Lian Li’s PC-V33 Chassis Lets You Unwrap It For Easy Installation

The experience of building a PC can range anywhere from simple and pleasant to complicated and infuriating. The most important piece that determines the outcome is the chassis, and it’s for this reason that companies have made it a point to highlight the fact that their latest offering was designed to make installation a breeze.

There are many chassis that live up to that promise nowadays, but few are going to deliver an ease-of-installation quite like Lian Li’s PC-V33. Don’t want to deal with tight spaces? No problem, just open the entire top!

Lian Li calls its PC-V33 a mid-tower that feels like a full-tower. By opening up the top as seen in the above shot, the chassis is effectively turned into a test bench, allowing for easy installation without restrictions. Once all of the components are installed, the top can be wrapped back over and secured, and that’s that.

The PC-V33 will come in two flavors; one has a windowed side, while the other is solid – with the exception of some vents for fan installation.

And here’s a shot of the amount of internal room the chassis has, and its layout. Due to its cubed design, building a PC into this chassis is going to be quite a different experience than building one into a simple tower, but with its ability to spread its wings, installation actually looks to be quite pleasant.

If there’s one thing I want to complain about, it’s that there isn’t an ITX version of this chassis. I can’t think of a better use of this mechanism than for that, as ITX chassis typically leave almost no room to work with. And even if you can remove all of the sides, this chassis still has them beat by letting people simply unwrap the internal area.

Available in the weeks ahead, the PC-V33 will retail for $199 for the solid door version and $229 for the windowed version.