Brilliant air focused case - it's as good as the reviews say it is!
by Nathan CombenIt looks really good too. I took me a few months to decide on a case. My previous case was a Corsair 650D. Some readers will still have been in school when I bought that ;) After reading the various reviews online, I thought the PSU position would be a cabling challenge, but my Corsair AX 860 modular PSU has long enough power cables (24pin cable is 610mm) and they all reached easily. In fact, its the position of the PSU that makes this case a marvel. It's really clean and despite some reviewer comments, there is enough space behind the motherboard tray to position cables - no doubt aided by the case's cable management. I replaced the lower two fans with existing Noctua NF12 and added another on the exhaust, but I've left the two 180mm Lian Li ARGB fans at the front (although I use Fan Control to keep them quiet) and I've left the top positions clear. I have an i7-11700K overclocked to 5Ghz with NH-D15 chromax.black and RTX 3070Ti FE, and unless I'm ripping/gaming/photo editing, most of the fans are not even spinning! The important thing is that when gaming on my RTX with a mild overclock, it runs 10 degrees Celsius cooler than in the old case and maintains 2.1ghz! Finally, at some point I will replace the front ARGB fans with Noctua equivalents as they won't stop or go lower than 400rpm with a slight ring when there's no background noise. As I said at the start. It's an incredible case for the money! Well done Lian Li.
