Thursday, January 2nd 2014
Lian Li DK01 Desk-Type Chassis Prototype Unveiled
Lian Li is feeling experimental again. After taking the PC enthusiast community's opinion on the PC-A51 prototype late last year, the company undertook another such exercise, this time with an emerging form-factor, desk-type chassis, chassis that doubles up as your desk. The DK-01 prototype by Lian Li Measures 800 mm x 795 mm x 600 mm (WxHxD), the business end of the case is its top drawer, which houses your hardware, and metal u-frames that make up its legs. A clear glass or acrylic top gives you a bird's eye view of your creation from above.
The DK01 features room for a gargantuan HPTX motherboard, which means it can also hold EATX, XL-ATX, and standard ATX motherboards. The case has room for up to fourteen (14) 3.5-inch drives, which are arranged in detachable bays. Removing half the bays creates room for large motherboards, and long (up to 410 mm) add-on cards. With the caddies in place, that room shrinks to a still respectable 280 mm. The case supports PSUs as long as 280 mm, and CPU coolers as tall as 180 mm. At various locations, there is room for up to seven 120 mm fans, which you can use to deploy a 240 x 120 mm and 360 x 120 mm radiators.
More pictures follow.
The DK01 features room for a gargantuan HPTX motherboard, which means it can also hold EATX, XL-ATX, and standard ATX motherboards. The case has room for up to fourteen (14) 3.5-inch drives, which are arranged in detachable bays. Removing half the bays creates room for large motherboards, and long (up to 410 mm) add-on cards. With the caddies in place, that room shrinks to a still respectable 280 mm. The case supports PSUs as long as 280 mm, and CPU coolers as tall as 180 mm. At various locations, there is room for up to seven 120 mm fans, which you can use to deploy a 240 x 120 mm and 360 x 120 mm radiators.
31 Comments on Lian Li DK01 Desk-Type Chassis Prototype Unveiled
But seriously, this edges closer to my dream mod that I've never had the ambition to do.
Take a coffee/end table (perhaps even a room-central type with rising hinged top that goes from ~12-36inches, like I use currently) with a storage section underneath and stuff a open-air test bed in there, attach some usb and perhaps display/power extensions, drill some holes for the inputs/outputs (if not simply expose the backplate towards a wall), perhaps attach a couple low-noise fans/cages/filters on each side, and voila. Hiding a few cables for the tv/audio would be a small price to pay for the chassis space and clean look of the room. That would be pretty sweet imho.
But a set-height desk? Nah...although I do appreciate where they're going with the idea.
At the very least, it gives consumers a choice and at the end of the day, having a choice is what really matters.
Hopefully, they'll make it more customize-able.
While again, I don't swing that way, I must admit what beautiful desk porn that indeed is...if you dig the gaudy type.
Castors would make it a lot better.