"Back to basics"

[Gurt11]

Hello OC3D!

It's not exactly what we call a big project, it's just something I'm doing for my parents. The old pentium 4 went to a better place (amen) and made room for this:

Case: Lian Li PC-A05FN black
Mobo: ASRock H61M/U3S3
Cpu: Intel i3-2120
Ram: 4gb ddr3-1333 kingston value
SSD: Crucial m4 128gb
Psu: Be Quiet Pure Power 300W

No remarks on the packaging of the case...

Ain't she a beauty? ^_^

Goodies! :biggrin:

 

[seumasbeathan]

Some good parts you got there Looking forward to seeing more

 

[Gurt11]

Side and front panels off:

Ready to chuck the motherboard, cpu and ram in:
Motherboard comes with everything you need, nothing more, nothing less.

That's that... And put in the case:

Some remarks about the case:
It feels like quality, looks like quality and basicaly that's what it is. The metallic inside is not my prefered look but that's personal. Their cables and cable management option however could have been done a little better. I'm not tempted to plurk a 24pin cable through that tiny hole there. And even if you'd succeed in doing that, there's no hole at the right side of the motherboard. Cables will just have to come from behind the motherboardtray... The only way to make this look neat and tidy is when you've got a modular psu, sleeved cables all the way and very much patience to do the cable management in the back of the case.
Another option would be to shorten your cables so much that there's practically no need to cablemanage, as the psu is in the front of the case:

The airflow in this case is inverted. So backside is intake, out through the front. You could swap the fans around, but only possible if you remove the entire hdd rack. Also not the most practical thing.

Let's not forget the SSD:

Not even screws in the box not that they're needed...
For now it's this! Cables can be pulled a little thighter but that's for when I'm sure everything works properly ^^

 

[yassarikhan786]

That case just looks awesome

 

[giannakos23]

wow that's not bad at all !! this is something to show us that not all people need the computing power of an i7 or an i5 !! pretty good mate !!

 

[Gurt11]

wow that's not bad at all !! this is something to show us that not all people need the computing power of an i7 or an i5 !! pretty good mate !!

Very well said! And thank you.