Lian-Li V2000B+

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Well might as well kick this section off

Got this case last year, had started looking for an old style CM Stacker (STC-T01)
but someone suggested looking at lian-li. I'd previously thought them over priced & overated. However a bit of digging soon showed that the v2000 had more drive bays & potential, for around the same £ as the CM830.
Was very pleased with the case.

Have added 2 blowholes Blowhole guide and it's in answer to :-

GSte
Aye, looks good, got any pictures of the final case when assembled?

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Clunk
All that was left was a hole

that your suffering my pics Muhahahah.

Review of case
Lian Li PC-V2000B Plus Full Tower ATX Case Review


When I switched to water cooling I didn't want to lose any hard drives, so placing the radiator in the bottom was out. Placing it internally in the top would mean the top of the mobo would be hidden behind the radiator. So I decided to place radiator on the roof, using the original blow hole(2nd didn't exist)

The radiator is secured to a 120mm fan casing, which in turn is secured to the case.


This worked well but the air exhausted from the frontmost fan just hit the top of the case and so wasn't particulalry efficient.

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So I did the second blowhole & made 2 shrouds. The shrouds have the advantage of giving more variation fan mounting & using the supposed optimum distance between fan & radiator.

The top Shroud holds 3 fns blowing down onto radiator. The bottom shroud holds 2 fans pulling air away from radiator, into the top of the case. For those of you who don't use water cooling , the air coming from the radiator isn't that much warmer than ambient, it's nowhere near the temp of the air coming from an air cpu cooler. The alternative reversing the flow with 2 fans blowing upward and 3 fans pulling, isn't as efficient. As a rough rule ogf thumb pulling fans are about 50% as effective as pushing ones. so 3xpush + 2xpull = 4fans compared to 3xpull + 2xpush = 3.5fans.

Made the shrouds using a bending press.
Got a roll of neophane to act as a gaskets. Shroud made from 2mm aluminium sheet.
Have made them modular so that assembly & mounting is easier (minimises danger of putting a screw through the rad:lol)

Top 3xShroud Components


Bottom 2x Shroud
Ends Bolt in to Sides.

Sides have mounting holes to Case and Radiator, in line with standard 120mm fan holes.


Intake Fans & Filters mounted to top panel. (has the option of mounting fans internally or externally so giving an option to change distance to radiator


Fitting together
3xside to radiator, fit both sides then screw on top with fans, lastly insert ends.

giving


Mounting 2xshroud to radiator

2x Side showing holes to secure to case



Fitted to case

View from rear of case before putting in ends.

Secured to case
Wanted to save my fingers when playing in case so fitted the fan guards

If ever I don't water cool my gfx card these intakes should help cooling it.

So that's the shroud now the case

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Full Frontal - Taken the other day whilst i was changing tubing round the CPU~Gfx & Gfx~Rad connections round on the graphics card. I'm using my spare psu to leak test for a while to check the graphics connections.


Motherboard Bay - Motherboard is inverted ATX. It's efficient if air cooling having the grapics card at the top helps cooling , that's why i added the original blowhole. The downside is if using a large after market cooler like a thermalright Ultra 120 there's not a lot of room, particularly if you have a mobo with the cpu socket close to the edge of the board. I've modded my shelf lowering it a bit (about 3~4Cm) , giving room to mount any big cooler, then i switched to water cooling I made sure that I retained the option to have upper & lower mount points for PSU. THe space waspretty well wasted.


Lower Mobo Compartment Rear Exhaust fan to right.

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Top Of mobo Compartment with the 2x120mm intakes from the lower shroud.




Looking towards Fromt Intake fan, (needs a clean, another go with Mothers PowerMetal , wife thinks it's for the car) The card secured on the right of the fan is my mCubed T-Balancer bigNG - which automatically controls all fans.

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Front
Bays from the top :-
Water Resevoir
Floppy
CD/DVD
Scythe KAMA-BAY Black System Cooler Holds Loony fan see above for interior shot. Lower fan is 120mm intake to drive bays.


Rear
PSU Mounting plate has been made to better fit a psu on the upper mounting point. The original one can be inverted but that puts the psu upside down as well so I made one.
The original has 2x 80mm fan mountings . I tried a fan in one but frankly it's overkill, so i didn't bother in my version.


Close up of reare fan & Gigabyte I/O Panel


Upper Rear with Cut Out made gor WC Tubing Air from rear Radiator Fan has a pretty clean exit path out of the radiator.

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Hard Drive Compartment - Capacity 12 drives, currently usin 6, 4x hitachi Sata II 80gb in matrix raid array, 500gb + 320gb data drives.
Front


From rear side of case


PSU Compartment

Mounting Panel
Another advantage from making my own was i could move the psu a little towards the rear side of the case rather than dead centre, this gives a little more room for the water pump. I made a shelf as you can see to support the psu, this mimicks the bracket used by Lian-Li. Thinking about it I could have mounted psu on it's side with the 140mm fan facing outward.. That may be a little project for anither day

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The case comes fitted with a shelf that the psu sits on if mounted in the lower position. When not in use it's a bit of a pain so i prefered it removed, giving more room to place the water pump.The pre formed cable holes are ideal for routing tubing without causing any restrictions.

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Sidepanel
The sidepanels are very big & very black,. I have added 2x120mm intakes which cover the memory, cpu & mossfets


The logo was a bit of a bugger to do , but worth it I think


Sundry
Oh gollocks these were left so might as well add 'em

Side From Rear


From Front


For a classy finish the backside


Th...Th.. That's All Folks

[lethial]

Nice mods!

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Cheers Lethal

[Sean_B]

Thats serious mate - I like your cowls too - gonna have a crack at mounting my rad to the case at some stage, have it lying on the floor in a cool draft.
Do you leave the case side open? I'm having to at the moment coz there's dead heat spots I've found by hooking up a few temp probes.