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  • today.

  • I'm gonna bring you the review that no one asked for.

  • But I can't help but do because I'm super impressed with this.

  • I don't do case reviews unless they really surprise me.

  • This is Lilian Lee land Cool to kind of a dumb name.

  • But I'm gonna tell you right now we did this build at Micro Center in our last video.

  • We talked about doing a review of this case because Phil and I are both truly impressed at what you get with this case at its price point, which makes me think other case manufacturers should definitely be listening to Lian Lee.

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  • Okay, I know.

  • I said cheap and the title and cheap is completely subjective, but at the time we built this of Micro Center, this case was 89 bucks.

  • I explained why in that video, what we chose this case, it comes with three case fans that, well, I would say they don't suck, but they do if you have them as a pool fan and they blow really hard.

  • Now start with the obvious stuff, and I know it's a black case, so I'm doing the best I can tow like this so you guys can see it.

  • Um, the ventilation is plentiful, if you will, so enough so that Steve might hate it less than other things.

  • He hates more.

  • So it's one of those things where it's not just round holes or just grill a grilled cut or a mesh or hex, which is overdone.

  • In my opinion, this has what Phil calls come like an imperial grading.

  • Look, it's got these sort of like alternating long oblong slits, but we've got vents right here between the shroud and the main chamber.

  • With 2 120 millimeter fan mounts, there is room to mount a fan right there and still a radiator on top.

  • If I was to reroute that so I could actually have a 2 40 mounted rad to 40 or a 2 80 because it fits to, um, one forties or one twenties, we could fit a 360 in the front or 4 20 in the front.

  • I'll show you that in a sec, but we've obviously got a rear fan here.

  • That's only 120 millimeter capable.

  • We've got, um, the front.

  • Let's talk about the front because when it comes to ventilation, this is where a lot of companies have started adopting this more kind of a solid front panel.

  • But there is a lot of air flow that comes through this.

  • Now I'll demonstrate that once we fire the system up, but we take this panel off, you can see.

  • Although it has RGB lighting built into the frontier, it does it through thes pogo contacts there, spring loaded.

  • It's why they're called Pogo, cause they push against this, and that's where it gets its power.

  • Not only that, this also has on the backside a pigtail ready to go toe, ADM or lighting strips to it if you want to.

  • So this is addressable.

  • That's one thing to keep in mind, though it's not 12 it is addressed me.

  • So it's a three pin, and you can plug this into a motherboard with addressable RGB into control over your case.

  • Or if you don't like the instance of the motherboard we used here.

  • It's got its own lighting control up here on top that you can use to adjust colors and such.

  • But if you look at the ventilation, this is the way we have it configured.

  • There's plenty of air flow that actually comes to this because, as you can see, because it's got this sort of Ah Kong cave shape has a bigger volume of air in there, that if this were flat right in front of the fans now it also has filters that are normally in there that we took out.

  • And they are silver on this side, which is a side that would face out.

  • And the idea behind that is it gives the lighting something to sort of bounce off of.

  • So you can kind of see the silver few there now a little bit, which matches the silver.

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  • The bottom.

  • Now, by doing this, moves us on to the next thing to talk about with ventilation and that being this front piece right here.

  • So this front piece, I can't take it out because the fans already wired.

  • Is it tight?

  • End this front pieces of bracket that you can fit your fans onto you or your radiator.

  • But if you look, this is flush, which means that your wouldn't have that much room between the fans and this to keep from choking off air.

  • Because the closer the fan gets to the material, the less gap it has to pull air through.

  • The less pressure, the less flow.

  • But there are two screws up here on the top that give you three positions that you can mount this by moving it back now by moving it back means you can fit either.

  • Ah, 360 Slim rad right here and then you can put on the inside.

  • You come out your fans by removing this cover gives you up to like 80 millimeters in thickness that you can see right here.

  • But by moving this whole bracket inward because it does reposition inward, you could fit your fans on this side of it and a 3 30 millimeter radiator and push pull fans so 30 25 mil fans in front of it.

  • Or pull fans what they 60 mil rat and then not interfere with anything up top.

  • Because you got this room we have right here because we only have 2 40 or off Grady appear, which is not gonna interfere with putting a deep rad or fans.

  • So in terms of water cooling for this being a standard a TX chassis, it's extremely modular and extremely well thought out.

  • These are things that you don't typically see in a case that's under $100.

  • This is the kind of things you see in cases that are closer to $200 or at least 100 and $50 enough.

  • But for 89 bucks, it really makes me wonder how the hick Lien Lee is doing it now because this is considered a full 80 ex chassis, its overall size in footprint is probably more so of like I've had to compare its size wise.

  • I'd say it's very similar to like an H 5 10 from NZX T considered more of a mid tower, not a full tower in which usually means you're not gonna be able to fit things like e a T.

  • X chassis is.

  • Well, you can, actually, because what we found and I think I should be able to do this with the system assembled.

  • It's one of those things.

  • Like, if you do a walk around the case with it not assembled, you can talk about all the features.

  • But some of the features don't make sense once you go to building them, you like.

  • Okay, this technically says you could do this, but, you know, it doesn't do it very well.

  • So I'm gonna take my Iife.

  • It, sir, there are two screws up here on this plate, but if you take this out and you flip it and I'm trying to do this now with, uh, I have some things that side too.

  • Okay?

  • I gotta undo my install.

  • Oh, I want the Velcro.

  • Okay, So before I can take that out again because it's built in, let me show you the back panel.

  • It cheats you.

  • This is all these covers everywhere so that you can hide all of your ugly wiring.

  • Some people might say that that's ah, that's cheating.

  • Cheat every single day of my system's gonna look this clean.

  • So this is it, Ty going through there right now so you can see it's got zip tie, wire management or another type of Velcro.

  • Apparently, I used verge terminology and don't call things with cold tweezers.

  • If I could pull that out, undo all my cable management and you can see that the part that covers the cables is closer to the motherboard.

  • But you can flip it 1 80 and it moves it outward, which means you can fit in the 80 export at that point.

  • Now, look how much more clearance we have to fit in E A.

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  • X motherboard, something that doesn't usually happen with the case at this form factor at this price point, Which is why I told Phil, we have to show the audience this case.

  • This is a case we're talking, drives our sleds that lock in there so they are easy to get your drives in and out.

  • They click in there, you get three of them.

  • Those obviously fit either 2.5 inch or 3.5 inch gives us 123 4567 7 2.5 that you can fit in here for 5 3.5 And if you want to use double sided sticky tape, you could fit a whole bunch of SS D's right here.

  • Uh, why did backwards?

  • And because it's got these giant openings right here which don't have grown mints, that's the one thing I wish they'd done.

  • Graham.

  • It's right here.

  • The truth.

  • That's like really the only critique I have about this case.

  • Rubber grommets would be nice if you could just put it easily.

  • Three of them.

  • 123 right there so you could fit 10 2.5 inch drives in terms of graphics, part because this thing does not stick up any higher than where the motherboard socket is.

  • Like the slot for the PC, you could fit a graphics card that's long enough that would like, Well, I'm not many millimeters that is probably says in the manual.

  • I don't have it in front of me now moving along to the back here in terms of expandability, though you do get well.

  • 1234567 slots, which is pretty standard for a T X um, of expansion.

  • There would be town cards, and also our stuff obviously depend on your motherboard.

  • But if we look in the back here in another cover right here, and there's another feature under there that I found while we were building that I wasn't even expecting.

  • But I run into this issue before, which may be really excited about this.

  • It's got this little cover which technically, you could also or you could be like.

  • I really don't get why this is here unless it's just Phil called it the Commander Pro Mount, like just tape it to it, right?

  • But in terms of the cable management, this gives you a stupid amount of cheating to just be like, OK, look, it's even got this knot right here, right?

  • So when I've got my cable right here, going to my that's that's for the cooler just kind of stuck it through that notch, left it inside there and then just no shoved it down.

  • This cover is that ugliness, Which is why, when you first saw that we started this video doing that, you could see was the pretty SSD and the two cables running to everything else was under all these cheater covers things that again for 90 bucks.

  • I'm not sure how they're able to do this, because every time you take a piece of steel like this, and then you've gotta have a bend it.

  • So it goes on like this machine that oppress breaking.

  • The thing comes down and more bends it right.

  • And every time there's a bend or a drill hole or a thread, it adds cost to manufacturing and tooling.

  • Let's talk about this Dr Cage down here.

  • But if you look down here, there's always hold.

  • So there's one to discovering.

  • 13456789 And this is on a sled or like a track, so you could move this forward and back.

  • It's kind of hard because the cables are hitting it.

  • So depending on the length of your power supply and you want to run a front radiator, you could move this back and then you could have room for your radiator.

  • All right, so now I'm gonna go and put this all back together because one of the other things we have to talk about still is air flow.

  • It's like, Okay, J all this stuff is cool, but if it's not cool, then none of it matters, right?

  • You're absolutely correct.

  • So let me put this back together, get all exactly how I had it, so that we can then measure and see how well the airflow does.

  • So in terms of ventilation on the top as well, the radiator is offset.

  • So what that allows us is to take our 1 20 millimeter radiator and have it pushed to the edge of the case so that it doesn't interfere with our mother board.

  • Because a lot of motherboards have tall heat sinks now, which can interfere with radiators and fans once they hang down.

  • Or you can install them in a more traditional slot if you want their slots there and they're so you could go right down the middle if they're just fans.

  • The only thing is like in terms of build order, it makes sense to put your motherboard in and then attach all your cables before you do the radiator, Which I didn't do this.

  • Of course, I was all like trying to get up in there before we do our air flow test.

  • When we also talk about connectivity.

  • That's our color button and end this for mode.

  • So see his color.

  • Emma's mode.

  • That's our controller.

  • We gotta reset button a power button, headphone jack, which is a combo jack to USB three point.

  • Oh, and then what would have been a sea?

  • So I've got the front filters on here.

  • I've taken the top filter off is just magnetic, so it just goes there.

  • But I hate these filters, and this one's got some creases in it.

  • Have been nice to it.

  • So if you look at it kind of an angle, you can see there.

  • Sykes increases in there, which is really ugly.

  • So I just would rather look at the mesh top.

  • Okay, so it's kind of ghetto, but would have done Here is I've taped a paper towel, has a little bit of weight that can lift it.

  • Then we know it's got get static pressure in front of the front two fans if you hear any fan noise, by the way, I have that black fan going over there because outside of the semi truck and the sound is bugging me so that white noise is stopping the truck from pissing me off.

  • Let's talk about the way these fans are connected.

  • So the top two fans are connected to Corsair, which is controlled by Cubes.

  • This does not have an operating system installed on it yet, so this is only gonna be motherboard control.

  • And whatever the default control is for the top fans through the H 100 I probe whatever it is.

  • And then the rear fan is connected to the motherboard chassis header.

  • The front two are actually connected to CPU and CPU optional.

  • With all that said, what happens that's being sucked in away a minute.

  • I know that fen backwards.

  • All right, here we go.

  • Take to this one, have a keyboard and mouse because I'm gonna go into the bios because I'm like, Well, it's probably going to go to like the super silent setting out of the box so it's going turns back on.

  • That fan is now flipped around, only that it's actually moving.

  • Now the top one is kind of sad, because by default, Corsair does go right to its lowest rpm setting, which is kind of sad, but you're gonna just all that was like you later.

  • So I want to see right now.

  • If I just pop this front cover off, does that go up more?

  • No bit.

  • Right?

  • So how much of that is going to be these front filters?

  • Yeah, So it definitely does affect air flow.

  • There's no doubt about it.

  • It's not solid.

  • All the fans are wondering really slow.

  • So let's do this.

  • I'm just gonna go to fan speed control full speed.

  • So you were getting slightly positive?

  • You can see it kind of pushing out a little bit of pressure.

  • Seems like it's actually impeding the Air Force because of the fact that the case that front and flows so much in until the Radiator Fans ramp, which I can't do right now.

  • Honestly, this is plenty of air flow, and these fans are so quiet because they're the stock ones, right?

  • They say 1500 rpm.

  • But they really are quiet.

  • So anyway, I just wanted to share this particular system or this case with you guys because I'm telling you right now, what you get for the price to me is extremely just shocking.

  • The health thought it is in terms of installation, the modularity, the fact that it can stick big components, big graphics cards, big motherboards and things that you typically wouldn't find in this form factor by foreign factor.

  • I mean, Mitt Tower, it's got decent enough airflow.

  • And by putting in better fans later on, you could even improve that.

  • All right, well, you know, that's kind of just are really unprofessional.

  • Kind of a walk round of this case, the land Cool, too.

  • From Lian Lee.

  • I'm telling you right now, this this is my new recommendation for someone like I got 100 bucks or less that's been on the case.

  • Other manufacturers would be paying attention because typically, you're not gonna get anywhere close to this level of modularity.

  • The fact that we could fit in a TX motherboard if we want the fact that we could fit like a 400 millimeter graphics card, which means we could take something like the gigantic strict.

  • So the trio or something like that and shove it in here and it's gonna have plenty of air flow, not impede with anything at the bottom.

  • You could fit a 2 40 off to 80 or another to 40 or 360 or 4 20 up in the front and water.

  • Cool the crap out of this.

  • And then, by taking out the harder of cage of the body myself room down there for your pump and all that stuff, or you can attach it to the front of the radiator in the front.

  • Filling the options on this are insane.

  • And like I said, you can fit natively.

  • 1234567 So you could natively fit 7 2.5 inch s Esteves All right, you guys something to think about this case right here.

  • Like I said, I know I said cheapen the description or in the title, But that's because to me, what you get for this chassis for that price makes it definitely a value.

  • So you guys tell me what you think of this case.

  • It also comes in white.

  • I almost got the white one, which we've been a lot easier feet of film today.

  • But I got the black one because I want to go for this kind of block out.

  • Look.

  • Anyway, thanks for watching guys.

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