Lian Li PC-V1020 Review

👤by David Mitchelson Comments 📅28-04-11
Interior

With the side panels off and exterior tour complete, lets move inside for a close look. First of all, I just love the colour-scheme Lian Li have gone with here. Typically the motherboard tray and prominent regions have a polished aluminium appearance but with the red version we have a lovely black coating and it works really well with the red. As you can see from the images, the interior is very roomy and has tool-less mechanisms throughout. The PSU area has a shelf to separate the unit from system components.


Prominent side panel off showing a fantastic black/red colour-scheme



Behind the motherboard tray lots of open space to route cables


The PSU seating area is set out rather differently than the usual case. The PC-V1020 requires the PSU to slide in from the rear panel side. It will then sit within the bracket. Further towards the front there is what Lian Li call a "cable clamp" this allows us to order the cabling in a tidy manner. The front panel cables can be seen within the cable clamp in the picture below, but typically you would arrange redundant PSU cables here for example. The PSU region is actually separated from the motherboard components with a shelf, I do like this idea as it keeps things tidy. There are mounting holes on this shelf to allow a 2.5" device to be installed such as an SSD.


PSU region with cable clamp


Moving up, we have 8 expansion slot covers. Each cover has ventilation for better airflow. The expansion slots are fixed in place via thumbscrews for quick and easy installation.


8 expansion slots with ventilation and thumbscrews


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