Lian Li PC-767 Aluminum Case

Located on the lower right front of the case are the front access ports.  There’s one 1394 (Firewire), 2 USB 2.0, a headphone port and a microphone port.

One thing that I didn’t notice right off was that the motherboard rests on the right hand side of the case, as opposed to the usual left.  This is because the motherboard is mounted upside down in the case.  This keeps the components that create the most heat near the bottom of the case.  The air-flow is directed through the lower part of the case to keep these cool.  As we all know, heat rises, so this may not exhaust all possible heat from the case leaving some case ventilation work to the power supply.

Here we find the rear of the Lian Li PC-767.  Starting at the top, you’ll notice the power supply area.  There is a removable PSU mounting plate using thumbscrews to hold the PSU in place.  Just below this you find the card expansion areas.  There are a total of seven slots that you could fill in, and off to the side is more grilling to allow even more airflow.  Below this is a second 120mm fan.  With one 120mm fan on the front, and another on the back, I can imagine some nice airflow moving through here.

The expansion slot and case fan section of the back end of the PC-767 is held in place with thumb screws.  Initially, I thought this may be linked to a removable motherboard tray.  After removing it completely, and looking at the connections that held the motherboard tray to the rest of the case, I realized it was definitely not.  This is one thing that I was disappointed not to find included in this case.  This removable rear panel however, is here for you if you wish to install a BTX compatible system down the road. 

So, from what I’ve seen thus far, this does look like a nice case.  I’d like to install some stuff in it to see just how nice it is.  First though, let’s have a look at its insides.  Included with the case was a large bag of screws, a small Phillips head screw driver, two plastic wire holders with sticky backs, two zip ties, another bag of motherboard mounting screws and all the wires that you should need. 

As far as the front panel wires are concerned, the often glorified way Lian Li puts an in line plug of sorts on the panel wires allowing the end user to unplug all the panel wire connections at once, was absent.  This was disappointing but very very few companies do that in the first place so we can’t fault them for it.

 

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