External Appearance I
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Lian Li PC37 Cooler Master 201B Since this case has a large number of 5¼ inch drive bays it has sacrificed the amount of 3½ inch drive bays. The case only has 3 x 3½ inch drive bays of which 1 drive bay is available for use with a floppy disk drive or similar. Many people these days don’t use floppy disk drives so they often use this space for a memory card reader or LCD temperature sensor. Lian Li have recently introduced there new style CD and floppy drive bezels.
These are a great improvement over there old style “stick-on”
bezels. Many UK retailers have just started selling these within the
past few weeks. Previously people have had to either spray or “stealth”
there beige CD drives. With a CD bezel of this quality and appearance,
it is certainly going to be popular. Not only is it quick and easy to
install your CD drive with the bezel, but it won’t void the warranty
of your CD/DVD drive. Installing a CD drive within the Lian Li PC37
using the CD bezel that is provided is just the same as any other case,
although you need to make sure the drive sits all the way forward so
it makes contact with the button on the CD bezel. I used a TDK 16/10/40x
CD writer and found no problems at all, but if your CD drive has 2 buttons
then this may cause problems. Operation of the drive seemed rather noisy
since the drive tray hits against the aluminium flap when ejecting and
loading the CD drive. I found that if I removed the plastic bezel on
the CD tray it was a lot quieter and smoother. As I mentioned before,
the CD bezel is very good quality, and a great match with the other blank
bezels within the case by carrying on the brushed aluminium look. One
thing I don’t particularly like is the plastic button on the bezel.
This certainly would have been nicer if it was aluminium but I suppose
it does follow a trend with the other plastic buttons on the Lian Li
(Power/Reset).
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