richards chrome toaster, sadly half of the Lian Li product line is afflicted with dreary looks. It looks like a silver box and looks no different than cases that have been sold for the last 20 years, infact it looks almost exactly like an old case that Brother used to use on their 386 line back in 1988 apart from the Aluminium finish. Plain can be good but Lian Li do plain almost to point of generic. Construction wise the case is first class, no complaints there at all.ProviaFan - Saturday, February 26, 2005 - link
So what's your idea of a non-ugly case, #10? Something that has a huge-ass window in the side, with spinning blinkenlichten in all of the fans, and some god-awful combination of colors in the huge other-worldly logo?danidentity - Saturday, February 26, 2005 - link
Will that CPU duct interfere with larger heatsinks like the Thermalright XP-120?cHodAXUK - Saturday, February 26, 2005 - link
F'ugly case, always has been and always will be.WW2Planes1 - Saturday, February 26, 2005 - link
Nice case definately. I actually prefer the older layout for the most part though. I would like to see the newer front connector though, and the screw in standoffs.Incedentally, I've got a PC-65B (Same layout as the PC-60, for the most part), and didn't the original PC-60s have dual 80mm fans? not 60mm?
ProviaFan - Saturday, February 26, 2005 - link
I have an older kind of PC-60 (from looking at pictures, it seems these things went through several revisions at least - mine has the front fan speed control switch actually sticking through, while from some pictures it seems that this switch was behind the bezel), which has two 80mm fans up front.Anyway, the review was good, and if I were doing it over today, I would get the new version instead. However, there's not much point in "upgrading," IMHO.
pbrain - Saturday, February 26, 2005 - link
While I don't know if at some point they used 60mm, the PC-60 I have uses 2x 80mm fans.Da3dalus - Saturday, February 26, 2005 - link
I'm buying a PC-6070 when they get back in stock here (next week hopefully). It's more ezpensive than this one, but it has sound-dampening (big reason for choosing it, my comp is a bit too noisy now) and looks nicer :)mattsaccount - Saturday, February 26, 2005 - link
The message is clear: Lian Li makes great cases :)Bonesdad - Saturday, February 26, 2005 - link
Nice features inside...a bit dull looking on the outside. MUCH better than those silly little boy cases reviewed in the past.