A Closer Look

The Lian Li PC-P80R is the special AMD Spider/ATI CrossFireX version of the PC-P80B case. There is a huge spider design cut into the side panel, and there is an ATI CrossFireX logo at the top right corner. Behind the spider design is a sheet of clear acrylic that has some additional design details to highlight the spider. The entire case is anodized red, except for a few small black accent pieces.


In front at the top of the case are the Power & Reset buttons and a small door. This location provides the four USB 2.0 ports, one FireWire port, one eSATA port and HD+AC97 Audio headphone and mic jacks.


The Armorsuit series features a vented front panel with fans located in the door. In this case, the PC-P80R has three 140mm red LED fans, all attached to a fan speed controller behind the front door. There is a removable fan filter located inside the door, but for some reason on this unit the filter would not come out all the way. I could only get it to come up about the height of one fan, which leads me to believe it was getting caught on the bracket. The entire door can be switched from left-opening to right-opening, but it would take a bit of work to do so. Behind the door are twelve 5.25" drive bays with perforated bezels.


At the back of case a fairly standard arrangement can be seen. At the top there is a removable power supply bracket, and just below that is a 120mm red LED fan. At the bottom of the case there are a total of ten PCI slots filled with black vented covers, which allows additional ventilation out of the case. Some additional features on the back are a security loop, four pass-through holes for water tubing and two places where an optional PCI Cooling Kit (BS-03) can be installed.