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Lian Li launches Tyr X2000 gaming tower
TAIWAN’S LIAN-LI has unveiled what appears to be its sexiest HTPC/Gaming Chassis to date with the Tyr X2000.
Apparently designed to allow its owners to get at their optical drives and hard drives from the side panels themselves, the Tyr X2000 is also built to look sleek, shiny and make minimal noise. Like the ideal girlfriend.
The six hot-swappable RAID SATA bays mean there’s also plenty of room to store films, with the company boasting capacity for “terabytes of multimedia”.
The enclosure doesn’t lack multimedia ports either, coming complete with four USB 2.0 ports, a Firewire (IEEE1394), an E-SATA, and a HD AC97 Audio port. The motherboard tray is purportedly removable and ‘holey’ to allow for CPU cooling.
With a Micro-ATX motherboard, enough space for no less than eight PCI cards, two 80 mm exhaust fans and water cooling, we’re beginning to understand why Lian Li didn’t include a price listing in the press release. µ
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The drives can go on either side. There are detachable drive bay others on both sides.

I've already worked with this case a few weeks ago and it's enormous. The build quality was pretty solid, but the front door doesn't have hinges. It's like a cover that just comes off.
You can see that the TYR X2000 quiet cradentials are only backed by the use of copious amounts of sound dampening matterial to kill the charactisic vibration that all Aluminum cases have. (Source of the latter fact is Silent PC Review).

Lokks like the reason why Lian Li, chose that E-ATX board was cos it and the twin graphics cards both make the airflow characteristics look better.

I don't think you'd use a dual socket 775 board in a gaming PC.

I am also not sure which side the 5.25in and external 3.5in devices go. The top pic implies on the right side, the bottom pic implies the left.
"If sir has to ask, sir can't afford it".

DO want though.
http://www.lian-li.com/v2/en/product/product06.php?pr_index=258&cl_index=1&sc_index=25&ss_index=61

The Tyr X500 looks good too:
http://www.lian-li.com.tw/v2/en/product/product06.php?pr_index=260&cl_index=1&sc_index=25&ss_index=62

I wish they'd design a case with internal water cooling in mind. These are pretty nice though.
That looks more like an extended ATX not microATX. If it really is microATX - with dual 775 and a bunch of PCIe - then the story is not the case, it's the board!


"built to look sleek, shiny and make minimal noise. Like the ideal girlfriend."

"we’re beginning to understand why Lian Li didn’t include a price listing in the press release."

exactly the same as a girlfriend, theres never a price list lol O_o