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The top panel is held in place with two thumbscrews. Simply remove these and pull back, then up on the panel to get to the interior.
There is a little white box taped to the central bar section which contains all the mounting screws (shown on previous page).
The central section, which is seen as silver above, can be removed entirely to fit optical and hard drives. There are two high quality, Lian Li branded 140mm fans installed to help ensure that the motherboard and components receive adequate cooling. Each of the fans is attached to a 3 pin header and Lian Li supply a molex cable adapter for direct connection to a power supply, if needed. These intake fans are dust filtered.
The central bar is held in place with three thumbscrews, one at the left, and two at the right. All of the central section is screwed into the outer chassis with standard screws. When these are removed, the two sections pull apart.
When removed, optical drives and hard drives can be installed into the rack section. The motherboard and power supply can now be installed into the main chassis.
The drive bay accepts both 2.5 inch and 3.5 inch drives. We fitted a 2.5 inch SSD to the very top panel section, it is held in place underneath by four screws. There is plenty of room inside for multiple hard drives, if high storage capacity is a particular concern.
Installing a power supply is exactly the same as in a standard full sized chassis. Four screws hold it in place, and there is an intake section underneath for cool air flow. The other 140mm fan mount in this area has a dust filter and can be populated later if required.
Careful section of CPU cooler is required, because as can be seen above our third party cooler was too tall for the top panel to be resealed. Lian Li claim 140mm (height) is the biggest cooler that the PC C60 can handle.
We tried an Intel Z68 motherboard with one of the new high grade Intel coolers (XTS100H), and we experienced no fitting problems.
Installing a graphics card is painless, although the PC C60 isn't equipped with the wonderful metal expansion port lever based locking system we have enjoyed with other Lian Li cases this year. The PC C60 can accept graphics cards up to 270mm in length, so larger discrete solutions such as the HD6990 won't fit. We installed the excellent Sapphire HD6850 Vapor X, as seen above.
Awesome, but the pricing make me cry. that will probably cost over £200 in UK, although I cant find it anywhere. you pay for the design and use of materials.
Very lovely! I dig the internal design. although its a shame its not tool less.
They could have made it about 1 cm ‘fatter’ to accommodate a whole new range of CPU coolers. Ideal would be an all in one liquid cooler however as they are small and there are fan positions for the radiator very close by.
The tool less design should have been passed over to the internal rack system, however I dont think the screws could be fitted in any way to accommodate the size.
It looks a bit big for what I would consider a true media chassis, but for gamers it would be good thanks to the shape.
They might get a few negative comments on the GPU size support, counting out the HD6990 etc.
What is the point of mesuring temperatures without the odd and hdd bays installed ?
Obviously, the air flow will be worse with the ODD cage on its way.
It would have been more useful to have temperatures and noise levels in a sli or crossfire configuration and the ODD and the HDD installed.
I used this case in a new HTPC build. Great case. Couple changes I made…shortened the ODD cage bottom by 22mm to clear the M/B power cable. Also the ODD cage blocked the front case fan, so I moved it to opposite side to exhaust warm air. Improved air flow.
I used Noctua NH-L12 CPU cooler…nice. No room for water cooling radiator and fan.
I think I should mention that the dimensions given for the PSU & VGA card length are only true if the rear harddrive bay cage is removed. Also, while the CPU Cooler height is accurate, they should mention that the support bar limits the height of VGA cards in the first PCIe slot to 130mm.
I think I should mention that the dimensions given for the PSU & VGA card length are only true if the rear harddrive bay cage is removed. Also, while the CPU Cooler height is accurate, they should mention that the support bar limits the height of VGA cards in the first PCIe slot to 130mm.
I used a Noctua NH-L12. There are two issues with it, the first being that the heatsink overhangs 3 of 4 memory slots. So you have to install memory before the heatsink. Second, the length of the optical drive has to be as short as possible. I kept both fans on the heatsink, but you could definitely remove the top fan and safely use the pc without overclocking. The Noctua fans are very quiet, and the heatsink is very effective.
You could use the NH-L12 fanless if you use a low wattage CPU like an i3-2100T or i3-2120T.
It was a really BAD idea to submit a review without the ODD and the HDD…
=> I put 2 HDD and they hit 39-40° at idle !
(34 and 37° with a 900rpm Aerocool Shark 12cm)
How can you sya the fans are silent as I hear the motor cache mess with the fan filter !
For now I had to put the filter outside and add little pads