Internal Tour.

With the Lian Li PCQ-30 being designed for a Mini ITX based solution, then space is at a premium and one could expect some form of compromise within Lian-Li’s solution. However judging by the images below we can confidently say that there has been some but minor ones only, of which we shall describe below.

 In order to remove the front panel one simply needs to remove four screws that will gain access to the fairly shallow interior. Whilst the design of the interior is very pleasing to the eye, we have however noticed that a water cooling solution would be next to impossible to implement within this chassis, without some major dremel work.

The drive bay on the right, we can see that there is a small collection of hard drive bays which can support up to four 2.5″ drives.   Some may feel that this is not ideal as it cannot accommodate a 3.5 inch solution, however  we feel that this is not the case. Laptop sized hard drives come in very large capacities these days in addition to Solid-State Drives.

We can see that the 2.5 inch bay is secured by a simple thumbscrew, of which should make installation a breeze.

The rear fan is of the 140mm type, along with a chrome grill, however here we encounter a small issue of which we shall speak of later.

As we have mentioned before the power supply bay is of the SFX form-factor type and whilst this is a sensible solution, as it does offer an effective way of making the case smaller. The flip-side of this is that the aforementioned form factor power supply is very hard to get hold of and those whom do stock this solution will charge a high premium.

The Lian-Li Q30 chassis allows for a small to medium-length card, of which is understandable due to the size of the case and the market area where this case appeals to. What it does have however is a dual PCI-E width which should allow the end user to get a half-decent graphics card in there.

The above images demonstrate the rear cage that is easily removable by four thumbscrews, but having said this do you remember the problem we stated earlier about this section?  We feel that Lian Li have missed an opportunity here; as if they increased the depth of this section by another 5mm then a thin water cooling radiator and fan could have been installed internally. In all fairness this is not the market that this product is aimed for, however it would have been a great extra bonus to be able to fit an internal liquid-cooled solution.

All in all when we assembled the case we feel that lack of wire management even in a chassis this small was a minor issue, however the length of time to completely assemble the computer was only 15 minutes- making it the quickest build we have ever undertaken.

 Let us now move on to the conclusion

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