Lian Li O11 Air Mini with an air install - how to guide with features and review
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
- This is a video on the Lian Li O11 Air Mini - a tiny case with a modular design and some brilliant highlights including a dual chamber layout, room for a ATX Power Supply Unit and plenty of fans. In this build guide, I'm using the standard included fans and a Noctua cooler to see just how well it works out of the box. I'm also showing the awesome features of the case and the problems along the way.
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For reference this build includes:
Asus ROG Strix Z690 E Gaming WiFi motherboard • Asus ROG Strix Z690 E ...
Intel Core i9-12900K CPU
16GB Crucial DDR5 48000 Mhz RAM
Corsair RM850X PSU - • Corsair RM850x Power S...
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Gigabyte RTX 3090 OC vision
Highlights of this case include:
Excellent flexibility for building
Multiple mounting points for SSDs
Great cooling (Core i9-12900K ran at 80 degrees C with a Cinebench run)
Lowlights:
Cable management may be tough if you have a lot of SSDs and RGB fans
Only fits 120mm fans on the bottom
Specs of the case:
Materials 4mm Aluminium panel, 0.8mm Mesh Panel, 4.0mm Tempered Glass
Colour White
Motherboard Type E-ATX (Max 280mm wide)/ATX/Micro-ATX/Mini-ITX
PSU Type/Position ATX(Max 200mm)
I/O Panel 2 x USB 3.0
1 x USB 3.1 Type-C
1 x HD Audio
Fans Included: 1 x 120mm PWM (Rear)
2 x 140mm PWM Fan(Front)
Optional: 3 x 120mm / 140mm x 2 (Top)
2 x 120mm (Side)
2 x 120mm / 2 x 140mm (Base)
2 x 120mm / 2 x 140mm (Front)
1 x 120mm (rear)
Water Cooling Side: 240mm
Front: 240mm or 280mm
Top: 240mm or 280mm
Base: 240mm or 280mm
CPU Cooler Optional
Max. 170mm
GPU Max. 362mm
PCIe Expansion Slots 7 or 5
Drive Bays 2 x 2.5” SSD + 4 X 3.5” HDD
6 x 2.5” SSD
Dimensions W x H x D
288mm x 384mm x 400mm
Weight Net: 9.5KG
Gross: 10.9KG
Net:20.9lb
Gross:23.98lb
Dust Filter 1 x Removable bottom tray
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A thermal paste tube with a built in spreader is the coolest piece of tech I've ever seen, whoever thought of that deserves a raise.
It's the simple things in life
Noctua FTW
im putting my prebuilt which is slightly modded into this case in like 3 months im so excited. it looks amazing
What a detailed thorough review! One of the best ones I've seen on this case. The beefy VRM issue on Strix boards is why I opted to go with a smaller Thermalright 110mm dual radiator heat sink for my build. It still gets the job done with the only caveat of using 92mm fans.
Thanks!
Thank you so much, it’s 3 am right now and I just got finished building my new pc all thanks to your help. Let’s hope she works!!!!
Glad to help. Hope you enjoyed enough to subscribe 🦐 and enjoy your new machine
@@TheProvokedPrawn she works and she kicks butt! Be blessed and stay safe 🙏
By the way - you aren't using the rubber gromits correctly - you should push the neck part through the hole in the brackets you are using, it's why it has the "X" to help you remove and push the rubber in. Metal on metal means you are losing the whole purpose of the anti vibration part!
I am in love with this case. Thanks, I really enjoyed your video.
Thanks for watching
i just got my black version, and i can feel airflow thru just in 2 minutes of have in it! :) i love it!
im building my first build in this case next week and i cant wait
Enjoy! It's great
Me too. My first build and the same case. Can't wait for a delivery. Do you still have this case? Only thing that bothers me is a lack of dust filters. Can you please share your experience?
@@SulaTheWise so how dusty it is?
@@khelgarironfist3301 I can't compare it to other cases and region where I live is quite dusty. Lower bottom with filter is great. I disassemble front and top panels to wipe of the dust once in a while. Every 2-3 weeks. However there is almost no dust inside of case. At least no visible dust in gpu. Little bit of dust on the motherboard close to rear side, but I have no fan on the rear side, so there are big holes. Overall I can say that case is great, I didn't expected such results, cause as I said, I live in dusty region.
@@SulaTheWise yea i've read that default panels do good job of catching most of the dust despite lack of dust filters.
I also grabbed the black version of this case and gonna do a build innit with the default fans. Love the chunky style; wish there was a mesh panel option instead of glass though.
that cool with the brackets you can mound ssd on both sides one side upright other side horisontal you have also a very calming voice, honestly lian li cases has always been my favorite they are so well thought out cases, not odd at all i have a chromax nh d15 and i love it cooling my 5950x ideling around max 40c
I manage to fit 3 120mm Unifans at the bottom since you can just screw middle fan in
Shouldn't the Noctua cooler have been mounted left to right instead of top to bottom?
yeh my mb is amd and my cpu cooler fan sits in the other direction a jonsbo cr3000 and sits over the ddr stcks fine
Great vieeo, thank you.
Two more fans at the bottom would be better for the GPU, as the CPU as well.
To confirm, putting the radiator on the backside of the case won't cause any issues? I do like that it give you a bit more room on the side.
Side rad placement is arguably the best in this case. as long as the highest point of the loop isn’t the AIO you should be fine
Ordered this case because my existing one has too little airflow (solid front panel) and my NH-D15 suffers because of it. BTW second fan didn't fit for me ether, had to order 12 inch one.
Hey, great video as always! This doesn't have anything thing with the video to do, but I am asking anyway. I have the cooler master mk730 and I am having some problems with the software. So I have downloaded the master plus software but when I try to use it, it just says
. This makes me question if this may be the wrong software for the keyboard. I have tried to download it several times but never works. plz help me, I have been wondering since Christmas.
Se puede hacer en AM4??
is this stanley parable voice talkingabout this case ☺
Good game
Very informative. Thanks
The way of the air is the correct way for Air Mini, instead of liquid cooling.
Great video, very informative and appreciated! When you applied the thermal paste, the cap had a sort of spreader that you used to spread the paste on the CPU I noticed. Is that standard? Do you recommend that way of applying paste?
It depends who you purchase it from tbh. The thermal paste application is a source of much debate, but it works for me and gets good temps.
wonder how the hell that hsf will take a fresh air?
I have the same case and NH-D15 and I'm wondering before I go and try, the way you oriented D15 and 3090 that has chips at the back, does the orientation of D15 helps suck the heat of the 3090 back plate, it looks like you might gain few C on the CPU side, but it seems your helping 3090 to cool backside.
Have you try either way and if it makes any difference?
you mentioned that you did benchmarks, but I'm curios how are the temps in this setup, I'm thinking of getting this case but did not see many talk about the temps on stock setup or other setups.
please could you upload another video on how the case is performing in terms of temps. Loved the video, fantastic job
I'm afraid I now have it with RGB instead but i tested it with Cinebench and found it ran the CPU 10 degrees cooler than it did in the mini snow edition with the same CPU cooler. So I think it's actually really good in default layout. Even without extra fans.
@@TheProvokedPrawn what about the gpu ? I mainly play games and I’m wondering if its temps would be better
@@Abdurrahman-ru5bz if I recall correctly I got about 79 degrees max under heavy benchmarking on my 3090
Question: Will the back HDD cage fit 5.25 sized fan controllers?
I don’t have that usb plug in next to my 24 pin motherboard plug. I don’t have that usb port anywhere on my motherboard I think. It’s a asus rog b550a
should i get this or 216 man
I'm not fully getting the use of anti-vibration rubbers on SSDs. Solid. State. Disk.
vibration from other things? like fans causing noise? Dunno.
the rubber can protect the metals from grinding on top of each other (like the screw on the plate or the bottom of the drive on the plate) when used as intended (like Simon West mentions above)
Why did you choose that orientation for the cpu cooler? I think it sucks in warmer air from the gpu.
The vrm on the motherboard is in the way of standard orientation.
@@TheProvokedPrawn yes, this. I just built mine but I used the standard left-right orientation with 2 fan configuration on my NH-D15. I actually have the second fan touching the top of a few of my RAM sticks to get the glass panel closed like it should (I have just a sliver of clearance between the fan and glass). I have 2 140s at the front, 1 140 in the bottom, and two 140s on the top, along with the included 120 mm at the back.
@@Magnosummit hello. just to confirm. which mobo do you use? and what kind of ram? and youre using nhd15 with 2 fans on this very case right? im planning to build a similar setup but with standard orientation of nhd15 with 2 fans
@@cult2 also, I forgot this... If you planned on putting 140 mm fans at the top of the case, this is hard to do with a full-size ATX motherboard. Mine has a plastic bit at the top that sticks out from the board and interferes with fan placement. 120 mm fans fit just fine though. My build, after some tweaking that you can't see in the photos from the link I sent you, now has 3 140 mm intake (2 front, 1 bottom) and three 120 mm exhaust fans (2 top, 1 at the back).
I believe in one of the original photos, you can see how I had to rig one of the 140 mm fans at the top before switching to 120s.
@@cult2 if you see like 5 comments later, it's because UA-cam won't allow links in posts because it probably thinks they're spam. If you want to use the 2 fan configuration on the NH-D15, you'll need to have extremely low profile ram. I have Corsair Vengeance LPX and with those, I had to place the second fan all the way down to clear the side panel. The fan housing sits on top of some of the sticks of RAM, but this hasn't caused a problem yet, and I have enough clearance to remove the side panel without making contact with any internal parts. My motherboard is MSI MPG Z690 GAMING EDGE WIFI DDR4.
How many plastic peels did you do? 🤣
A lot
That's a nice burger you got there
I see in the parts list you have a 240/280 AIO for up top. Can you get a 280mm AIO on top with an ATX mother board?
I really like the case and, of course, the video. All I have I a 280mm AIO.
Help🙂
I'm not sure I'm afraid. You'd have to check with Lian Li. I'd just be guessing and I don't want to mislead you
Is this case fit artic freezer ii 240mm radiator on the side?
It can take a 240mm rad on the side, yes. You can see me doing that here - ua-cam.com/video/XUoExOK6PD4/v-deo.html
@@TheProvokedPrawn Thank you
Hamburger PC!!!
Was looking for this comment, the odyssey has evol.
New subscriber here.
I am planning to build the same configuration for music production. Will the cooler able to maintain the temperature? I don't want to use AIO for the risk associated with them. Thank you.
It does work, yes. You can look at undervolting the CPU for cooler temps but tbh it'll be fine.
@@TheProvokedPrawn Thank you.
Do you still have the stock fans that came with this case? Id be happy to buy them off you.
You still want them?
Who makes those white sleeved cables for the PSU?
Corsair. Premium PSU cables.
You sound exactly like Chyrosran22
No
🤘
That thermal paste. Lol!
You want to destroy the beauty of the case? put that poop cooler😂
wonder if you think that the MOBO plastics are part of building process😂
best build: No RGB
can you place an sfx power supply ?
It's designed for ATX PSUs but I think you can get adapters?
had to watch this on mute, the way you talk and the boom of it was unbearable.
These open glass panels are not for air coolers, looks like it has random garbage inside.
ok then
OMG, did you use a whole tube of thermal paste? Completely lost all respect for you. And that cooler placement, using your GPU to cook your CPU. This is just a horrible video.
And you're a horrible person. So nevermind
wonder how the hell that hsf will take a fresh air?