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Lian Li PC-6070

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The Pentium Guy

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Any guys have a Lian Li PC-6070? What are your opinions?
I read the anandtech review, and googled about 4-5 different reviews...

What do you guys think? I heard it it's very quiet, but you sacrifice cooling for quietness... is it really all that bad?

The Antec P-180 is coming out very soon (next month) and is in the same price range and looks vey similar actually. Should I get that? (I have time, don't worry about that).

Here's the link to the P-180:
http://www.silentpcreview.com/news452.html


-The Pentium Guy
 
This is the case I'm using for my system right now, it's a great case. It's pretty quiet stock, the only case I've heard that?s better stock is the Sonata. If you?re looking for a relatively quiet case it should be fine stock, but if you?re trying to attain levels of near silence you may have to swap the stock fans, or run the fans at reduced speeds.

The case dose use 80mm fans so cooling won't be as good as the better cases using 120mm fans but it dose a good job of keeping my moderately hot system cool, it actually runs cooler with the panels closed vs. open.

From what I've seen of the P-180 and other Antec cases I'd go with the Lian-Li, the all AL construction is worth it in my opinion.
 
If you are dead set on quiet, I would wait on the 180. In addition it probably will be cooler. I have gotten a look at several of the Lian-Li cases in the PC-6XXX and -7XXX range. They are all well built, relatively cool cases. What makes the 6070 more "silent" is one 80mm fan in the rear instead of two, no top fan, and the front door. Thats basicly it. I would not consider running an SLIed or OCed rig in this case. Thats why its good for water and vapor cooling. Its my impression that the 180 has been designed with the idea of quiet in mind. For example, that's one reason the PSU is on the bottom. Of course it has the front door but its not just a tack on. In addition you can run four 120 mm fans if you wish in addition to two internal places for chassis fans. It will be interesting to see what the 180 will cost. In general, Antec's cases are not as nice and finished on the inside as Lian-Li's

I wanted a fast SLI machine so I needed cool, but I also wanted it to be as quiet as possible. I chose to go with another Lian-Li, the PC-6077. (I really don't like front doors.) I know some people don't like the all bay front that it and other cases like the CMStacker have. I plan to get the quiet by changing all the case fans, gpu, cpu and chip fans to more quite versions. If I could have waited I might have gotten the 180 but I am really starting to like the 6077.
 
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