Lian Li The Hammer PC-90 Full-Tower Chassis Review
Peter Donnell / 12 years ago
As you can see we have stripped out the rear 120mm fan and replaced it with the Antec Kuhler CPU coolers radiator, bit of a dual purpose fitting but its nice to know that it can handle this cooler.
With the system complete you can clearly see these vertical mounting brackets at work, with our Kingston SSD mounted sideways in the bottom left corner and room left for another 5 hard drives across the left and right panels, while the central column is used for cable management I couldn’t for the life of me find an actual use for it, its placed far too close to the hard drives for the cables to actually fit and to be of any practical use, so I opted to let the cable run across the bottom of the case instead.
The same can be said about another feature we have here, just to the right of the hard drive we have some rectangular slots, these are for some support brackets that attach to your graphics card to help support it, since no such device is required on any GPU I’ve ever installed, the fact that they didn’t appear to offer any kind of benefit and the final problem that I couldn’t even work out how to install them left me baffled, it’s nice that its there as an option should you need it, but this really made little sense to me overall.
Around the back you can see our Antec PSu is mounted upside down in the chassis, personally I prefer the power supply to be mounted in the bottom of the case to aid with cooling and cable management, but it sits nicely in there non the less. Further down you can see our MSI GTX 560ti is sat in there nicely, with plenty of breathing room thanks to the ventilated expansion slots.
Once the system is complete and all panels are in place, there is little indication that we have in fact done anything with it, with no viewing windows, very little to see through the front cooling slots and a faceplate that covers our DVD drive, the case looks just as it did out of the box, while this does give it a nice clean look, its clearly not a chassis for people who want to show off their rigs components.
