I am interested in your build, just ordered my SR-2 today 7/1/11 and I am putting it in a Thermaltake Xaser VI case which is 26 inches deep and 9.8 inches wide, it is only slitely higher than your case but it is almost an inch and a half deeper than your case which 23.6 deep and 9.6 inches wide, so it should allow me a smidge of extra room . I am going with 2 power supplies, a Thermaltake 1200 watt for motherboard and video and an Athena 400 watt for all the fans, hard drives and dvd drives. frozenCPU.com had an adapter that will allow me to start both power supplies at same time and that should be here Thursday or Friday. CPU's and other stuff gets ordered Tuesday
7/5 Build should be ready by mid August. I just can't wait to get this beast running.
One extra note, the inside of your case is exactly the same as the Xaser VI but not as deep, same motherboard tray, drive cage, and bottom vents. I took apart an older Antec full tower case and used the 2 support beams for the power supply to fabricate a bracket to hold the second radiater and extra case fan. I took off the bottom plate from an old CD drive and mounted an 92 mm exhaust fan and
the Athena power supply, it takes up 3 5.25 drive bays in front but looks and works great. Will take photos as soon as board arrives and I get to use the tooless mounting hardware to mount it. I love these builds where one has to use the little grey cells as Agatha Christi say's, and my wife loves getting my old hardware which to her is an upgrade.

The only place I think I am going to need to improvise is the depth of the motherboard tray where it meets the hard drive cage. It looks like the 24 pin power plug goes behind it about 1/4 of an inch. However, since the side panels stick out the back on each side, I am making a spacer to move the motherboard 1/2 inch to the rear. Since I have about 2 inches to play with, it won't even be seen. Will be putting a brace across the underneath side of the motherboard tray to replace the funky plastic brace that comes stock. The braces I have made for the second radiator, and the first radiator that is installed where the exhaust fan on the mother board tray is now. I made another set of foot rails that attach to the bottom rails on either side to raise the case up 1 inch, giving me room to mount 2 big intake fans blowing air into the case at the bottom, (outside the bottom) of the case, then the radiater fans (2 on each radiator mounted in a push pull setup) will bring outside air into the case and the front and top fans will exhaust air out the front and top for best air flow. I have 2 cooling fan setups on each bank of ram to help cool them. Ordered the tap and die and the T handle for the standoffs and an extra bag of standoffs from amaxon for under 15 bucks. There is an 80 mm fan on the Athena power supply mounted in the bottom drive bays and I added a 92 mm fan to the bracket to help get hot air from the power supply out of the case. If you have any more pointers let me know as the inside configuration of your case is the twin of mine. I got the Xaser VI from Newegg on sale and have never regretted it. One more question, what cpu did you get. Being retired, and on a fixed income, 5680's were out of the question, but since this rig will be for Video editing and the one game I play, $589.99 ea. for 2 5645's from Newegg looked lots better than 2 or 3 thousand bucks. Once again, thanks for the tips. One more thing, you can move the motherboard tray out the back of the case, just make a spacer the thickness needed and the brass motherboard standoffs fit in the tray holes and then just add the spacer and longer screws to get the edge of the SR-2 out from behind the drive cage. No one is going to look back there anyway. Just make a bracket to mount the plastic motherboard support clip the same distance to the rear.
 

Well, got the rest of the stuff ordered today Tuesday July 5th, Sunbeam fan controller, Athena 400 watt psu, 2 e5645 xeons, Thermaltake 1200 watt psu, 2 watercoolers, and a couple of Asus dvd recorders. That makes the list complete. Also ordered an HD camera to document the build, will also post pic's with my Canon dslr and a movie to YouTube. I really do not like cutting up my case if I can help it and since I am mounting the second PSU in the bottom three 5.25 inch drive bays, I have to retain the HD cage. With this case, I think that by moving the mobo tray back about 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch, I wont have to cut anything. The old Antec full tower case is giving up all it's guts for extra sheet metal for this build, and a tech station that I am building, using a 480 watt psu, hard drive cage from the bottom of The Xaser VI, that I removed to put in an extra fan, a case switch from an old HP case, one of the Asus sata dvd recorders, an 80 mm fan to cool the hard drive cage and it will be topped off with a piece of plexy that I will use the extra standoffs and the drill and tap I ordered from Amazon. I even used the front usb and sound connectors from the old Antec case so I can leave the mouse and keyboard plugged in. I got tired of having motherboards I am testing, spread all over my work bench and it will elimenate the risk of shorting something out. Could get a tech station online for $135.00 but I will have about $40.00 bucks invested in the one I am building. When I post pictures, you can guess what I recycled for the double decker frame for the tech station:) How about posting more pic's of your computer when you get further along with it, looks great so far and who cares how you do it as long as it works.

Look guys, I agree metal is better to a point, but some plastic is a must in today's economy, I used to build race cars in my youth and everything was made of metal, and cost an exorbitant amount of money to fabricate. To be even the least bit affordable some plastic is needed, all metal cases would all look exactly the same, some variation on the square box. Newegg for instance has 33 separate manufacturers and without plastic front bezels, you could not tell them apart. I chose for my main rig an Xaser VI Thermaltake case as it had a metal front door and less plastic pieces than most cases. Lots of people do not like the small plastic switch cover but I have not had an ounce of problems in over a year and a half with both my Xaser VI cases. As for gritting my teeth when I build an all plastic case for one of my clients, I remind myself that I run a business and I cater to the custom build crowed. If I want to stay in business, I build whatever they want and make sure I put in writing that the case was the customers choice and that if it grenades in a week or more it is between the manufacturer and the customer and I am not involved past getting their check cleared as fast as possible and to smile when I cash it.

Hi crc454,
I agree that on the "normal case market" plastic is widely used to put some differences in style at cheap prices but in the area 300-500$ or even more (which mostly are bought by enthusiasts, collectors, people who want to fit the computer case in high quality living room equipment), they can use aluminium without that much of a raising price.
 
I use even carbon plates and pipes sometimes to modify things, it's not as if they are too expensive to be used, its only a problem to work with them (drilling cfk or gfk needs a dust safe case and such, because it's dangerous to get the dust of the materials in the lungs, like "asbests" in earlier times).
 
But the thing is, I don't like cases which "look like customized in a very cheap way with alot of plastic" from factory, lets say, cheaply fitted, engraved windows, 93883274 (literally) fan holes, plastic mould features on every corner and such, they all just "hide the usual steel rectangular tower".
 
That's why I prefer a sleak, clean aluminium tower (and Lian Li makes really quality stuff, if I compare it to other factorys, I had alot of Lian Li Towers in the past and like 1/20 of their cases even has a micro scratch, the other 19/20 not even had any scratch, finger print or dust!), even if they are "just rectangular black cases".
 
If I want them to be outstanding, I mod them myself, so that's no problem for me. An bigger problem would be those "factory default modding stuff"-things, they make it even harder to modify the case itself in my opinion.
 
But as I said, it's everyones decision. Same with living room equipment: Most people buy no "real wood" anymore but fake press/squeezed wooden pieces which are just layered with one sheet of very thin real wood at top. This is cheaper and works fine, but I love paying some more money and getting things out of real wooden plates. It's up to everyone what he wants and buys, but I sometimes wish there would be more choices on the market, like in earlier times (1910 - 1930 = no "fake-wood", 99% real wood or glue wood things).

well, everything is finally here.Have motherboard into mobo trayUsing my wife's Xaser VI for all the fitting for the board and trayeven with the tray setback, about an inch, the door comes right to the edge and with some black screening I have it will be neat and tidy. one thing that is a real help is my 20 year box of screws, I have collected this oneand one more just like it, that was a lot of computer builds. Well more to come in the next few days, any advice would be helpful. The box of screws was very neat, but the wife knocked it off a table onto the floor and I haven't had time to put everything in the proper size sections.

Would the SR-2 fit in the upcoming CM Cosmos II?
 
There are 10 pci-e slot and from the look of it, it should fit but the spec. doesn't say anything about HPTX.
 

Lian li seems to have 2 other cases that I did not see mentioned here:

 
           
PC-P80N and PC-Z70 (left and middle) along with the well-known PC-V2120 (to the right)
 
They are specified as HPTX. does that mean the SR-2 will fit nicely in those 3?

strob

Lian li seems to have 2 other cases that I did not see mentioned here:


         
PC-P80N and PC-Z70 (left and middle) along with the well-known PC-V2120 (to the right)

They are specified as HPTX. does that mean the SR-2 will fit nicely in those 3?

PC-P80 was already compatible. P80N has the PSU at the bottom (P80: top), it has 2x 140mm exhaust on top (P80: 1x).
The Z70 also fits, but looks like poor airflow to me (again).
V2120 is in 3 flavors and is nice, but bad airflow and for such a big case not so many (internal) liquid cooling options. Crazy expensive.
 

theawesomemanful 

What about the  

Xigmatek Elysium?

 

Please read the thread. It is compatible. (Formfaktor: ATX, HPTX, E-ATX, XL-ATX, Micro-ATX)
 
My is arriving today. I will be mounting a Black Ice GTX 480mm radiator at the top. Dennis Mini, the Cubitek rep has helped me a great deal. He told me that a 360mm radiator is a straight fir but that a 480mm one will fit at the cost of one 5.25"  (I don't run opticals). Also, he has measured top to motherboard tray to be 113mm so I have ordered a  to have more clearance if necessary. (BIX is 54mm thick and a push/pull adds 50mm so I'm at 104mm total plus 2x TC 120.4 gaskets... it will be close!)
Will be running EK SR-2 block and 2x EK Supreme HF, both acetal tops. Now I have to wait for my SR-2 to get back from RMA (keeps corrupting BIOS on cold boots... sometimes )

The "I have ordered  a" should be "I have ordered a Koolance shroud" (yuk, Koolance lol) but have already canceled it as it will not fit the HPTX TANK top. Will be using a 480mm fan grill from IT Service (BEL) or WCUK (GB).
Awesome case, planning WC build further. If anyone wants certain photos: let me know (case has been delivered and not yet chopped up).
 
One thing I have to say: build quality is good (solid alu case) and VERY modular. Good job Cubitek 
 
@theawesomemanful: Yes I am an EVGA noob lol :D But I now understand your question as some sites don't speak of HPTX for the Elysium! Caseking (DE) has HPTX in description but is this a newer revision perhaps? Or are other sites/shops too lazy to lookup the correct info? 
 
Kind regards

Will it fit in the Antec 1200 at all? As long as I can fit my SLI cards, and PCI-e 1.0 soundcard in, I'll be happy but I didn't know how the mounts line up.

anyone know if you can buy a rackmount 3U case like this one that APPRO setup for their HF1 overclocked server???

Mis Post

http://www.enermax.com.tw...ng/press_b_1&no=17
 
There is a new case for SR-2. I've been told that it will release at the end of this month.

NewEgg now has a 20% off sale going on for the month of October on Lian Li cases. Like before, you have to have a NewEgg login to get the discount (LLOctDeal). For example, the V2120B is now down to $303.99 with free ground shipping.
 
@Moderator: I'm not sure if I should be posting this info, so delete this post, if it's against forum rules. There are so few cases in which the SR-2 fits without modification, that I thought that any deal on a case like this might be useful to post.