Lian Li PC-Q07B mITX aluminum PC Case Unboxing Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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703 words · ~3 min read
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Okay, so we've got the Q7 from Le and Lee. Our shipment finally arrived. It
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was delayed by the uh the typhoon they had over there. And if you haven't seen
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it already in our forum, we have a thing where you can uh donate your forum
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points to uh help us aid the uh the sufferers over there. So, we are making
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a donation as a company. So, check that out in our forum. Anyway, here's the
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case. It's a mini ITX enclosure from Le and Lee that I thought would be uh
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pretty interesting to people because it's probably the most stylish miniITX
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enclosure, at least in photos. I haven't seen it in person yet, that we've ever
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seen. So, let's just get it out of the wrapping here. Let's see. It comes with
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uh an installation guide where you can see that we've got uh sort of a layout
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of the case itself. Motherboard installation, hard drive installation,
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power supply installation. Anyway, so let's have a look at this case. So,
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basically, we've got a 5 and a/4 in bay, power and reset switches, two front USB
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ports, and then if we go around to uh
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the side here, you can see you've got lots of ventilation holes, and the side
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panel is actually removed by taking off
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six screws. So, I'm not I'm not really
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sure how much I like to see this kind of system for removing a side panel. With
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uh with so many other manufacturers going toolless and even Lee and Lee
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going toolless across a lot of their case line, it seems like kind of a step
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backwards to have such a such a clunky
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system for this, but I mean the case has a lot of other things going for it. So,
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let's talk a little bit about that. So, first of all, you can install one 3 and
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1/2 in drive. You can install one 5 and 1/4 in drive as we saw in the front. But
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the neatest thing about this case, which I will get to as soon as I have these
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screws off, hopefully you're planning to just put this together once and uh not
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take it apart again after that. So, here we go.
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And come on off. There we There we go. Oh,
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don't get away. All right. So, there's the uh you can see the finishing is is
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immaculate, just like you would expect from any Lean Lee product. Very very
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nice. Nice thick gauge aluminum even on such an inexpensive enclosure. So once
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we get inside, you can see through the back this accepts a fullsized ATX power
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supply unlike so many other of the microATX cases on the market. So that is
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a really unique selling point for this case. So let's take out the accessory
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box and let's have a look at what we get in there. So, this is going to be your
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mounting hardware and uh let's see. A couple cable management pieces, some
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rubber grommets for mounting your hard drive. Uh some thumb screws. Oh, six
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thumb screws. No, no, I can't tell what these are for. We'll get to that later,
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I guess, then. And then on the inside, you can see we've got uh Lean Le's
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rubber grommet mounting hard drive thing here. You've got your ITX
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uh back plate on the back there, so you can mount your ITX motherboard there.
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You've got your front USB cables here. You've got your power and LED uh
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switches and lights here. And then up at the top, that's where you mount your
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optical drive. So, let's go around to the back. So, you've got one expansion
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port, one little wireless antenna slot that you could potentially plug
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something into, and then you've got your IO panel, and then we go around to the
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other side, and it's just a plain plain
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black enclosure. Actually, the whole thing is very stylish, very cool
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looking.