Over the previous couple of years Lian Li’s O11 line of enclosures has taken the PC Case market by storm. You’ll be able to’t do an internet seek for “customized PC construct” or watch an internet video of individuals exhibiting off their PCs, with out seeing a large number of PC-O11s, or one other mannequin based mostly on the design.
Sadly, I’m a bit cussed. Like so many individuals on the earth, I usually let my need for uniqueness get the higher of me. I had this “everyone seems to be constructing in that case” mentality, so I’ve gone out of my technique to keep away from it. Let it by no means be mentioned that stubbornness and stupidity didn’t have a hyperlink, as a result of if the O11 Dynamic Mini is typical of the opposite der8auer badged circumstances, I’ve actually been lacking out (or presumably silly).
I understand that the O11 Dynamic Mini has been out for over a 12 months at this level (see above re: stubbornness/stupidity), however I used to be not too long ago given a construct downside and the O11D Mini regarded like the answer. My greatest buddy’s son got here to me just a few weeks in the past wanting to construct a brand new PC, and talked about desirous to get into water cooling. He doesn’t have an incredible quantity of desk area accessible in the mean time, however he needed a excessive finish gaming machine that he may additionally use for streaming and video enhancing.
His lack of desk area introduced a little bit of a problem. I’ve reviewed some smaller circumstances that, with some compromises, may very well be used for a fundamental water cooling system. I’ve additionally reviewed some monster circumstances with tons of water cooling assist, however these wouldn’t actually be perfect for his present location. What I actually needed to seek out was that unicorn so many lovers have been looking for a long time, a compact case that gives zero compromises to {hardware} or cooling. The O11 Dynamic Mini is that unicorn (effectively, excluding one small compromise, however I’ll get to that later).