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Chazore said:

JEMC said:

After working with it, I can recommend th Lian Li Lancool 216. It's big enough to hold any hardware and it's also very easy to work with it.

I only have to complains about it:

1) No dust filter. I've been using it since Wednesday and I can already see dust accumulation if the front mesh panel where the two 160mm fans are.

2) The PSU can only be installed in one way, with the fan facing down to draw cool air in. It won't not a problem with most power supplies, but for the hybrid ones that have to be installed the other way around to prevent heat from accumulating, it can be one.

It looks miles better than my current case, and I have been interested in the LL brand for a few years now. Having 2 large front facing fans would def be better than what I have now, which is 2 smaller front facing ones currently blocked by the old drive bay hanging in front.

I'll probably use 2 high pressure fans for the front and have 2 regular ones for the top vents. My CPU will still be using water cooling single fan, so that can remain at the rear like my current build.

I have the same dust complaint as you do, but I'll have to find some third party mesh I could use, since my 1080ti and PSU are currently the main dust culprits. My other issue I have to work out is to also add some NVME's to the list to slim down my usage of drives (got 5 SSD's atm and one HDD) to maybe 4, or even two, provided I can slot 2 NVME's onto the board. 

I've added the case to my list atm, but it will definitely be on the purchase priority as soon as I am able to get the other parts from the friend, thank ye for the tip broskie!.

You can replace the two 160mm at the front with 3x120mm or 2x140mm, if that's what you want

As far as storage goes, you'll be hard pressed to find a modern case capable of housing more than 2 3.5" HDDs. Case manufacturers seem to think that everybody has moved on to SSD or "the cloud". And the 216 is no exception, with room for only 2 HDDs. When it comes to SSDs, you're in luck as it can store 6, but the problem will then move to motherboards with enough SATA ports for all of them.

m0ney said:

JEMC said:

Well, it looks like it's upgrade season for some of us here, because I've also (finally!) upgraded my PC!

I've upgraded everything but the GPU. I'm not too demanding and my GTX 1070 will still do the job for me for a while. Also, the only option available right now in my price range is the 6700XT, because an 8GB card to play at 1440p is not a good idea. So, this is what I've got:

• Case: Lian Li Lancool 216
• PSU: Seasonic Vertex GX-850
• CPU cooler: Deepcool AK-620 (very easy to install)
• Motherboard (the most expensive part of this build): Asus ROG Strix B650E-E (Murphy's Law. I paid more to get a card with a seven segment display because I got some troubles as of late, only to have none during this build)
• RAM: G.Skill Flare X5 DDR5 6000 32GB 2x16 CL30 AMD EXPO (worked without a single problem)
• Storage. I went with two drives:
  • OS drive: WD Black SN850X 1TB
  • Games drive: WD Black SN770 2TB
• CPU: R5 7600

Congrats on your nice new parts. I'm on a i7-4770 Xeon but won't be upgrading any time soon since I don't play modern demanding games, although The Last of Us Part 1 is pushing my Xeon and 6600XT to their limits.

Thank you.

To be fair, games weren't the main reason to upgrade, but the general performance of it. For example, I've set my anti virus to do a full scan every week, on Saturday morning when I'm busy with house chores and other errants and, while the mechanical drives play a role in it as well, it took around 5 hours to complete. The new one, with the same files and mechanbical drives, did it in around 2 hours the first time, and it will be less the following times when it only has to scan the new or modified files.