| After releasing one thumb screw the
side panel can be removed. Inside the case you find a lot of space for
your precious hardware. The eight slot bezels are held in place by a
very practical and high quality clamping mechanism. Each of the eight slot bezels can be removed by releasing the corresponding thumbscrew. If you'd like to install a very long graphic card
as for example a
Radeon HD 5970 this isn't a problem at all thanks to the cases
comfortable depth. Also with the side panels you'll find perfectly
brushed aluminium as well as perfect fitting. At this point we have to mention even the case is not cheap, the quality shows all it's benefits. If we remove the side panel, we find lots of space to install hardware. All together you can install up to
eight 3.5'' and four 5.25'' drives. |
The sidepanels are manufactured from
aluminium which is two mm thick and on the inside of them they are equipped with noise absorbing materials.
Up to eight hard drives can be installed easily with the special screws delivered with the case. Once the screws are
fixed tightly you can simply slide the hard drive until it fits. The SATA backpanel does not have any
kind of controller on the PCB. Therefore a compatible motherboard with RAID and SATA Hotswap functionality is needed. |
| If you're a person who like to wire you PC neatly
you'll definitely like the fact that Lian Li provided the X2000FB with
several holes in the motherboards tray. This will let you do the wiring
on the backside of the motherboard tray. The only thing which might not
come in very handy is the cases sheer size when you're plugging in the
12 Volt ATX connector. You'd need to own a power supply which comes with
an extra long 12 Volt ATX cable. |
Oversized Graphic cards can be fixed with additional plastic brackets on the aluminium truss with the screws delivered with the case. This makes sense when the case needs to be transported. The disadvantages of the aluminium truss can cause problems when connecting the powercable to the graphics-cards. The aluminium truss can simply be removed over four thumbscrews to get more space for other installations.
Generally the X2000FB offers you a lot of space to comfortably install
hardware. If you're looking for cable management this can also be done
neatly using the benefit of the different holes in the motherboard tray. |
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