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Being a small chassis, and being constructed entirely from aluminium, the Lian Li PC-Q17 ships in a compact and light brown box.
Inside, there is little in the way of stand-out extras, but there are a lot of screws.
You have plenty of options when it comes to mounting 2.5-in and 3.5-in drives as there are enough screws for 5x 2.5-in drives and 3x 3.5-in drives (though you cannot fit a total of 8 drives in the case.) Also included are rubber anti-vibration mounts to dampen any noise HDDs could make.
Of course, there are some standard motherboard standoff screws – 4, as it is an ITX case – as well as plenty of extra fan screws.
Most notably, the PC-Q17 also includes two small red LED strips – each powered by a 3-pin fan header. This is a nice touch – but my only concern comes from the fact that the strips are powered by fan headers. Mini-ITX motherboards tend to have the bare minimum of fan headers – the board I used to build in the PC-Q17 has just 3, for example. This means, unless you have a fan-splitter (which is sadly not provided) you will either have to sacrifice 2 case fans or go without the LEDs.
that isn’t a lot of space for a graphics card however it would have been nice to include the max length for one in the review
Written on multiple pages that VGA cards up to 270mm are supported.
ok, my bad
No problem. 270mm is a lot and should fit many modern, high-end graphics cards
I see here that it is stated that the side panel is tempered glass, but on other sites it is mentioned to be acrylic. Have they made an update to the case or was that an error?