The latest midtower from the stable of the Taiwanese manufacturer Lian Li is the PC-100. As usual, the black body is the mainly of aluminium built, but the motherboard is the other way round in the housing oriented lwa nteerd.
Where the i/o shield of the motherboard, normally on the back of the case is available, is that in the PC-100 Lian Li is exactly the opposite. The ports are at the front, behind a cover, accessible, what is the ease of use must improve. However, there is space between the front of the housing to cables to carry away. The power is in the top placed, while the a lot of high-end housings at the bottom is to find.
In the separate design are also the drivecages for hard drives and ssd’s to the back, moving the 5.25″drives, two in total, are still on the front accessible. The drivecage is in the PC 100 a flat piece of metal, to which three disks front and rear can be mounted. The separate design of the airflow, and thus cooling, in the housing benefit.
The cooling consists of two uitlaatventilators of 140mm at the back and a single 120mm-intake at the front, which is protected with a removable and washable dust filter. The case is suitable for atx motherboards and slightly larger versions; there are eight expansion slots available. The PC-100 is not equipped with frontpanel-connectors, since the i/o panel all front accessible. The housing got a suggested retail price of $ 199.
