Over the previous few years Lian Li’s O11 line of enclosures has taken the PC Case market by storm. You’ll be able to’t do an online seek for “customized PC construct” or watch a web based video of individuals exhibiting off their PCs, with out seeing a large number of PC-O11s, or one other mannequin primarily based 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 solution 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 yr at this level (see above re: stubbornness/stupidity), however I used to be lately given a construct downside and the O11D Mini seemed like the answer. My finest 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 house obtainable for the time being, however he wished a excessive finish gaming machine that he might additionally use for streaming and video enhancing.
His lack of desk house offered a little bit of a problem. I’ve reviewed some smaller circumstances that, with some compromises, could possibly be used for a primary water cooling system. I’ve additionally reviewed some monster circumstances with tons of water cooling assist, however these wouldn’t actually be very best for his present location. What I actually wished to search out was that unicorn so many fanatics 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, apart from one small compromise, however I’ll get to that later).
