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so one of the most exciting cases that we saw at CES this year just landed here in the studio it's the new BM Lee let's see if we can feel the difference ah the new O 11 dynamic from LAN Lee I have both black and white versions I feel like I'm gonna go with the white one for now Wow man I spent so much time be rolling good thing there's boot sequence to catch me up on all the news here I'll write you people so the PCO 11 from lien Li is finally here I'm super excited and that potentially might replace my current enclosure if I'm you know feeling optimistic about its air flow options so let's reel right into this finally an ultra slim body keyboard with mechanical red or blue switches designed and perfected for work and play that the Sorel Graham XS evolved to fit right in check it out below alright so I'm going to cut straight to the chase I think Liam Lee is going in the right direction with the O 11 dynamic and this is my favorite case yet from the company you can kind of tell this is Liam Lee's chassis based on this dual chamber design but they've almost completely moved away from the aluminum so the entire frame is just a steel glass panels and this small brushed aluminum section on the right side of the front panel it especially looks good on the white model and I appreciate this elegant touch away from your finger prints and it's exactly this material choice is how they're able to achieve a super competitive price point of 129 dollars that is available in two colors with the black one going for a special pre-order price of $99 for the next two weeks so check it out below but I'm really happy to see alia me being aggressive and branch out into the sub $200 market but what's interesting about this frame design is the lack of any exterior branding so they're clearly confident in this product but the inclusion of this plaque on the inside reveals their collaboration with their Bauer and talented German overclocker who has been involved in this whole redesign of the O 11 so thank you Roman now if you're seeing this type of dual frame for the first time and wondering why the front panel is covered in glass this is actually not another fad to kill airflow as the interior is actually well designed for radiator support which is why all sides have this cool ventilation pattern so a quick note about the white frame there is slight color mismatch between the metal side panel and the plastic case feed but otherwise attention to details awesome like refined edges on the exterior plating it comes chrome IO to match the aluminum plus the type C Gen 2 port is here with appropriate motherboard connector plus the glass is only tinted without the color cast and the only compromise here will be handling because the case doesn't have anything in the front to grab it by it like normally so these side openings are kind of there so you can grab it like so and move it around I really like their approach to side panel installation so all three sides utilize a drop-in approach with small inserts up top and at the bottom that tightly fit the panel the so it doesn't like wobble around the frame that is further secured by the top panel with convenient captive thumb screws this way all sides remain super clean so there are no a thumb screw sticking out but you will need to remove two panels minimum to gain access on the interior up top we have a dust filter that sits inside the small cavity to not interfere with the panel above it you can mount a 360 rod no problem or to 80 mil and I kind of wish that this was a bracket to simplify installation outside of the case and one thing you'll notice is the lack of any fan mounts at the rear because this entire motherboard section is slimmer than usual and moving inside I hope you'll see similar layouts as this in the future so one big chamber for the main hardware including a ATX motherboard support a 360 rat at the bottom although to SSD caddies must be removed and unfortunately you cannot remount them anywhere else on the case and it does block for PCI slots and so this is where the side radiator mount is important a 360 can go in here without interfering with the motherboard nor the GPU because the mounting tray is pushed out closer to the side panel and you can still have a 360 right up top with a 360 on the side and I appreciate that all the ATX motherboard standoffs are pre-installed but the two bottom cable cutouts are bare so only the large ones get the rubber treatment I do appreciate the black and white PCI slot stuff without the visual complement of this white and black frame and so the one major advantage of moving the power supply area and storage at the back with this dual chamber design is height look at this the PCO 11 is the same height as the 275 R from Corsair which I would consider to be like your standard size mid Tower look at them they're exactly identical in height yet because we don't have any power supply shout out here we have all that additional room upstairs for radiator support we do have to acknowledge that the case is wider because of this dual chamber layout but look at that it's not that much wider than your standard mid Tower so having the power supply rotated in this rear chamber is actually pretty genius really hoping more companies start to take this route for frame design in the future the right side panel has to dust filters once spanning the power supply area and the other for the fan area and in the rear chamber we get a cover bracket the only piece actually to include a Lian Li logo very discreet I like it that can also house dual SSDs or a three and a half inch drive and there's a proper drive gauge above the power supply with two Drive caddies I also like how the side fan area has enough clearance for push-pull mount or let's say you want a thicker radiator on the inside you can still mount a fan on the outside of that fan mount now I'm not sure why but this case supports dual power supplies one in the bottom here and another over here if you remove the drive cage and then the thing is if you have this drive bracket the top power supply has to be a little bit shorter in order to have compatibility with cables whereas the bottom one has this cutout here so you know power supply length is not really an issue but yeah dual power supply is inside this frame if you want to combine multiple power supplies to potentially power your system that is of course an optional alright so that's the overview now let's build this sucker and so here's the finished system I just might transition my coffee like machine in here with the white and black hardware because the experience was super smooth the 360 all-in-one is perfect fit on the side even if my GPU extended beyond the motherboard you know even further I'd still be ok because the motherboard is high enough to clear and starter fans and the radiator on the side the side cable exit is absolutely not a problem but the one above the motherboard tray can't really sticks out in this white frame and removing it helps a bit visually and with my single radiator as you can see the top feels kind of empty I would definitely install fans up there for exhaust and intake fans at the bottom just to drive some fresh air for the GPU and this frame for an air cooler would not really make sense without some front intake so the dynamic version is aimed for water cooling only I do want to mention this team group memory that I've been using for a cup of builds now it looks absolutely fantastic not just in this like white chassis but also combine that with a white motherboard it will look absolutely amazing this like laser-like effect coming down with the LEDs looks awesome and it's all compatible so I can control it directly from my asus motherboard so if you guys are interested in this team group memory check it out below now in terms of cable management man what an upgrade over the original 11 so here not only do we have so much just space to put any of your cables behind the motherboard tray or in from the power supply but we have these nice large rubber grommets so you can pass anything without any issues and cable tie points spread kind of all around here so you can kind of secure everything to the case and make it you know it doesn't have to be super flat but this works the only thing is you have to route your let's say cables behind the power supply before you actually populate the power supply because otherwise you won't be able to route anything behind it and the only inconvenience with this whole cable management thing would be this drive bracket because well they've removed the swivel joint that allows the bracket to pop out you can you know route your cables so now it's kind of standalone attached at the bottom and the top so you need to pre route your drives with before actually installing this thing back into the case also I want to say that the SSD mount is not ideal because right now the SATA power cable is kind of on an angle because this SSD is completely flat against the bracket so I wish that we had slightly thicker rubber pieces so that we could offset the SSD higher to avoid this SATA incompatibility with mounting I do love how this cleans up though this drive bracket certainly covers up that entire section from the power supply for this really cool look obviously I'll populate the side panel back on there but for example if you want to put the glass panel on there because they are backwards compatible you know you still have this really clean aesthetic on this side - all right so now it's time to do some preliminary temperature testing with this case I've only had it for two days so I would like to spend more time on the temperature side of things so a second video will be coming up so let me know what type of configuration for radiator and fans you'd like to see tested so that's gonna come in the second video but right now let's see what type of temperature we get we'll just exhaust the air without 360 all in one see what our CPU and GPU stays at after an hour all right so after 50 minutes of torture testing my temperatures are pretty impressive here with the CPU remaining at 72 degrees Celsius and just to give you a little comparison that is only two degrees hotter than me testing it on the case that has no front panel so having zero intake and it's performing just as good as it would on the case without the front panel that's pretty good but also impressive is the GPU below 80 degree Celsius at low so I'm like 78 79 degrees Celsius which is awesome all the cases that I've tested this card with ran about 84 degrees Celsius so really good temperatures I don't know what's happening inside but really can't wait to populate more fans to see how we can improve that airflow and in my second video I'll also be testing out their vertical GPU bracket so this is an optional accessory it sells for $60 which is a little pricey so the thing is because there are no like vertical PCI brackets on here you have to replace the entire wall of the PCI so that gives you some limitations but for my particular scenario with this blower style GPU we'll see if it makes any difference in cooling and so yeah I'll test it in the second video alright so for my concluding remarks all I gotta say is damn liam lee well done the name was still kind of weird PCO 11 dynamic but it does improve on all fronts versus the original and the price point of 129 that's pretty damn good for a dual chamber layout a water cooling ready enclosure that looks beautiful it's elegant you know it's it's different and I just feel like they're pushing towards that pre order price of $99 and if this case launched at $99 that would have been so good but still for the black version for the next two weeks if you guys are interested make sure to preorder it to save you some cash and we haven't actually given out in the word in a while because everything just feels kind of stagnant but this feels fresh and we're giving it the hard knocks the input award alright everyone this is it for me thanks much for watching let me know what you think on the PC or lemon dynamic and I can't wait to show you what the air will deliver later by