D wrote:
did you check out the Lian-li PC-70USB or other variants?

It depends on the size of the complete CPU HSF assembly. If using something
big, you can't slide the tray out on a Lian-Li either.

Then there's the LED/speaker/button head, which Lian-Li decided to use
single pins for. There's no single plug to disconnect/reconnect if you want
to slide the tray out (on some model, there's a plug midway on the cable
though, but on the wrong side of a clamp to help when removing the
motherboard). Combined with the normal amount of other cable heads,
including IDE, USB, WLA, power and others, it's going to be a lot of
fiddling anyhow.
BUT -- to help with the original user's problems: On the Lian-Li cases, you
can very easily open the back panel too, meaning you don't normally have to
remove the motherboard if the fastening bracket is the reason why you
otherwise need full access to the motherboard to change the CPU.

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