Overall, I'm very happy with the case. It's not perfect (see my comments below), but I'm very happy with it. I'm running a system that's far from optimal for being silent (this is more a gaming system), and this case is keeping it very quiet. Right now, with all four (!) case fans running, it is as quiet as my previous P183 case which had only one rear exhaust fan (and the top fan disabled), while running the system quite a bit cooler. I'm sure I could easily make this case even quieter, simply by disabling some of the fans and/or replacing them with quieter ones.
On to some pictures! Again, I didn't plan on a full comprehensive review, I'm piecing this together with pictures I had previously taken. And note that most of my pictures revolved around what minor issues I had with the case.
My system:
Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD4P
Intel i7-870 Quad-Core
4 sticks of G.Skill Ripjaw 2GB each (8GB total)
SSD system drive, 2 7200rpm data drives
Radeon 5850 graphics card
Next to my P183. The power supply I have in the B25SB is a big Corsair 850W with a ridiculous amount of cables. If I did it over I'd pay extra for the modular cable version:
Top left corner inside the case, showing the two exhaust fans. Note that there is a switch on top of the case for High/Medium/Low fan speed - that switch controls this little PCB, which has three 3-pin connectors for fans. There is an identical PCB at the front upper corner of the case for controlling the two 120mm intake fans. Lian Li supplies a ton of molex-to-3-pin connectors as well.
Bottom of case. The PSU sucks air from here (though it is not sealed from sucking from inside the case as well).
Top button/port panel. Right-most button is power and glows a bright blue. The button next to it is the Reset button, and also doubles as the hard drive activity light. These buttons are rather easily pressed - I'm going to disable my Reset switch as I've hit it once already when using the headphone jack.
Top-down view of the drive cage with a drive installed. This shows a straight SATA cable - I felt the door would put too much pressure on the cable, so switched to cables with L-Shaped connectors for these drives.
Lian Li includes a nice cut-out in the motherboard tray, so that you can change your CPU cooler without removing it from the case. Alas, it doesn't appear to line up correctly, at least with socket 1156 boards like my Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD4P.
This case also features a toolless design for the PCI card slots - you just flip a lever up, install the card, then push the lever down. Little clamps then hold the card in place. Unfortunately, on my Radeon 5850 card, one of the two slots it takes up had part of a plastic shield in the way of the little clamp that holds it in place. I had to nibble away at the corner with some snips until the clamp would fit. Arrow points to the clamp/nibbled part.
Here's the beast I put in this case - a Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD4P with an i7-870 and 8GB of RAM. Cooler is a Megahalem with a Nexus 120mm fan strapped to it.
Case with everything installed. Note that I was unable to route the CPU power cable behind the motherboard, and was forced to just run it across the top. Not a big deal to me (there's plenty enough slack to install/remove the video card without unplugging that cable), but it looks a little messy.
That's it! Again, I'm quite happy with the case. I can *just* barely hear any fan noise at all (I have all case fans on the LOW setting), and I believe that is entirely from the stock cooler I have on the Radeon 5850 card. I've ordered an Arctic Cooling Twin Turbo Pro to put on it to silence that, then I can give a followup on overall noise. At that point I may be done, or I may decide to tweak the fans a bit.
If anyone has any questions regarding the case or specific picture requests, feel free to ask.
