Installation Impressions

For the about part installing hardware into the Lian Li PC-O5S is a cakewalk, and while there were a few aspects that had me a little confused, I eventually worked it out. As of writing, the case's manual is nonetheless a work in progress (consumer release of this case is slated for adjacent February).

As usual I started by installing the Mini-ITX motherboard. I used the Asrock Z97E-ITX/ac coupled with a Core i5-4690K processor. The motherboard tray does have the recommended big cutting out area that allows for admission to the rear side of the motherboard for installing aftermarket coolers.

Enlightened of this I held of installing the Silverstone Argon AR05 until after the motherboard was in the PC-O5S. This turned out to exist a fault as the pigsty in the motherboard tray didn't properly provide access to rear side of the motherboards CPU socket. As a result I had to remove the motherboard in guild to install the Argon AR05. This was an abrasive discovery but certainly not a deal billow.

With the motherboard, retention, CPU and cooler installed I moved on to the SFX power supply. The Silverstone SX600-1000 was our power planet of choice and with a modular design it made installation a breeze.

The first step involves removing two screws from the PSU bracket so that the power supply can exist attached to the bracket out of the instance. One time that is washed information technology is simply a matter of screwing the PSU bracket back into place with the ability supply already fastened.

What is odd about this blueprint is that the power supply is installed into the example with no external access. Lian Li hasn't included a brusk male person to female inside the case and then that connecting the power can be done easily. This kind of design was implemented in the Silverstone SG10, for example. Here y'all just run a standard ability cord into the case which perchance is not as graceful.

Moving on, the installation process for the 2.v" and three.5" drives is a fiddling tricky as well. The 3.v" drive cage which supports three drives must first be removed from the case before drives tin be installed/removed. This isn't an overly complex procedure only it requires the removal of the glass panel likewise as the rear panel and then another 2 pollex screws.

Installing the drives on the rear of the motherboard tray is much easier equally it only requires the removal of the rear console and and so 4 screws.

The slim optical drive is installed in much the same way and the muzzle that supports the optical bulldoze can also be used to firm a single ii.5" drive instead if preferred.

Side by side nosotros take that horizontally mounted PCIe 3.0 x16 riser bill of fare which supports 190mm long graphics cards with the 3.5" bulldoze cage installed and 310mm long graphics cards with the muzzle removed.

For the purpose of testing and taking some photos, I installed a short GeForce GTX 750 Ti graphics card while leaving the bulldoze muzzle installed, and then a huge Gainward GTX 980 Phantom bill of fare with the cage removed. Certainly, something to dear almost this pattern is the horizontally mounted PCIe x16 slot that lets you show off the GPU.

As for what we'd like to run into changed/improved: the cut out in the motherboard tray, an extension cable to the PSU subclass, and a way to install/remove 3.5" drives from the cage without having to remove both example panels.