Lian-Li PC70 Mod

[nbk13nw]

Jadison suggested that I come by for a look. Great site with really good (useful) content. PS... The temps are high on the right side gauge (G3 card) because I forgot to hook up the fan relay for the vid card. Oops! It normally runs out at around 40 C.

Here is a mod on a Lian-Li PC70. Hope you like it.


The Box:
• Lian-Li PC70 Server Tower (Aluminum)
• 10" x 14" Blue Plexiglass windows mod on the side
• Blue Plexiglass window mod on the front side
• 12.5 " Blue Cold Cathode light with On / Off switch mounted on the side
• 9 additional holes ranging from 80mm to 120mm cut out of the case
• All fan wiring was shrouded in shrink tubing and heated to conform then fixed to the case
• 4 USB Ports mounted in the lower front of the case


The Guts of the System:
• Enermax GP651P-VE 550 watt Power Supply
• AMD Athlon 1.4mhz 266 FSB Thunderbird
• Swiftech 462 Rev. A Copper Heat Sink with Sanyo-Denki 80mm
• Epox EP-8K7A+ Mainboard BIOS Rev. 101701
• 512MB Mushkin PC2100 High Performance DDR with Custom Heat Spreaders (2 x 256MB)
• Visiontek GeForce 3 64MB AGP 4X
• Sound Blaster Live 5.1 Platinum with Live Drive IR and remote
• Intel 10 / 100 NIC
• IBM Deskstar 60GIG 7200RPM ATA100 Hard Drive with Japanese Silver Rounded Dual Cables
• Kenwood True 72X CD-R (Stealth) with Japanese Silver Rounded Dual Cables
• TDK VeloCD 8/4/32 CD-RW (Stealth) with Japanese Silver Rounded Dual Cables
• Teac 3 1/2 Floppy (Aluminum bay cover modified to fit) with Japanese Silver Rounded Dual Cables
• PCMods RheoBus Fan Controller with Blue LEDs (Controlling 7 fans)
• Enermax Dual Temperature Sensors (Set into aluminum bay cover)
• 6 x Adda 80mm fans with chrome grilles (Two front as intakes with filters)
• 2 x PanaFlo 92mm fans with chrome grilles (Both as intakes with removable filters)
• 1 x PanaFlo 120mm fan with chrome grilles


The Rest of the Cash:
• Viewsonic Professional Series PF790 Perfect Flat 19" monitor
• Cambridge Soundworks DT-2200 Surround Sound Speakers (5.1)
• Belkin 4-Port USB Powered Hub
• Saitek USB Stick and Throttle Combo (X36F / X35T)
• Gravis USB GamePad x 2
• Belkin Nostromo N50 Gaming Keyboard
• Microsoft Internet Keyboard
• Microsoft USB Optical Intellimouse Explorer
• Linksys 5-Port Fast Ethernet 10/100 Auto-Switch with Uplink Port
• Linksys 1-Port Cable Router
• RatPad Mousing Surface
Operating System and Stuff:
• Windows XP Professional (OEM)
• Office XP 2002 (OEM)
• Lots and lots of games.....

[nbk13nw]

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[nbk13nw]

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[nbk13nw]

Even more?

[nbk13nw]

Internals...

[jadison]

Hey nbk13nw, thanks for joining, Welcome to XtremePcCentral.com! :D

As always, great mods! I love those cases, great designs, and they help on the Temps....maybe I might get one someday, what's the cheapest place you could get one?

Your mods are pretty sleak, how long has the work taken (cumulative)?

Again, Welcome!

-=jd=-

[nbk13nw]

I have found several online retainlers with the case for under $250.00.

So-Trick Computers

http://www.so-trickcomputers.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=S&Product_Code=LL&Category_Code=LL


PCMods

http://www.pcmods.com/details.asp?ProdID=16


Outside Loop Computers

http://www.outsideloop.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=olcomp&Product_Code=PC-70&Category_Code=lianli



NewEgg

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.asp?submit=BROWSE&manufactory=1375


Monarch Computers

http://www.monarchcomputer.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=M&Product_Code=100612&Category_Code=C1


Highspeed PC

http://www.highspeedpc.com/cat20.htm


Directron

http://www.directron.com/pc70usb.html

[Mntsnow]

Thanks for all those links! :)

[Daphoid]

The amusing thing (about the first case posted), is all the unneccsary fans, there's not a lot of stuff in that case that would warrent tons of fans. The four fans that are standard with a Lian-Li PC-70 would be golden in a case like that. Unless you've got some monkey that spews fire out of it's rear that I don't know about :)

[nbk13nw]

At the time... no. Currently I am using 6 Seagate 10K 18.2GB Hot Swap drives on a Compaq 4200 Raid Array Accellerator with the 128MB Accel Pack. These drives alone can generate quite a bit of heat. Besides, it was done because it could be done.

[nbk13nw]

BTW... The pics do not reflect the changes in the system. They are, afterall, over a year old.

[Mntsnow]

I have removed this from your sig as it is not allowed under the rules of the board. Please see the "stickies" forum for more details

Intel 3.06GHZ (400FSB)
Asus Black Pearl
1024 MB Mushkin DDR PC2100
Enermax 550W PSU
Lian-Li PC-70 (DesignComp)
Geforce FX5900
Sound Blaster Audigy Gamer
Lite-On 40/12/24
IBM Deskstar 61.0
6 x Seagate 18.2GB 10K SCSI 3 HS with 4200 Raid Array Accel @ 128MB cache
RheoBus and Dual Temp LEDs

[nbk13nw]

Sorry, It has been awhile since I was around.

[Idigguns]

Very nice Lian-Li! You can see my PC-71 here. (http://ourworld.cs.com/Idigguns/index.html)

[43burnt]

Nice stuff

[NDC]

That's a very nice case indeed. If I had the cash to spend on such a case, I would get a Lian Li PC72SCA Full Tower. Those caes are awesome, but the prices are just way too high...