Had just assembled mine on the 2120. Just to point out some minor design flaw.
Here's the skeleton view with mobo tray removed, left and right side panel removed:
Yeah it on top of the Ikea office table and damn heavy. After flipping it over and back again a few time, my back aches. This is not the full black but just the outside. Waited 1.5mths for this before my built began yesterday.
The PCI device extender-holder can be removed actually but the entire built bearing 23+/- kg need it for structural purpose. I put it back of course and that the cables can run under it too.
Here's a look at the mobo tray:
11 slots supporting up to 4xSLI/Xfire. A good design for those cable outlets to be protected from sharp edges using plastic shealth.
The SR2 on the mobo tray:
Slotted in the XFX Radeon 5970:
Slide in the tray and guess what? Design flaw #1:
Just a little bit more about 10mm, I could have push the mobo tray all the way in if not for the internal 140mm fan blocking the way. Here comes the beauty of the flaw.
See a close up look. The 24pin ATX socket and IDE socket hitting the fan:
My case is still vertically upright so here's how it looks like. And I thought the designer would have his hand on a piece of SR2 and tested it! I am not ready to sacrifice the 140mm fan..
The solution, flip the fan mount horizontally:
From -
Which you see, the top L-plate is longer than the lower L-plate. Meaning, the mount pushes the fan further towards the rear of the case.
To -
And by flipping it over, we literally pull the fan towards the front and allow the mobo to come in more without changing to smaller fan. However, if you are still running IDE devices, then this will not save you from unblocking the IDE socket. I do not have any IDE devices.
Another sacrifice if you do this, you see that thumb screw locking the 3.5" bay? You will have to forego the thumbscrews (2 of them) and change it to normal hex-head screw use to secure HDDs. Here's how it will look on the tight space:
If you do not change away the thumb-screw, your 140mm fan blade will get caught.
Another issue after moving forward the fan, the ATX connector will block the fan body from being pushed into the self-locking mount/key-hole. To solve that, I shave away a part of the corner of the fan body:
To this:
You can do this easily with an 18mm penknife, shave, not saw. After that, it will sit into the fan mount, lock into the key-hole, all nicely without hindering the ATX connector:
But still, this is no solution for those who need to use the IDE socket badly.
Another flaw I think it could be, or may be not, just need someone to confirm for me.. There's this transistor located after the PCI slot 1 in the picture here:
Now question is, is it come like that, that it is bend towards 2 o'clock? This picture was taken after realising I have to fit on a back plate when using Corsair H50 CPU water-cooler, which means I have to remove the assembly including the GPU on slot 1 and turn the mobo over. I thougt the Radeon caused the transistor to bend like that. Anyone?
The above is meant to share with you my experience working on the Lian Li PC-2120 casing.
I have yet to get the system fire up successfully because of PSU issue.
PSU: Silverstone Zeus ZM1200 (1200W).
If you are not intending to use high end GPU, I think the PSU works fine. As for mine, it did not even shown any thing on screen after power ON. I brough the GPU back to local service center and tested it on the spot with their 850W PSU, the screen shown POST all the way to Windows started and ran FurMark very well. So I guess the 1200W is not just about the power but the design of the 12V rail. It does have the option to switch from 6x12V rail and single 12V rail but that doesn't help either.
I tried disabling one CPU and unplugged the 8pin and 6pin to that CPU, I finally heard the roar of the Radeon's fan which I did not notice it was that loud before that. It just means that the Radeon was not even power up fully before, although I saw some green LED lights inside those black back plate.
Gotta source for a approved PSU for Radeon 5970 AND SR2.. And man, using those 2xwater coolers took up 2x3-pins for the fan from the mobo and 2x3pins for the pump, leaving little for those 4x140mm fans and 1x120mm rear fan.
DT, Singapore.