Lian Li PC-V600FB

[berthez]

Hello there guys Just wanted to share some pictures of my new PC-V600FB and a little review and some thoughts I have about the case.

The V600F is a Lian Li mATX chassis and it comes with some nice innovative features and a pretty design. The case comes in 4 color options, silver, black, red and full black. There is a nice quality feeling to this case which is to be expected from all Lian Li chassis.

Front

Sidepanel

Top you can't fit a AIO cooler here because it will then hit the motherboard. Its a tight case

Front panel (on top)

Bottom with 120mm dust filter for the powersupply and 4 rubberfeet.

Back

It comes with 2x 120mm fans in the front that has blue LED and 1x 140mm in the roof. I personally don't like LED fans in a case, I think it looks much more elegant without the flashing blue LED's so I swapped them with a all black fan from Cooler Master. All 3 fans comes with dustfilters that is very easily removed by twisting it clockwise.

This mATX chassis has 2 sepperate harddrive bays which support up to 2x 2.5" drives and 5x 3.5" drives. I'm only using 1x 2.5" SSD and 2x 2.5" HDD's, now these harddrive cages is originally hotswap bays, but the hotswap does not support 2.5" harddrives, only 3.5" HDDs. To make my setup work as I would I had to screw out the hotswap PCB behind the harddrive cage (5 screws).

Cablemanagement on this case is not to bad, I use a non-modular PSU with 500 watts from Silver Power and I managed to get some decent looking cablemanagement after spending a fair amount of time on the cable routing. Honestly I thought it would be much worse than it turned out at last with the cable management, because this case does not come with more than one tight hole to push your cables through (that's what she said) and hide them away. The trick is to hide the cables you don't use at the bottom of the harddrive cage if possible, that helped me out a lot.

There is 15mm cleareance behind the motherboard tray.

You can have aircooling solutions up to about 155mm in height.

Lian Li was generous to put a hole in their case. Can you see it?

Overall I think this is a very nice case for an mATX build, and I think its the best looking mATX case on the market today.

Whats inside this build:
Intel Core i5 3450 cpu
Kingston HyperX Genesis 2x4GB 1600MHz ram
MSI B75MA-P45 mATX motherboard
AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition from XFX
CD/DVD Drive
2x 250GB 2.5" HDDs
1x Intel 80GB SSD


This is my first review, and I understand that it's not a very good one, but I did it for you guys, and I hope you liked it.

 

[berthez]

So there you have it

 

[alpenwasser]

It does look pretty neat. But as is common for Lian Li, their cable management options leave a bit
to be desired (especially with regards to grommets/cutouts).

To improve the review, here are a few suggestions:

• A pic or two of the case without hardware in it would probably be useful (I know that's quite a bit
  of work if you have your rig in there, but if you do something, might as well do it right ).
• Also, I would be interested in how much space is behind the M/B tray.
• How tall can the CPU cooler be before butting up against the side panel?
• Nice shots of every side from the outside (front, top, bottom etc.).
• Pictures with both drive cages mounted.
• Space for AIO coolers?
• And better illumination for the pictures. They're a bit too dark imho.

For inspiration, I suggest looking at some case reviews on review sites, then copying
their methods. There aren't really many ways to do a case review, it's pretty much a
standard pattern, at least as long as we're not talking about water cooling.

If I think of anything else I shall add it, but for now this is all. I need to go let my dog
have a swim

 

[SuB]

Li-li's will always have a fond place in my heart. Even if they are a bit oldschool and have depreciated so much these days.

Get those grease marks off the outside of the black allu and you're on to a winner. This makes me wish I'd recleaned and re-done my current rig in my li li now.. damn you

 

[alpenwasser]

Li-li's will always have a fond place in my heart. Even if they are a bit oldschool and have depreciated so much these days.

True. Even though it's far from perfect, looking at my PC-343B after all those years of loyal
service still makes me nostalgic. I had been lusting after a Lian Li for 7 years or so before
finally being able to get one, so it was quite a milestone for me

And the LL big tower in which I built my dad's PC (~2007 - 2008) is really nice, much more
sturdy than the PC-343B, and quite innovative for its time, with reverse ATX layout and a
pretty decent internal layout.

The one thing I wish Lian Li would finally do is getting with the times with regards to cable
management options. If they gave me that, they would be on my shortlist again in a heart-
beat, no doubt about it.

Get those grease marks off the outside of the black allu and you're on to a winner.

Yes! After you leave them for a certain while they won't come off again (at least that's been
my experience). The acids in your skin oils seem to somehow etch into the anodizing coat.

 

[SuB]

Yeah, as much as I enjoyed modding up my NZXT Switch, it rattles here and there. But it's sat atop the empty shell of my Li-li..

Makes me a little sad, that thing was built like a brick shit-house...

 

[alpenwasser]

Makes me a little sad, that thing was built like a brick shit-house...

I've always found that very curious. The 343B is really quite flimsy, whereas the LL big tower
for my dad's PC is, as you say, built like a brick shit house. And despite that, the 343B was
more expensive.

:headscratch:

 

[SuB]

I've got the PC G70b. And it has 3 x 120mm rad holes in the top.. Not so much as a wobble. My ONLY complaint.. the hdd cage is VERY hummy but that's solved easily these days with MOAR SSD!

Edit: Dya know what, screw it. I'm gonna take the old girl out and give her a proper clean up and I'm gonna rebuild my rig back into a proper solid case.. Hope she can handle a little more dremel action!

 

[alpenwasser]

Edit: Dya know what, screw it. I'm gonna take the old girl out and give her a proper clean up and I'm gonna rebuild my rig back into a proper solid case.. Hope she can handle a little more dremel action!

And thus this thread's destiny has been revealed: Getting LL cases back into action

Don't forget pics!

 

[berthez]

Well then, Ive updated pictures now and some specs about the case. Thanks for the suggestions alpenwasser. I can't tell if you could mount any AIO cooler inside this case without modifications, its such a tight case and between the top fan and the motherboard there isn't any room left for a radiator, it would eventually hit the motherboard. In the front there is 2x 120mm fan mounts, I'm not sure about if a 240mm AIO cooler would fit there because I dont see that there is enough clearance between the rad and the optical bay. If you were to remove the optical bay then you could easily fit a 240mm rad in the front.

 

[alpenwasser]

Happy to help

If I think of anything else I'll let you know.