Best features of the Lian Li Dynamic Evo XL and some bad ones

hello this is the provoke prawn and this is the Leon Lee Dynamic Evo XL in this video I'm going to show you why the dynamic Evo XL is a fantastic case and all the different things that you can do with it I've built in it in a variety of different ways in order to be able to show you the features and the highlights of this case as well as talking about the low lights because there are some as you'll see some pretty interesting builds here I've got the Leon Lee p28 uni fans along with the Galahad 2 performance Edition cooler you'll see that I've mounted it in the reverse format with an upside down motherboard as well as an upright GPU mounting so I've set it up in a number of ways including with Leon Lee's sl120 V2 fans and a push-pull configuration on the all-in-one cooler that you'll see in the top so there's a lot of different things to talk about here and a lot of different highlights now this is an upgrade to the previous Dynamic Evo which is a fantastic case and was my daily driver you can see that on the left and the XL version on the right right hand side the XL is obviously a bit larger with the flexibility to do crazy things like have up to three 420 mil radiators for example and two fans at the rear as well as some interesting highlights such as being able to mount four 120 mil fans on the top of the case now the specs say three but it is actually possible to mount four as I've shown you or alternatively you could do three and then 220 mils at the back and obviously you can use 140 mils and because the amount of space up here you can easily do a push pull setup so this was a 360 mil radiator but obviously you could put a 420 mil radiator up there as an alternative so loads of different things here there are also hidden little things that aren't immediately obvious for example you can remove that support bar down the front of the case which then means that you have two glass panels alongside each other so a lot more visibility of what's going on inside the case and a lot nicer overall finish to it as you see your components makes the most of the RGB lighting if you've got it and more now this case is interesting immediately because you can format it with the motherboard in different positions so it has top middle and bottom positions And depending on where you position that actually it makes changes to the overall design of the case and what you can do with it you'll see in the three different formats here for example you have access to a lot of different cable management positions above and below and depending on where you put it this will actually change the layout of the build now the motherboard tray is removable and it's held in place with a few different thumb screws on the back and then on the tray itself this is fantastic because you can also attach your motherboard to it and then remove the tray which makes life a lot easier during the build process if you decide you want to make a change or if you need to do something like access the rear of the motherboard in order to install a back plate for an all-in-one cooler with standoffs for example and then you can just do that and then slot the motherboard back in or adjust the position of it for example you can see I've just moved it up to the top end now there are a couple of different plates and then slot in above or below the motherboard depending on where you've put it in and so it's really easy to adjust and it's all just thumb screws so it's really simple to reposition this is a really roomy case obviously being an XL case so you can see just as a crazy example I've got a stack of eight fans there and just piled up just to show you how much space there is at the top obviously you can do push pull and if you have a custom loop system you've got multiple radiator potential in here up to three 420 mil radiators or just loads of fans in different positions and the setup looks really nice there you can see comfortably you can fit for 120 mil fans there and then even two at the back You Can't Screw all the fans in necessarily though the very edges of them for example so really you're only meant to put three 120s on the top if you want to screw them in properly and you do need to account for the gaps and things in there that but it is worth doing and I've done a lot more in-depth video on this case if you'd like to see the guide on all these sorts of things I'll link to that in the description there are a lot of other small highlights too for example if you mount three 120 mil fans on that side tray so at the rear as you can see it on the case here and you have gaps at the top and bottom but there's these blanking plates included in the case which you can just position over those gaps and hide them away you can install this on the front or the back so you can change it according to your own personal preference and that just neatens things up quite a bit another highlight is the included anti-sag bracket for your GPU now this will work with both eatx and ATX motherboards and it's really easy to install as well it just requires you to take Health a couple of the different motherboard screws that screwed into the standoffs replace them with some taller standoffs and then screw the bracket into that you can then adjust the height and sort of support from that bracket with just a simple button on the bottom this makes for an interesting setup and should ensure no sag over time now the installation of your GPU is also really interesting because it's toolless as well so there's some thumb screws at the back here and then you just move these clamps over you can see from a close-up look that they then slot down over the top so usually all those different slots would have screws in them in most cases and you'd need to unscrew a number of different back plates before you could then install your graphics card that's no longer the case it's really easy to just open that panel up push your graphics card in and then slot those down obviously while doing that you can then adjust the GPU anti-sag bracket and position it so it'll keep things nice and neat and should ensure your GPU sits nicely over time on the front of the case you have the i o which is four USB A's a USBC and a 3.5 mil connection obviously plenty of different connectivity options there which is pretty handy if you want easy access to a multi Institute of USB ports it is worth noting however that this is one downside potentially that I'll get to in a second but you can reposition it so you can see as standard is on the front but you can easily move it over to the side there's just a small clip but essentially a button that you press and then you can just lift that out and then you can reposition it into the other two possible positions adjust the cabling and move the cable hook and then you can position your i o on the side of the case as you can see it here so give different access so you can customize the fit and design of your case to suit your own personal needs which is really nice it makes it nice and accessible now you can also remove it and move it to the rear of the case although I'm not really sure of the purpose of this when you consider that most of your motherboard USB will be at the back there anyway now I said this is a downside and that's because we're the four usba connections you have two USB connection cables now most modern motherboards will only have a single connector on the right hand side here below the 24 pin power supply cable and Lee and Lee even notes in the manual for this case that you will need two ports and unfortunately they don't Supply a splitter but you can buy optional accessories from elsewhere like this cheap splitter that I've got off Amazon which should in theory enable you to plug in two cables into it and split the source and then put that into one so you should then be able to use the four ports on your motherboard if you don't have this splitter then obviously you're only going to be able to use two of those front panel USB connections Which is less than ideal so a bit of a problem and something to account for during the build now this is one small gripe and there are only really a few small minor complaints about the case because it is fantastic for the most part it's just a shame they didn't include this in my opinion the other small complaint I have about it is going to seem really stupid but in the case you get this tiny little box with dividing trays in it and then a bunch of screws the idea here is that you'll then be able to put the screws in the relevant holes so that you can basically keep them all grouped up nicely and you know what's what and during the build process or afterwards if you want to change things you can easily access the relevant screws you have to sort them yourself which is a pain however you do have a nice accessories list in the manual where you can see everything and what it does and where it goes so this does make life a little bit easier and once you've sort it out it's not a problem as you can see it's very flexible in terms of the formats of it you can see it here with the reverse build for example the reverse build is fairly straightforward to set up as well so what you do is basically press a clip on the bottom of the case where the feet are and then just slide that bottom tray out you then have to flip the case over take another panel off the top or what is the top at the moment and slide that off again like a lot of things in this case it's held in place with a thumb screw and then there's just a button and then you're just basically putting the feet from the bottom of the case onto the top of the case and repositioning the i o because again you've seen I've taken that out there for example that hole in the middle there is where the cables run from the i o so this then slots in there and then what you're doing is you're reversing the build the idea here is that when it's in that position you can then sit here on the left hand side of your monitor on your desk so if you prefer that view and that's the style you want to go for you can do that it is a little bit fiddly to do but it has some nice style design changes to it and obviously means you can personalize it now at the rear of the case you have a number of other highlights to it that include not only a magnetic door for the SSD tray and cable hiding but also these hot swap Bays so there's two bays in there that'll take two drives each they work with both ssds and hard disk drives and it's hot swap so you just slot them in and then they'll click into place then there's the data and power connections inside that connector in there and basically what you can do is you take the side door off slip these bays out and then you can take the drives out with ease you can also install a fan on there so if you have a 15 millimeter fan so a pretty small thin fan so not your standard fan but a thinner one like this Corsair one that I happen to have then you can mount that on the cage so that means you can improve the cooling to the drives now it's supplied with extra long screws to screw into there so that means you could put a fan on each of these Drive Bays if you wanted to if you're worried about your drives overheating or if you just wanted to keep them cooler you can do this with easy access and that's pretty cool it's a nice design you can see that fan spinning up at the bottom here and so it does work you do need to account for it during the build process but if you don't want to do that you can remove the cages so both cages are easy to remove they're just screwed into the back and then the cables are held down neatly in there as well so you just need to remove those brackets this obviously frees up some space if you're not going to be using hard disk drives or ssds although there are some other SSD model points I'll get to in a second and that means that you can do something like this where I'm using the corset RM shift power supply unit and the cables face down instead of out the side and so I'm freeing up space down the bottom for this the other thing that's striking about this case is just the sheer amount of space for the cables there's a lot of space for cabling in here even if you're plugging in a lot of power supply cables and a lot of fan cables and you have a controller and other things you can see for example if I just dump all the PSU cables in here you can easily close the door that lid will just shut down over the top but there are a number of different cable Loops as well that are in here as standard and they're all removable too so it's really easy to remove them out you'll see that there are multiple different points on here for adjusting and positioning them wherever as usual needs there's an additional one included in the box and then you can also position it sideways so you can choose which way around it goes now these are really deep so it's easy to get loads of power supply K was under there it or I O cables but you'll also notice that it has a velcro loop on top so you can even put fan cables in there so cable management is a breeze in this case as well just because of the amount of space and the number of hooks now in terms of SSD mountings as well as the cages you can also just stick them on the back of this door so there's three potential points you just put in some washers and some screws that are included and then just slip them in and tuck them away there so they can be nestled in three different places in there so in theory you could put masses of storage in here because you could have three drives there and then two more in each of the caddies so it potentially loads now for this build I wanted to show you the GPU upright bracketing system that you've got this is an optional accessory so it doesn't come with the case but it is one of the many things that you can do with it so this allows you to Mount Your GPU in the upright position this attaches to the side fan tray so instead of putting fans on there you mount the bracket onto that and then obviously install your graphics card onto there now you can actually do it in the two different positions so upwards or downwards and that's how you're then positioning your cables so DisplayPort or HDMI either to the top of the case or the bottom of the case more on that in a second but this means that you can once again obviously change the design of it personalize the look and feel of it it's questionable what the cooling effect will be on this it's an aesthetic thing I haven't been able to test yet what the performance difference is between traditional mounting and this upright GPU mounting and vertical mounting in this case but it is something I'll probably get to in the future and you can see what that looks like and it is fairly straightforward but again this is an optional accessory so it is an additional purchase it doesn't come included but it is easy to adjust so as well as being able to do it all the way up you can also reposition it in multiple ways so you can move it up and down in that tray so it will obviously account for different lengths of GPU and different design as well so depending on what you're putting in then slots back into place the nice thing about this is it means that you can run your power cables for the GPU and really tuck them away you can see them hidden at the bottom there you don't have to have a pcie extender cable so you've seen that one it's a long long cable essentially this runs from the side of the graphics card as it's installed in the upright mode and then through the back of the case and plugs into the motherboard it's thin and it's really easy to manipulate and you can see from the design that you can easily fit it on on the side the benefit of this is both the power cables and this adapter cable are really neatly hidden away in this design so from the front you can barely see what's going on with it and they're just nice and tucked away much neater than most gpus so that's a bonus and then all you've got to do is find a way to run this cable through again you've got plenty of space and there is a gap underneath the tray to account for this as well so it's really easy to run that through then slide it through and went over the highlights to this case this is the sheer number of sort of rubber gaps in the case where you can put cables through so you can easily slide something like this extension lead through there and then run it to the motherboard and keep things looking neat so there's plenty of room to maneuver things around in the case and to account for cables no matter what you're doing really so it's been really easy to build now one downside is as I said you need to plug in your DisplayPort cable or your HDMI cable to your graphics card obviously and then run it either to the top or bottom depending on which way around you've done it so you can see me running the DisplayPort cable here and that then will run up to the top of the case in this instance in the reverse build so what we're doing is going to run it through here through that cable hiding area and then up and out of the top and a gap now it's well thought out in that it's pretty easy to get up there and out of a hole and to hide away so it will actually go where the standard sort of top mount for the case we'll just slip over the top of it and you can hide it down the channeling but one thing you do need to account for is the length of your display cable because how it's had to run through the case and out the top or whichever direction you tend to use you will find that that then doesn't give you much slack in order to run to your monitor so just take this into account if you are planning on doing this because you will need to buy a longer cable you can see it hanging down the back of the case here for example and you'll notice that there is not much space there so unless your monster happens to be right alongside your case and also happens to be mountable on the side it might be an issue now for Push Pull setups I also notice when I set up with the sl120 V2s on the top you'll see that the GPU is a little bit high and is sort of nestled behind the radiator and the fans doesn't look as good so that's something to think about but what I did do is I then was able to maneuver it down so as I said earlier you can adjust the position of where the bracket is in the case so you can actually move it down and make it look a little bit nicer so you can see it's sitting a little bit lower in the case now so obviously we're also now into a standard format back to having the PC in the traditional setup with it where it would be on your right hand side of your monitor and obviously the motherboard's in the right position and everything else but you can see without that stand enough on the side you've got clear access into the glass you also have a button on the case that controls the RGB lighting down the edge and that actually reflects into the glass as well so you can see a lot more so there's a lot of flexibility here loads of things that you can do with this case and it looks fantastic I've done a lot more in-depth video I'll link to the description if you want to find out more about everything you've made it right to the end of the video you brilliant Legend you if you've enjoyed it click that subscribe button give me a thumbs up and drop me a comment down below if you've got any questions if you really enjoyed it consider joining the channel and see the benefits of doing so check out these other videos you might well find them interesting or useful and most importantly have a great life

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Length: 18min 13sec (1093 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 07 2023