Room For Everyone…
If you happen to own a hard drive that doesn’t conform to those standards, there is an additional hard drive rack at the top of the case. It’ll support up to three drives, and features it’s own cooling fan blowing out the back. Though the rack lacks the convenience of a backplane, it does offer tool-free installation. With some special screws installed, you can easily slide your hard drive of choice in and out. This means it’s now time to touch on the included accessories.
Included Accessories
Lian Li of course included a huge collection of bits and doo-dads with the Lian Li PC-A7010 full tower case. Since this case has so much going on, it needs a lot of parts to get things…going. There is a whole host of screws, including normal screws for mounting hardware, screws and washers for mounting hard drives, extra thumbscrews, and a spare small screw driver to help with some of the finer tasks. Not pictured is the included PCI card holders, a second power supply bracket, and a backplate to support SSI CEB and SSI EEB motherboards. Also not pictured is the paperwork, which includes a concise multilanguage manual, as well as separate catalogues for other cases and accessories in the Lian Li line-up.
Since the goal of the aforementioned hard drive rack is to allow quick and easy swapping of your hard drives, Lian Li has included these simple bolt on handles. The screws used fit into the mounting rails of the rack, and the handle makes it remarkably easy to remove the drive from the rack. Since it’s supposed to be so easy to install a system into this case, I guess we better do just that.
The Hardware List
Well now it’s time to so how much of a high end case the Lian Li PC-A7010 full tower is. To test the case, we installed the following test system into it consisting of the following components:
- Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz Quad Core CPU
- GIGABYTE GA-EP45-DS5 Energy Saver Motherboard
- Corsair Dominator DDR2 4GB PC2-8500 RAM Kit
- ZOTAC GeForce GTX 260 AMP! Edition Video Card
- Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB 10000rpm SATA2 Hard Drive
- Western Digital Caviar SE16 640GB 7200rpm SATA2 Hard Drive
- Thermaltake Toughpower 1000W Power Supply
- Sunbeamtech Core-Contact Freezer CPU Cooler
These components were selected to test every feature and aspect of this case. Testing will consist of running the pertinent components at maximum, and testing the thermal and acoustic properties of the case to see how it stacks up to its contemporaries. That, however, is getting ahead of ourselves. For now I’d like to highlight some of the issues that came up in installation.