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bill its coverage of copy text 2019 is brought to you by fantex coolermaster gigabyte enter max team group NZXT and corsair to learn more about our sponsors click on the links below Radley enly this is the PCO 11 dynamic excel in beautiful fuzzy okay it's a sharp down so they actually made it bigger in pretty much every way shape and form so it's a deeper taller and wider but they've crammed a lot more functionality into it which is awesome I think should have a finish built here and the empty shell here let's take it out let's take a look at the empty show okay so for starters you can see that the motherboard tray is quite a bit bigger we can go ei TX all the way and so the ATX will actually go pretty much flush with with this grommet right here so it doesn't overhang the actual motherboard tray and you still have room throughout your cables where it bends so that's actually pretty nice that's the first kind of major improvement the other thing is what if what if you are just relying on airflow from the bottom here and you don't plan to mount any fans on the side well they've actually considered that so they've actually put one two three SSD trays here so two and a half inch drive mounts which you can obviously fill this up with whatever crazy RGB arrangement you want and these are all modular you can pop them off if you want as well you can also remove one of these for a 120 millimeter fan so you could just you know duct us out with a three hundred and sixty millimeter radiator if you wanted to there's also a plate at the bottom here to cover it up give it a cleaner look you can swap this around to you can have that plate go at the top and have the three SSDs at the bottom or you can just do a sort of mix and match whatever your heart's content the bottom here is really nice they actually have a removable plate so that you can actually mount your your fans in a radiator to first outside of the case before mounting it all inside this is actually a huge improvement compared to having to just screw the fans in or radiators in from the actual outside of the case where he actually had to tilt the chassis and it was it was kind of but so that's been much improved as well there's a hundred 20 millimeter fan noun still at the back of the case here's a look at the back of the case you can see we have more mounting options here this is a plate that comes off just like that where you can see we actually have a hot swap sort of like pre-configured wiring here for for your your drives which go in from the back of the case filled just like the original P Co 11 more storage options here power supply goes to the bottom still and here's a look at those SSD panels that are now on the side of the case this is gonna retail for 199 which is quite a bit more than the I believe 139 for the PCO 11 dynamic non XL however you are getting more functionality built in and oh I should also mention that this is good reminder you can actually mount these SSD plates that were on the side here to the bottom of the case as well so we're going to show them off in a variety of different positions you have that option available to you so that's the PCO 11 dynamic excel let's see what else they got here this is the Odyssey X this is a very interesting concept because if you look at this case in this case they're actually the same case but in different configurations so this one's kind of more of a horizontal where you can see that we've got this little cut in the glass it's actually separate it actually opens up two ways it's kind of like two folding barn doors whereas this one is vertical so cut right down the middle I mean have your choice of either or I guess when it ships it's gonna come completely flat in the Box all these pieces will require full assembly so the user can determine at that point which way they want to go giving you flexibility and multitude of forms not usually seen on computer cases we also have this kind of cool little design here on the front panel for example you've got a big gap for for air flow potentially coming in but if you wanted to you could actually swap this around and have the airflow come from the sides the the middle will be completely closed off at that point but you'll have more openings on either side of the case it'll be interesting to see which configuration and front panel works the best I would imagine this is probably the worst you've probably worse off having it from the middle since this is where the fan hub will be and you'll be still covering the blades for the most part who's to say until the reviews come out there's obviously a lot of flexibility here this especially being a relatively large chassis you can see in this configuration they actually have a radiator at the front a 360 rad it looks like as well as another one at the top whereas over here maybe you could do something like three fans on the side and have another radiator at the top there so a lot of options to play around with I think this is the more interesting configuration of the two with the with the glass barn doors mounted vertically simply because you actually get to see the the hinges in action there are hinges on this panel it's very interesting and it also kind of creates this gap here so becomes a little bit more open air obviously no dust filtration there so that might be a concern for some users but certainly a unique look that's gonna cost you a pretty penny right now Lee and Lee is estimating I believe anywhere from three to four hundred dollars which is relatively steep it'll be interesting to see how many people actually pick one of these up look at these feet these case we are huge you know what they say about cases the big feet this is the land cool too this is probably the case here that I'm most excited about because of the price point $89 which is kind of unheard of for Lindley they're really trying to attack the mainstream market here and go after a lot of their competitors that have cases in this price range look at this power supply shroud is external it's like an external power supply shroud that actually folds down from the left side this is this is huge I wish more cases would start doing this it actually allows you to access your your in your drive cages where you've got three slots right there you can access your power supply you know what happens to me often times is I'll actually install the power supply in a case that has a power supply basement and then forget to have plugged in one of the the power supply cables but the connector for it is way off to this side and I'm just like trying to fish for it on the other side of the case if only there was a way you could fold it down this is actually really handy I think it's gonna help out a lot of builders who are in tight situations the side panel is on hinges very nice opens very seamlessly and inside we actually have a very well-thought-out interior of course you got it looks like 140 millimeter fan mount right there it looks like you could go up to e ATX motherboards here because if you look at this guy so I think by default it's like this right kinda like this so if you have an ATX motherboard the cables will just route right in here kind of very cleanly however if you're stepping up to e ATX turn this around and that gives you probably about a good inch maybe an inch and a half more clearance for your motherboard so that the cables are still routed very cleanly kind of like that you have some cable cutouts right here a couple fan mounts for 120 millimeter fans going straight up to your GPUs tons of ventilation here so assuming that your power supply is gonna be conflicting with this I'm not exactly sure how that's gonna work maybe this fan would be a bit more effective at actually getting fresh intake from the bottom of the case but yeah that should definitely help your GPU thermals out it looks like a three hundred and sixty millimeter radiator could be mounted at the front of the case and the top it looks like you have room for a 240 okay one thing I forgot to mention here on the power supply shroud they actually have ventilation slots on the side which is going to help for air flow with these top fans or with the fans that are mounted on top of the the actual shroud which is a very nice nice feature on the backside the power supply shroud comes down this way as well you do get a mounting tray for two and a half inch SSDs it looks like you might be able to fit a three and a half inch drive there tooth don't don't don't quote me on that there's an optional hot-swap board that already has the connectors wired up so that you can pretty much hot swap any drives that are on the opposite side which is pretty cool again sold separately it's gonna be optional no word on pricing of course we also have a tempered glass panel that swings out just the same way as it does on the other side to reveal a very clean looking backside - SSD trays right here a single single thumb screw and these two large panels covering up the majority of your cables if you remove this guy right here it'll actually reveal a little mounting plate that would be ideal for mounting OOP there is a thumb screw would be ideal for mounting say like an RGB controller which I believe this case comes included with or a fan hub for example if you wanted to mount one here it just keeps things really tidy especially with all the cables that that are usually wired up to those devices all under one seamless panel that's pretty cool this panel is held in by a single thumb screw which I've just removed and if you take that off you can see sort of our front panel connectors just running down seamlessly of course the the plate that I showed you earlier on the other side is going to be here so you won't be able to see any of this garbage seems like a pretty clean and seamless cable management system of course you still have room down below the power supply tray to stuff your excess cables into I've saved the front panel for last okay there's addressable RGB under here which I'll get some b-roll of that you kind of see it over there but let me go ahead and pop this off it comes off very easily if my wife will take that thank you honey so this is actually really cool there's this removable mount as a removable mounting bracket where you can house again three 120 or three 140 millimeter fans but what's cool about it is that you can see that it if I can take this out aha okay kind of comes out like this okay so it comes out like this right so it's got these little notches on the corner that you can actually slot in to either the grooves that are down below or slightly up so you can see that there's depending on what you slotted into it'll affect how this radiator bracket is installed so for example if we do it right here you can see that the brackets actually indented a little bit so if you want to move the fans further away from the front panel to get additional airflow in to widen that gap that's that's obviously an option to you that's gonna be favorable for a lot of users however if you want to flip this around and slop the pegs into the lower grooves you can see that the bracket is now actually protruding slightly from this front piece of the frame which is actually going to give you more radiator support so you can actually fit thicker radiators in here obviously the fans are gonna be brought closer to the front panel but there's a sacrifice you'll have to decide for yourself it's also worth pointing out here that the front panel gets its addressable RGB through this little connector here these little metallic pegs on these metallic contacts straight up here very similar to what we've seen on like a fan Tech's case for example on the end to evolve so this is the land cool - $89 I think that's a very attractive price point especially for layin lead cases I think a lot of people are going to be attracted to it because of its flexibility and the crazy amount of thought that's been put into the design and there we have what's chalking up to be one of my favorite new lammle cases here economy checks 2019