Review: Lian Li PC78

The rest of the cooling in the case rests on the shoulders of the two 120mm Sunon exhausts. I've found with the case that the rear exhaust near the CPU area (on a regular uniprocessor setup) is responsible for a lot of the overall cooling in the case. It takes away a lot of the heat from the CPU area and if the intake fans are active it helps with overall airflow.

The chimney exhaust fan gives you extra ventilation from the case when things get that little bit too toasty, but in general, given good PSU air extraction and the use of the 2x2 80mm array at the front and the 120mm at the rear keeps case temperatures low and the top fan (which tends to be noisier, maybe due to orientation) can usually be left off.

All in all, the case is simply a joy to work with. PSU cables can be routed behind the motherboard area out of the way and routed round the pillar at the end of the motherboard section keeping them away from the interior of the case as much as possible.

Since the right edge of most motherboards houses the connectors for IDE disk drives, cables can be tucked out of the way for the most part if you use that drive type. SCSI means running a connector from a controller if you aren't lucky enough to have a good on board SCSI controller but the cables can still be run flat along the case floor for a tidy cable setup and good airflow.

There's a lot of scope for a good cabling solution since you have so much room.

Being such a big chassis has its advantages.