I just built a system with this case and I absolutely love it. Core i9, Lian Li AIO Galahad II Trinity 240mm cooler, 2TB NVME M.2, GTX 1080 Founders Edition GPU. I mounted the Galahad II Trinity AIO cooler on the top, and like he said it BARELY clears the RAM. I got lucky there. Secondly on the cooling, I changed my mind at the last minute and switched the 320 Lian Li Galahad II Trinity cooler for the 240mm version. Other than that it is the best case I've ever built with. My wife, who is not a techy nerd, was staring at this build and stated that, "it's elegant". That's all i needed to hear. This is a quality case which cools hardware with ease. Just get it.
The perforation in the hard drive cage is a nice QoL upgrade from the O11 Dynamic, my HDD used to get very toasty to the point I had to buy a couple of 60mm fans and ziptie them to the back just to get some airflow going.
I just recently purchased this case after having my eye on it for awhile. And although It looks so great it is a royal pain in the arse to build in. I spent hours literally doing the installing of my 4 ssd's and trying to do as clean of a job as I could cable routing and management. I never had a Lian Li case before so when I did my ssd installs I did want to put them in the cage and onto that Der Bauer bracket. Of course then I had my cables dangling from the back of that bracket and having to route and plug those in before screwing that back on provided a huge challenge. Of course I have yet to find a video of anyone using that bracket as a place for installing the ssd's onto. The one other gripe I had about this case is the guy at MicroCenter didn't have one on display and yet led me to believe that is was the same width as the 011 mini chassis. I got it home, unboxed it then I found out I couldn't place it where I wanted to. Even though a great looking case it has been a total disappointment for me.
Picked up my O11 Mini non-Air version from the post office today, and first impression was good. Solid case, and fits my weird needs and wants perfectly. Nice review as always, Tom.
This would be a great little replacement for my old Carbide air 540. Same formfactor, same drive mount capacity and same cooling potentail but in a more compact form. Nice!
i routed the front fan cables to that top hole in the corner but first i rotated the bottom fan so i can hide and run the cable inside the top fan frame now it looks so clean
@OC3D, Tom, covers you showed for the case that go on the top are also meant to cover up the lower PCIe slots, meaning you can have a radiator on the bottom, if my diligence is correct.
Super pumped for this case, seems pretty much the idea layout for air cooling and for those who still have lots of HDD. Pretty sure no other case with the same volume can fit more stuff inside
I wish the front had a front panel that sticks out more so you could fit the fans more on the outside of where they are now, fit a radiator there too even if you have a long graphics card. The Arctic 280mm Liquid Freezer II with fans will be too thick (38+27mm) for a 330mm graphics card (or at least it seems like it). But I think a 280 as intake in the top, and the bottom as intake, and exhaust in the back, side and maybe front. And they do show a picture with a radiator and fans in the top on the 011 Air Mini page.
A little correction, the top of the case is max 280mm radiator, a 360mm won’t fit because of the inlet/outlet piping. It will fit 3 120mm fans, but not a 360mm rad.
would love to see some various thickness of rads and endcap designs being thrown in the case to see if there are any clearance issues with certain ones, also just to eyeball up how it looks.
I got the non air Lian Li O11D Mini Snow White edition only £108 postage included. They now include a very nice plastic container for the screws and cable ties in the box. You should review it. It improves on the Air Mini with a removable hard drive cage. But the downside is you are limited to SFX and SFX-L power supplies. Next build is going to be in my new case but it will take me a few months to get all the parts together. By the time it is built the Z890 and Intel 14th gen will be out, lol.
I have been plotting my next build, which includes an 5950X and an NH-D15. I wanted a case that's standard ATX mid-tower but slightly fatter, to give me about 190mm from the top of the motherboard to the case. The case itself should be 205 ~ 215mm thick. This should fit the bill very nicely.
This seems like a high quality, well thought out case. Very nice. I do not understand the shying away from putting a radiator in the top. I would do that over putting it in the bottom.
If using 7 slot mode there is no room in the roof for a radiator. If using 5 slot mode it is possible to have a radiator in the top. The only thing to note about this case is you must fit the motherboard first before the fans or you won't be able to screw down the motherboard with fans already in place. Something to bear in mind.
I managed to install 3 120 on the bottom and 360 aio lol. Cools my 12900k very good with 5.2 oc and 1.33v and 3090ti vertical max 67c no oc. Cinabench with frame contact 79c
You shouldn’t really fit an AiO with the radiator at the bottom and the pump much higher than it because it will lead to air getting trapped in the pump over time, causing noise and eventually pump failure. Either fit the AiO radiator on the roof or the front panel or the side and make sure the pump is no higher than the top of the radiator
sympathy in the bottom sounds different, I know you like red and white but using your own blood to get the red is maybe a little obsessive, other than that I like the case
just watched your dragonlord lancool k62 with the red interior vid as a throwback...man how far have we come with these lian li options and lancools amazing really...Now that arctic has produced its RGB coolers, im just waiting for them to unveil the white freezer II. So i can slap a 280 into this thing.
Great review Tom, I was interested few days ago buying the dynamic "old" version of this case but after browsing a bit I suddenly had seen this case was launched, so I changed my mind and decided to go for it mostly because it can accommodate ATX power supply. It really hard to find good high wattage SFX/SFX-L PSU, so this solves my problem. I’m thinking of putting the Arctic freezer ii 280mm CPU cooler inside, do you think it can fit nicely in the top of the case with ATX motherboard? And my sympathies for finger nail, here are some cookies 🍪 🍪🍪 for you. I hope the soreness has passed away.
4:05 okey, but how i access the lower PCI slot screws? those slot covers isnt removable so.... its a big design flaw with this case. If u have a sound card or something like that in the lower slots, u actually cant screw that in from outside, u have to do it from the case interior side but even from there u cant get a good angle to the screws.
When Alder Lake CPUs and Motherboards will seriously consider this case for my next build. Hope to go INTEL GPU and CPU entirely. Due to AMD and nVidia catering to miners to this date have no interest on going with then ever again.
How often do you use the reset button? In my case I probably had to use the reset button maybes 5 times in the last 10 years. Not really needed. If you need to reset you just turn it off at the power supply or mains socket switch.
We need the slim version of this case, move front connections on top and move power supply in the front fan facing down or front. That would make it a great small ATX case.
im on my 3rd case for my main 5600x red devil 6900xt now using the be quiet pure base 500 dx build ... iam running 5 heavy duty noctua 3k fans which i cant drop below 1200rpm lol so its loud i get alot of dust even past the filters through the front obviously fans are to fast but its cool lol .. the lian li o11 air mini may be a good change at some point with better fan positions meaning i could use lower rpm fans with added bonus of horizontal and vertical gpu mounting ( at a cost ) my only worry is the lack of actual filters in the front and top
The only difference is the kind of aesthetics you're into because both models have the same features. I've always used black cases but this time I went with the white O11 Air Mini because the glass isn't tinted like the black model, not to mention white reflects light really well. It's a good choice if you want to make RGB or decoration such as collectibles stand out. But the black version is pretty nice too, especially the brushed aluminum.
@@PoloDavey Yup, they screwed up the mesh layout so it had like half the intended hole density. They also ended up shipping the correct panel to the end customers who already had the case, which was a nice move by Lian Li. They even got to keep the old panel. Not sure what you would do with it, but I guess modders would like it. haha
Good Day everyone, I hope all of you are well, Sorry this is off topic. I need some assistance, with a new build I'm considering building: Motherboard: Asus Zenith Extreme II CPU: threadripper 3960x RAM: G skill 3200m B-die 64GB PSU: Corsair HX1200i GPU: Asus ROG Strix RTX3080 ti HDD: 5tb barracuda NVMe: Samsung 1TB Tower: I'm considering coolermaster c700m Full water cooling build. Would you all say its worth me actually building this? Because I heard a new generation of threadripper is coming out, and likewise with the gpu? What are your recommendations? I have got a company that has stock of all the items I require. Thank you all in advanced, have a great day.
A row(as in a barney)ter is a woodmachining tool. A rout is what happens to an army that breaks, not the way you go home. That is a route, pronounced root. A router routes your internet traffic and that is why it is pronounced root-er. You live on the Isle of White, England - NOT Manhattan Island, USA. Ggrrgghh! Revolting Pedant OFF. Good, informative vid. Not sure if I like the Air Mini SKU, too many holes and I've several graters already! :-) The front fan cable problem? UniFans - they only make the bloody things! Lost opportunity, many of us are going to fetch the bin over and reach for our Austrian/Other fan stash anyway. Or not - too many holes and STILL the front doesn't breathe properly? I do wonder why they bothered with the front at all. Perhaps that is why Roman's sig plate is out of view on the cable tidy. If I wasn't fitting drives on that, I'd defo blank of the holes, I'd know they were there even if I couldn't see them. I'd hope that sig plate would come of easily too, so's to put it somewhere more appropriate. Lots of food for thought here - I like the wealth of mobo options - but I'd probably apply it to the Dynamic Mini rather than this.
They say you can watercool if you set it to m-atx mode.... which is just WTF. "DeLoser" can't design a case if his life depended on it. LianLi should stop giving him money.
Too wide. Z-height doesn't occupy desk space, X and Y do. There's a reason why PSUs have been above or below the motherboard since forever, it's efficient packaging.
So many effin comprimises... just give us the options to have 3 fans in the bottom.. 3 fans in the top (with room for tall ram) and the two fans in the front in aswell, all at the same time... and why not supply the option to run 120 and 140 fans in all slots.... /puzzled... /buys slightly larger case from different casemaker. ... the front filter is s disaster aswell, why not create a door with a filter like the bottom.. so you can just slide the filter quickly in and out.... im not opening the case and unscrewing 6 screwd... that aint happening... just get your engineers to sort the major basics out.... when laymen can instantly point its shortcoming in 2 secs.. but casemaker cant... :(
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First person I've found actually test these cases with stock fans. Thank you so much, answered a lot of my questions, well done.
I just built a system with this case and I absolutely love it. Core i9, Lian Li AIO Galahad II Trinity 240mm cooler, 2TB NVME M.2, GTX 1080 Founders Edition GPU. I mounted the Galahad II Trinity AIO cooler on the top, and like he said it BARELY clears the RAM. I got lucky there. Secondly on the cooling, I changed my mind at the last minute and switched the 320 Lian Li Galahad II Trinity cooler for the 240mm version. Other than that it is the best case I've ever built with. My wife, who is not a techy nerd, was staring at this build and stated that, "it's elegant". That's all i needed to hear. This is a quality case which cools hardware with ease. Just get it.
Honestly to me it seems a superior design than normal mid towers or such. They really should be adopting this style more
The perforation in the hard drive cage is a nice QoL upgrade from the O11 Dynamic, my HDD used to get very toasty to the point I had to buy a couple of 60mm fans and ziptie them to the back just to get some airflow going.
I just recently purchased this case after having my eye on it for awhile. And although It looks so great it is a royal pain in the arse to build in. I spent hours literally doing the installing of my 4 ssd's and trying to do as clean of a job as I could cable routing and management. I never had a Lian Li case before so when I did my ssd installs I did want to put them in the cage and onto that Der Bauer bracket. Of course then I had my cables dangling from the back of that bracket and having to route and plug those in before screwing that back on provided a huge challenge. Of course I have yet to find a video of anyone using that bracket as a place for installing the ssd's onto. The one other gripe I had about this case is the guy at MicroCenter didn't have one on display and yet led me to believe that is was the same width as the 011 mini chassis. I got it home, unboxed it then I found out I couldn't place it where I wanted to. Even though a great looking case it has been a total disappointment for me.
This case is gonna be selling like crazy for sure , spot on price and features in the segment
Picked up my O11 Mini non-Air version from the post office today, and first impression was good. Solid case, and fits my weird needs and wants perfectly. Nice review as always, Tom.
My sympathies, I always hate it whenever I have "nail accidents" while tinkering, and I did have quite a few over the years...
I never had that problem. Have had the odd paper cut like cut whilst working on a case but never have stabbed myself under a finger nail.
Thanks for this review. First one I've seen to review this airflow case, without water cooling.
This would be a great little replacement for my old Carbide air 540. Same formfactor, same drive mount capacity and same cooling potentail but in a more compact form. Nice!
The Lian Li fans look nice too. They can be locked together so you only have 1 lot of cables instead of 2 or 3 coming off from the fans.
Did you end up getting this case in replacement to your Air 540. I'm currently in the same situation
i routed the front fan cables to that top hole in the corner but first i rotated the bottom fan so i can hide and run the cable inside the top fan frame now it looks so clean
@OC3D, Tom, covers you showed for the case that go on the top are also meant to cover up the lower PCIe slots, meaning you can have a radiator on the bottom, if my diligence is correct.
Super pumped for this case, seems pretty much the idea layout for air cooling and for those who still have lots of HDD.
Pretty sure no other case with the same volume can fit more stuff inside
I wish the front had a front panel that sticks out more so you could fit the fans more on the outside of where they are now, fit a radiator there too even if you have a long graphics card. The Arctic 280mm Liquid Freezer II with fans will be too thick (38+27mm) for a 330mm graphics card (or at least it seems like it).
But I think a 280 as intake in the top, and the bottom as intake, and exhaust in the back, side and maybe front. And they do show a picture with a radiator and fans in the top on the 011 Air Mini page.
A little correction, the top of the case is max 280mm radiator, a 360mm won’t fit because of the inlet/outlet piping. It will fit 3 120mm fans, but not a 360mm rad.
You literally bled for us making this video Guv!
would love to see some various thickness of rads and endcap designs being thrown in the case to see if there are any clearance issues with certain ones, also just to eyeball up how it looks.
I got the non air Lian Li O11D Mini Snow White edition only £108 postage included. They now include a very nice plastic container for the screws and cable ties in the box. You should review it. It improves on the Air Mini with a removable hard drive cage. But the downside is you are limited to SFX and SFX-L power supplies. Next build is going to be in my new case but it will take me a few months to get all the parts together. By the time it is built the Z890 and Intel 14th gen will be out, lol.
That accident with the rgb pins happened to me too. Pains like hell. So fast recovery , I recommend a pint of beer just in case :)
I have been plotting my next build, which includes an 5950X and an NH-D15. I wanted a case that's standard ATX mid-tower but slightly fatter, to give me about 190mm from the top of the motherboard to the case. The case itself should be 205 ~ 215mm thick. This should fit the bill very nicely.
Thanks bro! am looking a replacement for my old fractal design arc midi 2 and this one really please my eyes!
Great review
This seems like a high quality, well thought out case. Very nice. I do not understand the shying away from putting a radiator in the top. I would do that over putting it in the bottom.
If using 7 slot mode there is no room in the roof for a radiator. If using 5 slot mode it is possible to have a radiator in the top. The only thing to note about this case is you must fit the motherboard first before the fans or you won't be able to screw down the motherboard with fans already in place. Something to bear in mind.
I managed to install 3 120 on the bottom and 360 aio lol. Cools my 12900k very good with 5.2 oc and 1.33v and 3090ti vertical max 67c no oc. Cinabench with frame contact 79c
You shouldn’t really fit an AiO with the radiator at the bottom and the pump much higher than it because it will lead to air getting trapped in the pump over time, causing noise and eventually pump failure. Either fit the AiO radiator on the roof or the front panel or the side and make sure the pump is no higher than the top of the radiator
sympathy in the bottom sounds different, I know you like red and white but using your own blood to get the red is maybe a little obsessive, other than that I like the case
just watched your dragonlord lancool k62 with the red interior vid as a throwback...man how far have we come with these lian li options and lancools amazing really...Now that arctic has produced its RGB coolers, im just waiting for them to unveil the white freezer II. So i can slap a 280 into this thing.
Nice, but . . . why WHY!!! did they made it shorter than the regulat O11 Mini? now a 360 AIO cant fit at the top, neither a 280 on the side . . .
How much clearance are there from TOP to top RAM secure noch's?
I want a front panel like that for my 011-d xl
Great review Tom, I was interested few days ago buying the dynamic "old" version of this case but after browsing a bit I suddenly had seen this case was launched, so I changed my mind and decided to go for it mostly because it can accommodate ATX power supply. It really hard to find good high wattage SFX/SFX-L PSU, so this solves my problem. I’m thinking of putting the Arctic freezer ii 280mm CPU cooler inside, do you think it can fit nicely in the top of the case with ATX motherboard?
And my sympathies for finger nail, here are some cookies 🍪 🍪🍪 for you. I hope the soreness has passed away.
Have you bought the case and did you manage to pu 280 rad in it?
PC builder baptism by cuts ✂️, except it never stops!!
4:05 okey, but how i access the lower PCI slot screws? those slot covers isnt removable so.... its a big design flaw with this case. If u have a sound card or something like that in the lower slots, u actually cant screw that in from outside, u have to do it from the case interior side but even from there u cant get a good angle to the screws.
case of the year question mark
When Alder Lake CPUs and Motherboards will seriously consider this case for my next build. Hope to go INTEL GPU and CPU entirely. Due to AMD and nVidia catering to miners to this date have no interest on going with then ever again.
other reviews tell that the mesh is too small to bring air in (static pressure very bad). what do u say about it ?
When can we purchase ?
TTL got a white one!A real Beau😁
So eatx motherboard can fit with 260 or 360mm aio ? Thinking about x570 extreme to use in this case
Best to ask for a red case next review
Found you 👀, nice vids dude
Oh wow - gained a stalker!
@@OC3D lol call me the boost stalker
They've sent one all around TH-cam.
now waiting another month for it to be in stock :(
they built this case because in the mini (normal) only one sfx psu can be mounted
when is this case coming out does anyone know?
Sold out -.-
Someone please tell Lian Li to include a reset button…
How often do you use the reset button? In my case I probably had to use the reset button maybes 5 times in the last 10 years. Not really needed. If you need to reset you just turn it off at the power supply or mains socket switch.
We need the slim version of this case, move front connections on top and move power supply in the front fan facing down or front. That would make it a great small ATX case.
The white one is a bit more money than the black.
Sympathies in the bottom.
im on my 3rd case for my main 5600x red devil 6900xt now using the be quiet pure base 500 dx build ... iam running 5 heavy duty noctua 3k fans which i cant drop below 1200rpm lol so its loud i get alot of dust even past the filters through the front obviously fans are to fast but its cool lol .. the lian li o11 air mini may be a good change at some point with better fan positions meaning i could use lower rpm fans with added bonus of horizontal and vertical gpu mounting ( at a cost ) my only worry is the lack of actual filters in the front and top
whys everyone getting the white one?
The only difference is the kind of aesthetics you're into because both models have the same features.
I've always used black cases but this time I went with the white O11 Air Mini because the glass isn't tinted like the black model, not to mention white reflects light really well. It's a good choice if you want to make RGB or decoration such as collectibles stand out.
But the black version is pretty nice too, especially the brushed aluminum.
@@ShrekLaBeouf hell yeah i have the black one. its great. did you hear about the weird little recall they did at first due to low airflow?
@@PoloDavey Yup, they screwed up the mesh layout so it had like half the intended hole density.
They also ended up shipping the correct panel to the end customers who already had the case, which was a nice move by Lian Li.
They even got to keep the old panel. Not sure what you would do with it, but I guess modders would like it. haha
@@ShrekLaBeouf I've always wondered how you could tell which panel you got.
Good Day everyone,
I hope all of you are well,
Sorry this is off topic.
I need some assistance, with a new build
I'm considering building:
Motherboard: Asus Zenith Extreme II
CPU: threadripper 3960x
RAM: G skill 3200m B-die 64GB
PSU: Corsair HX1200i
GPU: Asus ROG Strix RTX3080 ti
HDD: 5tb barracuda
NVMe: Samsung 1TB
Tower: I'm considering coolermaster c700m
Full water cooling build.
Would you all say its worth me actually building this? Because I heard a new generation of threadripper is coming out, and likewise with the gpu? What are your recommendations?
I have got a company that has stock of all the items I require.
Thank you all in advanced, have a great day.
Proceed to amputate the finger and let the blood flow!!
A row(as in a barney)ter is a woodmachining tool. A rout is what happens to an army that breaks, not the way you go home. That is a route, pronounced root. A router routes your internet traffic and that is why it is pronounced root-er. You live on the Isle of White, England - NOT Manhattan Island, USA. Ggrrgghh!
Revolting Pedant OFF.
Good, informative vid. Not sure if I like the Air Mini SKU, too many holes and I've several graters already! :-)
The front fan cable problem? UniFans - they only make the bloody things! Lost opportunity, many of us are
going to fetch the bin over and reach for our Austrian/Other fan stash anyway. Or not - too many holes and STILL the front doesn't breathe properly? I do wonder why they bothered with the front at all. Perhaps that is why Roman's sig plate is out of view on the cable tidy. If I wasn't fitting drives on that, I'd defo blank of the holes, I'd know they were there even if I couldn't see them. I'd hope that sig plate would come of easily too, so's to put it somewhere more appropriate. Lots of food for thought here - I like the wealth of mobo options - but I'd probably apply it to the Dynamic Mini rather than this.
“lanly”
They say you can watercool if you set it to m-atx mode.... which is just WTF. "DeLoser" can't design a case if his life depended on it. LianLi should stop giving him money.
or you just have 0 reading comprehension
The vicous recless sport known as pc building claims yet more blood tribute from an innocent victim.
Too wide. Z-height doesn't occupy desk space, X and Y do.
There's a reason why PSUs have been above or below the motherboard since forever, it's efficient packaging.
So many effin comprimises... just give us the options to have 3 fans in the bottom.. 3 fans in the top (with room for tall ram) and the two fans in the front in aswell, all at the same time... and why not supply the option to run 120 and 140 fans in all slots.... /puzzled... /buys slightly larger case from different casemaker. ... the front filter is s disaster aswell, why not create a door with a filter like the bottom.. so you can just slide the filter quickly in and out.... im not opening the case and unscrewing 6 screwd... that aint happening... just get your engineers to sort the major basics out.... when laymen can instantly point its shortcoming in 2 secs.. but casemaker cant... :(