Who here are waiting for the RTX 3000 series? - Part 2

[skrekro]

@enenyi

That's the problem with my use case. I have like 4 ssd, 2 hdd so the cage is used. I find fractal design, nzxt and phanteks much better cases to build in and better, more solid feel to it. Lian li feels cheap but the price...

 

[occifer]

you song can already

My risk mah.
Can go right, can go wrong.
Yeah this doesnt look good which is why i put minimal 50% for 1 only lol.
Watever happens happens.
And I will say it again. I am not advocating anyone to do preorders.


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[skrekro]

My risk mah.
Can go right, can go wrong.
Yeah this doesnt look good which is why i put minimal 50% for 1 only lol.
Watever happens happens.
I say again. I am not advocating anyone to do preorders.


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You brave. If your order fulfill, come back and laugh at everyone. If wait 3 months not fulfilled, don't come complain ah. But by 3 months, new gpu probably announced.

 

[Mach3.2]

@enenyi

That's the problem with my use case. I have like 4 ssd, 2 hdd so the cage is used. I find fractal design, nzxt and phanteks much better cases to build in and better, more solid feel to it. Lian li feels cheap but the price...

Having 3.5" HDDs really limit your case options, and as I've found out, simply shoving it in the back panel area or places with no air flow will cook those drives.

I briefly ran 3* 7.2k RPM drives in the bottom HDD cage of my Meshify 2 XL without air flow and one of the non-helium drives hit 59 degrees celsius. End up I have to move one of my 140mm in take fan down to the drive bay area so those drives don't cook themselves.

 

[occifer]

You brave. If your order fulfill, come back and laugh at everyone. If wait 3 months not fulfilled, don't come complain ah. But by 3 months, new gpu probably announced.

3 months? I wont wait so long lol.

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[enenyi]

@enenyi

That's the problem with my use case. I have like 4 ssd, 2 hdd so the cage is used. I find fractal design, nzxt and phanteks much better cases to build in and better, more solid feel to it. Lian li feels cheap but the price...

I think you are thinking too highly of the O11D haha

The O11D is meant to be a showcase piece. Don't expect a casing with glass panels on 2 sides to be functionally well-built, like you wouldn't consider Corsair's 570X or Inwin 805 to be that functional. Cases like Fractal, NZXT and Phanteks usually have only 1 glass side, so functionality and rigidity is there due to basic physics. For O11D, you are technically paying for well-built aluminum, so it is up to your creativity to make the O11D work for your use case.

But if your use case still involves multiple disk drives that cannot be resolved creatively in the O11D (e.g. spreading them out like satay on the base of the front chamber), then I suggest a NAS-friendly casing like Fractal 7 would be better. Also if your use case requires frequent transportation, there are other cases that deal with this requirement. Don't let the casing limit what you can or cannot do to manage your given requirements.

Edit: okay I assumed the O11D haha. If u referring to the original O11, then the above may not be applicable coz the O11 is significantly different from O11D.

 

[Charlie_Zhan]

I hated building in o11. If you don't play water-cooling, the casing is quite empty and ugly. Then you add 9x fans, headache. Cable management also soso only I would even put it more towards bad, the extra psu slot at the back 99.9% of the users won't use one. It honestly feels cheap compared to phanteks and nzxt cases. I was surprised when I switched to it from enthoo evolv.

try the new O11 dynamic instead

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[zleipnir]

I also using a O11D. Most spacious mid tower for custom watercooling loop with 2 X 360mm rads. Get the O11D XL for the overkill lol

Having used a variety of cases over the years, from Xigmatek to NZXT to Corsair to Fractal and now Lian Li, I find the O11D the best to work with in terms of cable management space. Precisely because 99.9% of users won't use the extra psu slot, so u have tons of room to stuff your excess cables (if u get lazy) into that area as long as no HDD drives to block that area. Compare that to the usual casing layout where the most generous mid-tower ATX (some full tower even) gives you max 2.5cm of width to stuff all your cables at the back or risk forcing the back panel shut. Also the utilization of space is maximised in the O11D. Case in point - the side fan mounts provides you airflow from the back panel, where this space would usually be dead space used to mount HDD/SSD drives even in the most flexible of configurations in standard boxes like the Fractal R6. Granted, if using air cooling, O11D is too spacious, can try for O11Dmini instead. Otherwise I think this is probably the most well-thought out casing in a while (another example - don't deal with stock casing fans instead, just bring your own fans).

 

[crystalnox]

Was there a recent 3080 TUF drop on Amazon? I see the listing marked as Best Seller now.

 

[bunnypangsai]

use google drive unlimited drive

Having 3.5" HDDs really limit your case options, and as I've found out, simply shoving it in the back panel area or places with no air flow will cook those drives.

I briefly ran 3* 7.2k RPM drives in the bottom HDD cage of my Meshify 2 XL without air flow and one of the non-helium drives hit 59 degrees celsius. End up I have to move one of my 140mm in take fan down to the drive bay area so those drives don't cook themselves.

 

[zleipnir]

hmm... no leh.

Was there a recent 3080 TUF drop on Amazon? I see the listing marked as Best Seller now.

 

[skrekro]

It was the o11d. I think other factors were if you using AIO, you need to get 360mm which pushes the cost up. 6x more fans and it's recommended to use the same brands or you end up with a mess of a wire. I was using the coolermaster 240mm aio and ll120 which weren't compatible with each other's hub (hate proprietary stuff).

Not arguing or whatever ah just an opinion of the o11d. If you want to buy it, go all out. The case if asymmetrical a bit ugly.

 

[Mach3.2]

use google drive unlimited drive

I have plenty of onedrive space on my school onedrive accounts, but I prefer to have my own HDDs rather than to deal with the reoccuring cost with cloud storage. It's also relatively cheap to shuck those 10TB WD Elements.

 

[CopySeeSewDye]

This case good?

O11D series is pretty popular for its design and is quite spacious. Initially I wanted a meshify c as my compact atx case cos of limited table space, but after the release of the o11mini I went to buy it cos its pretty much compact but have support for all mobo size and doesn't have gpu clearance issues.

 

[tmtmy2001]

O11D user here. Aesthetics aside, I like the fact that GPU can be mounted vertically without affecting thermals because of good clearance from the side panel. In vertical configuration, you can pair that with 3 bottom intake fans to feed fresh air to the GPU and achieve very decent thermals.

Got my 3080 from taobao at a reasonable price a few months ago....but nowadays even the price is no different compared to the scalpers pricing on Carousell. Bad time to build a PC indeed.

 

[Outramkia]

Having used a variety of cases over the years, from Xigmatek to NZXT to Corsair to Fractal and now Lian Li, I find the O11D the best to work with in terms of cable management space. Precisely because 99.9% of users won't use the extra psu slot, so u have tons of room to stuff your excess cables (if u get lazy) into that area as long as no HDD drives to block that area. Compare that to the usual casing layout where the most generous mid-tower ATX (some full tower even) gives you max 2.5cm of width to stuff all your cables at the back or risk forcing the back panel shut. Also the utilization of space is maximised in the O11D. Case in point - the side fan mounts provides you airflow from the back panel, where this space would usually be dead space used to mount HDD/SSD drives even in the most flexible of configurations in standard boxes like the Fractal R6. Granted, if using air cooling, O11D is too spacious, can try for O11Dmini instead. Otherwise I think this is probably the most well-thought out casing in a while (another example - don't deal with stock casing fans instead, just bring your own fans).

U mentioned o11d is too spacious for air cooling.. But it cannot fit noctua dh15..not even the arctic cooling freezer 34 esports duo. And just 0.5mm taller than scythe fuma 2

 

[enenyi]

U mentioned o11d is too spacious for air cooling.. But it cannot fit noctua dh15..not even the arctic cooling freezer 34 esports duo. And just 0.5mm taller than scythe fuma 2

I guess you mixed up spacious with CPU cooler clearance.

Spacious as in after you put in a CPU cooler tower that fits, there is still a lot of empty space left over that makes the casing look bigger than it is supposed to be. An extreme example is putting an ITX system inside a full tower casing. There are some cases in the market (ITX cases in particular) that even if you put in the smallest air cooler inside there is not much empty space left in the casing for air to flow.

This compared to the CPU cooler clearance which is an entire different subject.

 

[Outramkia]

Having 3.5" HDDs really limit your case options, and as I've found out, simply shoving it in the back panel area or places with no air flow will cook those drives.

I briefly ran 3* 7.2k RPM drives in the bottom HDD cage of my Meshify 2 XL without air flow and one of the non-helium drives hit 59 degrees celsius. End up I have to move one of my 140mm in take fan down to the drive bay area so those drives don't cook themselves.

Where did u get the meshify 2 from? Thanks

 

[Outramkia]

I guess you mixed up spacious with CPU cooler clearance.

Spacious as in after you put in a CPU cooler tower that fits, there is still a lot of empty space left over that makes the casing look bigger than it is supposed to be. An extreme example is putting an ITX system inside a full tower casing. There are some cases in the market (ITX cases in particular) that even if you put in the smallest air cooler inside there is not much empty space left in the casing for air to flow.

This compared to the CPU cooler clearance which is an entire different subject.

I assumed air cooling is a type of cpu cooling using traditional heatsink fan. When people use the term water cooling i assume it refers to the aio and other closed loop liquid cooling for cpu and probably gpu.

 

[Mach3.2]

Where did u get the meshify 2 from? Thanks

Mine is the 2 XL, I bought from convergent on lazada.

About 2-3 weeks back PC Themes have stock for the meshify 2, but I already ordered from convergent