Lian Li has gone all out, aiming to make the ultimate PC chassis. While this has been the aim with some of their previous cases before, they have always managed to impress. With a changing landscape and a new high-end board format a new case needed to be designed to meet their demand. Sure 400 USD or even 390 Euro is the price some of us pay for the entire system under our desks, so it really comes down to one question: "do you really need this chassis?" Sure it has an uncompromising build quality, yes you can fit a crazy 15 hard drives in it and an EVGA SR2 can be placed inside the case along with a stack of graphic cards and two CPUs, while still leaving room to breath, but if you really do not need any of these aspects, you will be better served with one of the "smaller" Lian Li offerings like the V1010, giving you that same level of quality along with a similar feature set.
That brings me to the one big gripe I have about the V2120 - fact is, it is one of the biggest, baddest and most expensive cases out there, which makes me wonder why Lian Li decided not to offer some of the features which we have seen on much more affordable cases and even with enclosures in the Lancool brand. Let me put it this way: It is like paying for the Porsche Panamera - with all the room and excellent build quality, to put that monster of a engine/mainboard to good use, just to notice that you are missing small features usually found in a Volkswagen Jetta. While you will still love your Porsche and are well aware of the difference in quality and the vastly different possibilities, you may still wonder why you are expected to spend even more money for things other much more affordable cars include. The Lian Li MF-505 3.5 inch bay adapter will set you back 5 Euros, while the Lian Li PCI-01 expansion card lock goes for another 15 Euros, so both of these are by no means high priced items, which I would have loved to see included in a case priced 400 USD or more. But before you get any wrong impressions, let me be clear: the Lian Li PC-V2120 is a bad-ass case and I mean that as a sincere compliment. It is considered a fact, that a chassis may well survive multiple changes in hardware and I will go as far and say, that the Lian Li PC-V2120 may even be the last case you will buy. But if I may conclude with the following: you should better put this gigantic, well engineered case to good use. Fill it with multiple graphic cards, stuff it with hard drives or even pack an HPTX board in there - you know you want to.