Lian Li T1 Spider
As expected Lian Lis spider is a beautifully
crafted piece of hardware. There are no sharp edges on which you could cut your
finger during the assembly. Assembly is a good cue because the spider needs to
be built from scratch. All you get is about 20 pieces of aluminium in a very
small box. You should really take some time to put the spider up on its legs. In
my case it took me about an hour until I had everything the way I wanted it.
In the above picture on the right you can see that the legs can be fixed in
different angles. For each leg there are two thumb screws which allow good
flexibility. I decided to choose a very steep angle. Like this the spider
doesn't need to much space on my desktop. The only thing you need to do
therefore is untightening the screws, adjusting the angle and then tighten them
again.
On these pictures you can see that Lian Li also thought
about some neat features. Yes, true, you can't install a lot of drives. In fact
there is space for only one 3.5 inch hard drive and a slim DVD/CD drive. This is
also a reason why I chose this "case" for a desktop system. In this case I
personally only needed to find some space for an SSD. To do some more or less
clean cable routing you find a plastic clamping on the bottom of the motherbaord
and drive tray, which does its job quite well.
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