Eduard31

danny.nguyen

Eduard31

danny.nguyen

MGPdevil

Eduard31

Does anyone know the release date for LianLi PC-V2120B??

According to this Lian-Li page release date is October 20, 2010.

http://lian-li.com/v2/tw/...image/v2120/flyer.html

PC-V2120X

But I got PC-V2120S (silver). I just found out that PC-V2120X is fully anodizing both inside and outside of the case.

cage

Impossible, Where did you buy it?

Sorry for the delay as I went oversea for holidays. I got it directly from Taiwan via the NZ supplier who pushed Lian Li into production, which he did. It seems I was the first one to get it, seriously.

Really? There is a online shop, or not?
I'm very interested in this chassis.

You can contact Ming on sales@overclockers.co.nz or I just put my silver case up for sale on the other thread if you're interested but one of the dual Noctuca DH-14 heatsinks that cannot clear the long bar where the video cards holds. There are two things that need to remove which are a 140mm internal fan which attached the wall that has alot of holes. Both of them must remove otherwise it won't slide the motherboard tray in with SR-2. That I did, it fits perfectly.

You need low profile heatsink unless you're into watercooling then it's fine that you can use that bar but that fan and the wall had to be rmeoved though.

boredgunner

You don't have to use the video card support bar in the PC-V2120.  If anything it's a gimmick.  But a cool gimmick.  

Yeah I know but i am picky :(...I guess I should get used to it. I wouldn't buy Lian Li again for misleading or marketing deception like you said it's a gimmicky!

danny.nguyen

Eduard31

danny.nguyen

Eduard31

danny.nguyen

MGPdevil

Eduard31

Does anyone know the release date for LianLi PC-V2120B??

According to this Lian-Li page release date is October 20, 2010.

http://lian-li.com/v2/tw/...image/v2120/flyer.html

PC-V2120X

But I got PC-V2120S (silver). I just found out that PC-V2120X is fully anodizing both inside and outside of the case.

cage

Impossible, Where did you buy it?

Sorry for the delay as I went oversea for holidays. I got it directly from Taiwan via the NZ supplier who pushed Lian Li into production, which he did. It seems I was the first one to get it, seriously.

Really? There is a online shop, or not?
I'm very interested in this chassis.

You can contact Ming on sales@overclockers.co.nz or I just put my silver case up for sale on the other thread if you're interested but one of the dual Noctuca DH-14 heatsinks that cannot clear the long bar where the video cards holds. There are two things that need to remove which are a 140mm internal fan which attached the wall that has alot of holes. Both of them must remove otherwise it won't slide the motherboard tray in with SR-2. That I did, it fits perfectly.

You need low profile heatsink unless you're into watercooling then it's fine that you can use that bar but that fan and the wall had to be rmeoved though.

Thanks very much, for this very useful information!

danny.nguyen

Guys, just friendly warning about Lian Li V2120 for heatsinks. Don't buy Noctuca DH-14 because you cannot slide it out easily as the top one need to take it out before sliding it out so it's alot of hassles!

Thermalight Venomous X would be suitable. I think I will sell/trade my noctuca ones.

Thanks but any alternatives?
I don't like Thermalright...It's really good the Venomous?
I think that the fan isn't included...

http://www.frostytech.com...iew.cfm?articleID=2521

I'm gonna find out about this heatsink, will contact the supplier, just to make sure, I gotta sell/trade mine.

Hi Danny,

can you post some pics of your case and setup, please
I am thinking/hoping to get this case too, but will air-cool, and I was thinking of the same coolers as you have now. so maybe its back to the drawing board.

thanks

Henrik

C-Rad

Pinnacle 24 CYO: there's nothing on their site about this being suitable for HPTX but I saw somewhere it is... can someone verify that?

C-Rad

The pinnacle 24 will house the SR-2 with room to spare.  Pics commig over the w/e.  I'm playing around with one now.  Got bored again.  I also have a pedastal 24 arriving tomorrow. :)  More rads or a phase change unit or two will end up in there.
 
Joe
 

geort45

starfish600

Here is a picture of my sr-2 in a coolermaster Cosmos S:

It needs a lot of cable management, but everything is working well so far, and I had almost no trouble installing the board into a cosmos s. All you need to do is to double up on the standoffs where the board begins to dip.
I have a thread on Overclock.net about this as well, if anyone is interested.
attached are two shots, one with just the board in and another with the finished product.

LOL you beat me to it, I haven't worked on my Cosmos since weeks ago dammit... Does the cosmos S has the perforations on top for a 3x120 or a 4x120 RAD?
Thx

3x120  

starfish600

geort45

starfish600

Here is a picture of my sr-2 in a coolermaster Cosmos S:

It needs a lot of cable management, but everything is working well so far, and I had almost no trouble installing the board into a cosmos s. All you need to do is to double up on the standoffs where the board begins to dip.
I have a thread on Overclock.net about this as well, if anyone is interested.
attached are two shots, one with just the board in and another with the finished product.

LOL you beat me to it, I haven't worked on my Cosmos since weeks ago dammit... Does the cosmos S has the perforations on top for a 3x120 or a 4x120 RAD?
Thx

3x120mm. And I had to do very little modification to get the board to fit perfectly. Its a very simple modification, if you are interested. Though, as of your last pictures it looked like you had dismantled the case in its entirety. As a matter of fact, this is what it looks like now, after a great deal of cable management:  

Hi!

I had another big board before the SR-2, which used the more "receded" portion of the motherboard plate, in fact that part already had standoff threads and I did use triple standoffs to bring the mobo to the normal height. However going more to the front of the case comes this angled part where the cable holes are, and the height once the inclination ends is a little higher than the main plate:



I guess I could have put the mobo in a slight angle hehe (I had to that once with a mobo that had a heatsink behind the CPU and I had to place a waterblock with another plate, the mobo ended having single standoffs near the back and double standoffs on the opposite edge) using nuts and insulation to separate the mobo from the metal, but since I disliked the lower portion of the Cosmos 1000's bay area I decided to dismantle it completely and make it the same as the cosmos S, and on the way fixing the mobo plate issue. Since I just work on the darn thing from time to time, I see a lot of mods in the meantime haha so I keep considering more modifications to the case, which further delays its completion :P. I plan all this in solidworks so its kinda fun and "addictive" to see how it will turn up...

If you already have photos of the minor mods you did to fit the SR-2 it'd be interesting to see anyway :)

Thanks!

Edit: I saw your other thread and saw the double standoffs, however I can't see what did you do to the rightmost edge of the mobo, doesn't the mobo touch the horizontal part? The upper view is like this:
                  ____
_________|       \_

Does it touch the red portion :)?

Yeah, I should have better pics up in the next few days. There really were no special tools. The extent of the mod was making sure the board was supported as well as not touching the metal on the right side of the board.  Just like geort45 said, or rather displayed, with his diagram, you double up on standoffs on the right side of the case. I used the standard standoff spots which I believe were for E or xl-atx boards on the rightmost part of the motherboard tray.
So the left side of the board would have regular standoffs screwed in the case. Then in the middle I used a few layers of the double sided foam tape to support the few places where there were not holes for stand offs, and on the right side of the board there were double standoffs used, which made the board clear the divot which is in the case from the motherboard tray to the drive bay area. 

Hey Guys,  I just wanted to say "Thank You" to all of you who have been posting in this thread.  I'm presently building a custom wooden computer case for the SR-2, and your insights, suggestions, critiques, etc. have been great input in helping with my design.  Keep them coming!

It's a fine case, but $400 for a mass-produced aluminum box is highway robbery. It doesn't have any special features that justify the price, and while the SR-2 fits in it, there is so little extra room around the motherboard area that there is basically no room for cable management.

I don't like the V2120.. You know, I've had the V2110 before, a great case, even as the silencing mats werent the best ones.

It had innovative features and worked like a charm.
 
The V2120, same as the "TYR"-Cases, is in my eyes "modern crap"... has some "features" like toolless design (hey, sorry, I want stable and trustproof screws, not plastic holders!), USB 3.0 over external loopback cable, ...
 
And some features of the V2110 which were great are missing..
 
Thats the reason why I bought the P80R, it's like a combination of the V2110 and the V2120 with a special design and some unique features. Still easy to mod and change, compared to some plastic bombers.
 
If the V2110 would have a fitting tray (and thats the main problem of that thing) without the need to basically cut off half the case for the SR-2, then I would still use it..

The TYRs are a fail in my opinion.

You loose most of the room and balance of the case itself, its getting shorter and higher (not improving the standing stability either) and you can hardly change things to fit your needs (this thing is a BIG tower with not even the possibility to mount 2 x 5x3,5"-in-3x5,25"-HDD-Swapbackplanes..
 
Some of the "Toolless"-Designs are indeed out of aluminium, but still not half as reliable as screws.. Did you look on the aluminium switch-lock for the PCI Cards? Aluminium-rubber-Holder for PSU? HDD silencer fittings?
 
Sure, theyre nice for silencing and "quick removal" but seriously, if my tower weights 8 Kgs empty and 30 full, I wouldnt trust a little, "snapped in" aluminium bar to hold my watercooled GTX480 or 4Kg~ PSU. And if it breaks loose, the thing works exactly like a flipper ball. Destroying everything.

The Thumbscrews from the Lian Li Cases (I have them myself) are made out of Aluminium. And thumbscrews to screw a mainboard in position is a fingerbreaking task (even more on enthusiasts mainboards..). I don't trust the aluminium thumbscrews either - theyre not made out of 7075 Aluminium. ;) I change them against stainless steel screws, this way I can be sure, they keep the weighty things in place.
 
The HDD silencers and fan silencers are indeed a nice thing (theyre not "toolless" in my opinion because you still have to screw the "thumbscrews" with a driver instead of fingers to keep them in place), but before I move the rig I would still secure them with the additional third screws in the middle.. you wouldnt like your 6 x 2 TByte RAID6 bumping around in the case...
 
Dual PSU Mounting is a nice thing.. but I guess with this big of a mainboard tray its not easily possible (would mean bigger measures).
 
About the USB 3.0 Re-Routing: Dumbest thing ever imho. Who would attach a USB 3.0 device on the front of the case? Usually you attach like USB sticks, keyboards, USB-Headsets, Mp3-Players and such.. and the cheapest USB 3.0-SSDlike Memorystick costs more than a SSD those days..
 
There's no reason to attach external HDDs to USB 3.0, if the Rig has eSATA either.. sure, its "future-proof" but if you buy a $400 or more case, I guess you like the style.. and not some loopback-cables on the back.. (okay, I have one myself, too - for the soundcard, a HDMI Loop, but that thing has actually a daily function ;) ).
 
But anyways, I guess everyone has a different sight on those things. I have Lian Li Cases since alot of years and always liked the sleek, functional and timeless elegant lines and the perfect workmanship. Not "outstanding Features", "windows", "Glowing fans" or something like that. 
 
Btw, this is probably the wrong thread for this discuss but it could still inform people interested in a case for the SR-2 about advantages and disadvantages. And don't take it as a attack, I'm just expressing my feelings about the way Lian Li goes.. the old way was better..

Nice Case, jrmitchell, but the price is somewhat.. uh..

jrmitchell1983

http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=103_765&products_id=29239

Total waste of money now that the PC-V2120 is out.  And EisWolf, nothing is stopping you from using screws on the PC-V2120.