The Hardware Review – Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic Razer Edition Case

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My current rig pretty much dates back to April 2015 which is when the main guts of the system were acquired. Back then I was going to be keeping the machine on the floor so a big meaty case without much in the way of glass panels or twinkling lights and with a focus on dustproofing was the order of the day so I went for the Cooler Master Cosmos II but since then I’ve stopped sharing a desk with the Mrs, gotten an electric height adjustable desk and moved the rig topside which has meant a revaluation of previous priorities in what I was looking for in a case.

The Cosmos is an amazing case, have no doubt but having the huge imposing thing on my right, plus my concerns over the straining of my desk motors in trying to lift the behemoth that is the Cosmos (22Kg, 48.5 lbs!) meant that it was time for it to go. Enter stage left then (from the Cooler Master perspective at least!) is the Lian Li PC-011 Dynamic “Designed by Razer” Edition. A mid-tower, glass and aluminium case weighing in at a relatively svelte 10.1kg.

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Time to get to work on this transfer project/review courtesy of Caseking.De and Overclockers.co.uk (European distributors for Lian Li, thanks guys!), I also got some additional goodies to bring my drab and dreary rig into the era of RGB goodness and AIO water-cooling.

First up, the parts I’ll be moving are:

MSI X99S XPower AC E-ATX motherboard

Intel i7-5960X (Haswell-E 8C/16T)

32GB of Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400

NVIDIA Titan X(p)

Kingston SSDNow 240GB (OS)

Samsung 850 Evo 1TB (Games)

WD Black 4TB (Data)

EVGA SuperNOVA 1200 P2 80+ Platinum PSU

Not making the cut into the new case is my trusty Noctua NH-U12S CPU cooler which has always been a reliable cooler but was perhaps slightly underpowered to cool the 5960X overclocked to 4.0 GHz.

New goodies include:

Lian Li PC-O11 Razer Edition (Synapse 3.0 compatible)

1 Lian Li BR 120 fan with RGB controller

3 Lian Li Bora 120 fans

1 Raijintek Orcus 360 RGB AIO cooler

Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut TIM

Arctic Silver ArctiClean TIM remover and surface purifier

In the Box

The Lian Li PC-O11 specs break down as follows:

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272mm (W) x 446mm (H) x 445mm (D)

10.1Kg (22.27 lbs)

0.8mm steel body with a brushed aluminium front panel and tempered glass windows on the front and side

Takes E-ATX, ATX and Micro-ATX sized motherboards

3x 360mm radiator mountings forfeiting fan slots able to take a 90mm (top), 50mm (front), 85mm (bottom)

Dust filters on the bottom, top and side

Up to 3 3.5” drives and 6 2.5” drives

2x USB 3.0

1x USB 3.1

1x Audio/mic jack

Maximum CPU cooler height 155mm

Maximum PSU length 255mm

Space for 8 cards