Intro

I'll never forget a couple of years ago when a young forum member who I was mentoring with his first mod asked me this question; "Who's that Lian Li guy with all the cases in the gallery?" After I finally stopped laughing long enough to reply, I explained that the reason that there are so many of them in the gallery is because Lian Li isn't a guy, it's a company that manufactures high end, quality computer cases. I told him that comparing a Lian Li to say, a Foxconn, is like comparing a Rolex to a Timex. He felt sheepish, but he now knew why this Lian Li guy had so many nice cases in the gallery.

The Lian Li PC-6070 has been out for a while now and is a mid-tower produced with noise reduction in mind. Lian Li still had a few tricks up their sleeve to improve the performance of this model though, so they redesigned the PC-6070 and added some extra cooling abilities; hence the PC-6070 Plus name. I'll introduce the PC-6070's basic features for those of you who haven't seen this case up close and personal before, and then get into the new features that makes the PC-6070 Plus different from it's standard counterpart.

Package

The case arrived in a newly designed box that carries the "Plus" moniker on to differentiate this model from the standard model. The normal Styrofoam caps were used and the case was encased in plastic. Lian Li kindly included a pamphlet advertising some of their other cases that are available. I don't know about you all, but if I just purchased a Lian Li, I probably am not going to have funds for a second anytime soon. There were three White boxes tucked away inside the case, we'll call these mystery parts and I'll cover them later.

Case Exterior

As with all Lian Li cases, the lines are classic and clean. The exterior is brushed aluminum with little to break up the flowing lines of the case. The front door is exceptional, I've never seen a door with aluminum so thick, it feels almost 1/8th inch thick. There isn't a door lock on the front cover but if there was, someone would play hell to try to get in there. The door has a nice smooth convex curve with some lines cut into the right side to help with opening and closing. One complaint about the side panels, when I pulled the thumbscrews off and attempted to slide the door to the rear, it wouldn't budge. There are no extruded edges on the back to get a grip on either. With a steel case I would just normally slap the side with some rearward force, but I didn't want to attempt that with the aluminum doors. I ended up having to get a small screwdriver to slip under the back edge to get the doors to pop free, then they came right off. This was a problem every time I replaced the doors and used the thumbscrews, then went to remove the doors again. The guides on the bottom of the door are very tight.

The accent molding at the top and bottom looks like carbon fiber and blends in perfectly with the case. The only ports available on the front of the case are two USB ports at the bottom. Honestly, that's pretty much all I ever use anyway. The power and HDD activity lights are super bright LED's (Blue and Red respectively) that are attached to the case and not the door. The light gets to the door by using clear plastic tubes that sit over the LED's when the door is closed. This causes a little color bleed-over when viewed from an angle, but not anything that is distracting.