Lian Li CLASSICAL SERIES PC-A10A

Advantages: Clean Sleak lines, lightweight aluminium construction, quality finish... I could go on.
Disadvantages: Non-removable mother board tray

...x 5"1/4 Drive Bays, 3x 3"1/2 Internal drive bays, 2x 3"1/2 External drive bays & 7x expansion slots and also has: 2x USB, 1x Firewire, 1x Headphone &1x Microphone at the front of the case for easy access. Inside the case there are the minimum of sharp edges to cut yourself on. One thing I noticed that's lacking is a removable motherboard tray - this would have been a nice feature. Lian offer bezels to blend in your CD drives and floppy disk drives that are again of very high quality. They also offer a side window panel that allows you to put cold cathode lighting to put on display the internals of the case The power supply and side panels can be removed by the use of 'thumb screws' which mean that you don't need to get the screw driver out every time you want to have a look inside the case. To summarise: this case is a very... Read review

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Advantages: excelent design, great airflow, well built
Disadvantages: price although worth the money

...I have had this case for a few months now, I have built 2 PCs in this case. When building PC's i usally go for the cheapest case because ive never seen the case as being important to the computer. Although all this changed when i purchased this case (orignally because it looked good). Building the PC in the case was a piece of cake, no jagged edges or awkard paces to get to. It came with alot of screws and feet etc. The build quality of this case is amasing. Also the design is amasing with a motherboard tray which can be slid out which means u can attach the motherboard outside of the case and then put the slider back into the case. Also a HDD caddy that can be removed to fix hard drives then replaced with ease. It comes with 4 case fans (2 front, 1 back and 1 top) these are standard fans and you may want to replace... Read review

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Advantages: Space, looks, design, build quality, ease of use
Disadvantages: Cost, no removable motherboard tray, no blowhole

...Lian Li have been at the forefront of the popularisation of the aluminium PC case for a number of years now. Recently, a selection of other manufacturers, Coolermaster et al, have brought aluminium cases to market, but Lian Li remain one of the premium brands in this market space, So why consider aluminium? Well, firstly it's lighter than steel - so cases made of this material are much easier to move around when compared with a 'standard' case (great for LAN party-goers who regularly transport their PC). Secondly, it can look great. This may seem a trivial reason, but when one considers the gradual movement of PC's out of studies and bedrooms and into living rooms where they may be performing audio/video jukebox duties or acting as DVD players or even hard disk video recorders, then something with a little more aesthetic appeal than... Read review

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