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Opening up the case using the two thumbscrews reveals the silver-coloured aluminium interior. The motherboard tray has a reasonably large cut-out for installing a CPU cooler alongside a selection of cable routing holes.
Over on the right we find the six bay hard drive rack beneath the three optical drive bays. If you don't want to spoil the beautiful aluminium finish of the case with an optical drive then Lian Li offer an optical drive bezel for sale separately to cover it up.
The two front panel 120mm intake fans that blow cold air through the hard drive rack have removable dust filters which can be accessed by removing the front panel.
The PC-B25F has the same tool-less add-in card retention mechanism as the PC-8FIB we reviewed recently. This is probably the best one out there as it's extremely easy to use and holds cards in almost as securely as screws. Above this we find a Lian Li branded 120mm exhaust fan which we replaced with a Coolit Vantage for testing.
On the underside of the case we find a removable dust filter for the PSU vent in the bottom of the case. This can be removed for cleaning and should stop too much carpet fluff being sucked into your PSU.
Another quality Lian Li product. nice finish.
A lot of their cases have halved in price recently, good price now for quality aluminum. £230 wasn’t so much.
I love Lian Li, but most of their designs are very similar. they aren’t really developing much.
Good review henry. seems a nice enough product all round at a good price point.
I recently bought this case and I am very happy with it. It holds all my current hardware with an honor. Have gone through several steel cases (most recently a Antec Sonata II from 2005), I was looking for a modern case with better cable management, increased space for my hard drives and better ventilation. I also wanted the outer dimensions to stay moderate. I have now filled my Lian Li case with six hard drives (5 of them begin 5200 rpm drives to conserve energy and reduce noise), a Phenom II X4 965, very large Noctua CPU cooler, ATI 5850, Gigabyte mother board and a ODD. I also did buy the black front bezel to cover the ODD, a piece of plastic and aluminum that make all the difference in the world for appearance. Although not everything is great with this case. The fans is all too noisy for my taste. I ended up disconnecting all of them but one at the top. And even on that one I installed a resistor to lower the rpm. Yet, my CPU, MB and graphics card stay within limits, hard to believe but true. But truth to be told I value quiet computing more than reading ‘CPU temperature weekly’. Regarding USB 3.0 connectors I am not that worried. Lian Li have released replacement front connectors to other cases and I hope they will for this case too. When time comes I will probably buy one of those too. I would recommend this case to my friends.
Please consider, English is not my first language. Greeting from Sweden.
It is very good to see their prices dropping in the UK, at the start of this year they were not feasible to most people, but this one seems quite competitive considering.