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It's time to equip this baby with some real gear. We decided to forget the extra internal cooling and do a little water-cooling in this case for the "cool" factor. Here we installed the mainboard.

We prep the PSU, this is a 520 Watt OCZ ModStream.

The cables are run from the PSU towards the inside through a plastic-rimmed hole. And here tradegy struck. The PSU does not fit in there at all.

So we I decided to remove the cable plating and one of the driver bays to get enough space for the PSU. Luckily it's a Lian-Li you can unscrew everything and remove it (as shown above). Once I did that there was a second installment of the "drama" part. I seated a HD in the one remaining driver bay and the IDE flat cable was not long enough to reach the mainboard.

The longest IDE cables here in the office did not fit. This is not an issue with Serial ATA cables as they are long enough. But if you still work with standard Parallel IDE cables you might run into a problem here. To me there was no alternative, I had to remove the 150 USD PSU and replace it with a standard one.