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Lian Li Showcase: The Best of the Best?

2018-06-05
here at the Leonie booth Computex 2018 we're gonna start things off with something you've probably seen flooding your inboxes lately about RGB cables the next big trend but guys I remember I'm being serious with you here I really think these are gonna take off because they look so freakin good I know they probably look really good on camera - I'm trying to show you as decent a b-roll shot as I can right now of these cables but in person they look immaculate they are I can confirm called the streamers despite their odd spelling out strimmer or streamer so I think streamer makes a bit more sense we've got 24 pin cable here we've got 8 pin VGA cables 6 pin VGA cables in production you'll see those soon as well as a thing EPS up top so you can fully RGB your main graphics card and motherboard cables for your next RGB bill now this is the meat of the Lindley party this is the land cool one we teased this a little bit at CES 2018 they were asking for feedback how to improve this case before it went into production because of course they want this to be something that the consumer wants to buy so you'll find many improvements with the official landfill one is when it's dubbed and I'm gonna start first with just some of the hardware support you'll find in this case you have an idea of what you can potentially build in this beautiful chassis that comes in between 89 and 99 bucks depending on the options you want inside so starting with fan and radiator support of course that's a big option to consider when purchasing especially a midsize tower case like this one there are seven PCI slots at the rear by the way you can fit up to three 120mm fans or a 360 mold radiator or whatever you want to work up front or two 140mm fans up top same thing you can fit three 120mm fans but not really a radiator because it's radiator a bit longer than the fans themselves now Ram clearance if you're worried about that up top Jameson did tell me that they were able to fit Triton Zhi ramen here from g.skill but if you want something like team group nighthawk ddr4 because they have the little fins that stick up higher on the sides might be cutting it close so you know anything Triton Z height or lower should be fine with the fangrad combo up front because everything has shifted closer to the left side of the case a few more things I want to point out the first is that you have rubber grommets here on the right this actually supports up to e-atx because things are pushed it a little further right than usual if you look at some of the competitors the practical design cases that I've reviewed this little indention here which is great for cable management we'll talk about a second it's pushed a little further to left which limits you to just ATX motherboards here full size EAX not a problem and then up top if you're interested in support for fans and whatnot you can access all of that with this little magnetic clip here so you can mount your fans here you can of course mount 140s if you want as well but only two of those because the case is not very long in terms of depth but this is again just a very nice magnetic clip back on and an integrated dust filter is included now sliding around the back this is where things get especially interesting so only two thumb screws here you can use Phillips heads if you want but that's all it takes just two of them because it does slot in down below and a cool thing is it's gots a similar hinge design to what other Leoni cases have done in the past with you know your cable management bar at the right side here though all you got to do is slide the entire panel into the base and then it just clips on like that much easier if you have a lot of cables back here we all know how difficult it is to get this panel to slide it in from the back right because you're pushing all the cables forward you're not actually pushing them into the chassis so with this design here you just smush them all in if you have a problem with that though I don't think you will because we do have again that indention I mentioned earlier for the front of the case you can mount SSDs up here if you want or you can slide these behind the motherboard tray and then just stuff all the cables you want if you're about an inch worth of clearance of two or three centimeters plenty for case of this calibre the case also has three large cutouts up top so I presume you'd have some you know fan headers running through here maybe some RGB cables and whatnot through the middle and then of course your eighth in EPS on the top right good to see all of those inclusions if we swing the case around again and over doing a full 360 here but I want to give you guys the rundown of this case as much as possible about actually building it and giving you an official review upfront here this is actually aluminum and it has been cnc'd all the way around so it looks beautiful we get that like chrome and I finished around the edges really like that going back to the roots there with the aluminum touch the other big thing that you'll get in the $99 edition if you look up top here we have front io just kind of tilt the case forward probably be a little better to see we have type C on the far left we have the hard drive LED indicator here we have the LED button that controls the RGB s at the front of the case a power button USB I think these are going to be 3.0 and then we have headphone jack microphone jack and then there's another USB 3.0 port on the far right so again the type C port is included in the $99 Edition you forego that in the $89 one in my opinion you should pay the extra 10 bucks you get the addressable RGB LEDs and you get type C so if you want to stay up to date this is a you know this is a new thing everyone's so worried about here it is and then under $9 land cool now I'm sure you all remember the O 11 air and improvement upon the original PC o 11 and I actually built my first custom loop in you also probably know about the O 11 dynamic by now built one of my custom loops in that case the white version I have the black one sitting in the studio now this is the final revision of the 11 air and I think it looks even better than it did at CES again you have the same simple mechanisms to remove and reinstall those side panels the top panel the front panel all completely toolless it's a beautiful design I'm glad they stuck with it and I want to see this in cases from all manufacturers frankly I think we only is leading the way here and if you are not familiar with the dynamic or the air things are pretty pretty unique in here you got the PSU going on the back side behind the motherboard tray you can mount three 120mm fans here three 120 here three 120 here and three 120 here so what a total of 12 120mm fans and you can also fit all these slots as well together I think you can you probably I don't know if you can fit a radiator here and here all to ask about that you might not be able to put them side-by-side but I know you can do at least one on top one on bottom and one at the back so if you want to just you know check this case with rads and fans you can certainly do it plenty of space in here plenty of airflow a big topic especially in 2017 with airflow this case prioritizes it thanks to that kind of grill mesh front panel and if you're wondering this one - oh no this one's screwed in okay maybe this one doesn't remove the same way but two simple screws on top here slide it off you have access to the front you want to install fans or rides up front certainly possible and again on the back side of the case you want to remove the right side panel plenty of space back there as well for just tons of cables you can be absolutely ludicrous with your cable management not care really much about anything back here although I don't recommend you do that and still have room to spare because of the way this case is designed now this table here it doesn't have a name yet but it is self raising according to the menu up front there it's adjustable with built-in motors beautiful tempered glass with a very nice metallic frame supports up to 80 kilograms I could sit on this thing actually more than me it sit on this thing you can build an entire PC inside of it show it off to all your friends I really want one of these just to build on I think we'd be a great like b-roll table and build table present do it just this but I think it looks sexy on camera and here's the best kicker it only costs apparently nine hundred ninety nine dollars which I find hard to believe because some IKEA self-raising desks are about the same price so if that's the case I actually think they're gonna sell a lot of these despite being a thousand dollar table it's one of the best value thousand dollar tables I've ever seen now we're going to end things here at the Leonie booth here at Computex 2018 with the O 11th dynamic revision in a partnership of sorts with razor I talked about the equal video how I like seeing companies work together and this is this is Nirvana folks this looks so good I already love the way the dynamic looked to begin with and I love what Razer has done what they've included working with Lee and Lee here to make it just RGB if I'd even more you guys know Razer chroma their keyboards and peripherals headset all that it's all RGB synced and you can use Razer synapse software to control these RGB LEDs both shining through here which you'll see on the left side of the tempered glass up front and underneath to give it a subtle glow on the bottom really crisp looks great I love it when sync with all the other RGB stuff we've got in the case and again you don't want RGB change it to whatever you want that's the joy of RGB I know it gets old seeing this stuff over and over but it looks clean if you set it to the color profile you want that's all finale and leave with your computex 2018 stay tuned for the rest of our coverage couple more days worth of hunting finding booths finding Suites and checking out the new tech this is science studio thanks for traveling with us
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