Originally Posted by
prava
The usability of this case is terrible, seriously. As of late that is the very same problem all Lian Li cases are exhibiting: fantastic aesthetics and materials... but not a thoughtful usability. And I don't want to sound disrespectful or anything, but the fact is that Lian Li cases aren't aren't as recommended as they were before, simply because they lack the ability to accommodate properly modern hardware.
What am I talking about? For starters, the ability to be able to include, AT LEAST, a CLC that features a 240mm rad in big cases, or a 120mm one in smaller ones.
In this particular unit, I have no idea why are you including filters in the spots where the fans aren't placed... when all the fans are sucking air into the case and, thus, all dust will be kept inside (filters on parts where there won't be any fans only makes sense on negative-pressure cases), not to say the fact that there are 4 fans aiming at the HDD's (when they aren't actually that sensitive, not to that point).
I don't know, I love the aesthetics of the Lian Li products... but I see so many compromises and things that haven't been properly thought about that I can't get to buy one without having to mod the crap out of it, and although that is part of the hobby, one shouldn't have to mod a case just to install, lets say, a Corsair H100i.
IMO, you should do far more research into what hardware put people into their cases, and try to make it easier for users to get such hardware into place, and not harder. Also, It wouldn't hurt if you checked the simple mods people do to their Lian Li cases (for starters, to add a top fan on the AWESOME Lian Li A05, a classic on its own... and not make a "weird" non-inverted version that makes no sense to me, since doing so didn't fix anything), because doing so will give you a very valuable (and free) information about what people needs, and the lengths people will make to get such beautiful cases as the ones you sell into proper usable cases.
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