Assembly

Installing the mainboard is done with the help of traditional spacers. There is plenty of space around the board, so connecting all the different cables should be fairly easy. The GPU is held in place perfectly by the metal locks we have come to love so much.


Before inserting the hard drive you need to apply screws with rubber rings to each location. These kill any vibration dead in their tracks. Simply side the hard drive into place and push the lock down - done. You may also install the drives with the SATA connector facing you, which should make things easier when frequently installing new or swapping existing drives.


The ODD installation is just as simple. Pull out the cover, slide the drive into place and push the locking bar down until it locks into place. For those who want to make 100% sure that the drive won't budge should use a single screw as well. Nonetheless, the locking bar by itself works perfectly fine for everyday work.


Installing the PSU in the modern Lian Li and Lancool cases is for me still the funnest part of all. Place the unit in the location, hook the big lock into place and push the lever down until it falls into place with a loud snap. Then you can ask yourself "Oh snap! That was it?" - Yes, that was it.


Once all the parts are installed, everything is fairly easily accessible. You will have to remove both side panels when installing additional hard drives, as the connectors face away from you when looking at the mainboard.

Finished Looks

Once all the side panels have been put back in place, the case makes a really good impression. The optical drive fits perfectly and the rear bears no unpleasant surprises.


Once turning on, the blue ring of light shines bright. For those who do not want to live with that, may just unplug it. As always, the included fans are very quiet and the sound insulation seems to do help a bit as well to incapsulate the noise. But there are still way to many openings for noise to escape the chassis. Those who want to seal off every opening have to go for power efficient hardware anyways. And that type components are mostly silent or even passively cooled.

For those who already have a PC-B25FB, the sound insulating kit is available at CaseKing for just under 30 Euros. So those wanting to get the case pre-modded will have to pay 10€ more than the chassis and the kit would cost seperately at CaseKing.