Lian Li O11 Dynamic EVO - Step by Step PC Build Guide

hello today i'm going to be showing you how to build a pc in lian lee's brand new 011 dynamic evo and on first looks you might be thinking this case looks very similar to the original 011 dynamic but it is a completely redesigned case with a whole host of new features and i'm going to be covering all those new features in detail in this video but to give you a little bit of an idea i'm going to list for them now so firstly the case is bigger so you're going to be able to fit more in it you're going to be able to change out the front glass panel for a mesh panel you can mount your gpu at an upright position and you can actually invert the whole case so four very exciting features but there is a whole lot more and i'll be covering them all in real detail in this video so let's start off by taking a look at the other parts i've chosen for today's build for the motherboard i'm going to be using the rog maximus z690 hero and i've already done an overview of this motherboard and if you want to find out more about it you'll find a link to that video in the description for the cpu i'm going to be using one of intel's 12th gen aldernick cpus as the 12700k keeping our cpu cool i've got a 360 millimeter i o from a zeus it's the rog rayogan 2. for ram i'm going to be using one of kingston's brand new ddr5 kits and i've got 32 gigabytes of fury beast at 5200 megahertz for storage engine with a single gen 4 m.2 ssd for this build it's from sebring as their blistering fast rocket four plus drive in two terabyte capacity the graphics card i'm using today is also from azus it's the rog strix rtx 38a powering the whole build i'm going to be using the montag century 850 watt fully modular power supply for case fans i'm going to be using all liam the unifans and the model i'm using is the sl120s in white as well today i've got two of the five optional accessories for the o11 dynamic evo the first is the mesh front panel kit and the second is the upright gpu bracket the three optional sensors that i won't be showing you today are the vertical gpu bracket because i think you'll agree with me mounting our graphics card upright sounds far more exciting you can also replace part of the top panel which has i o in it so that's going to allow you to move your i o to the top and there's also an additional i o module so you can actually double the external i o in the case should you wish to do so the final part for today's build is some white cable extensions from cable mods so that's all the parts let's get on with the build the first thing i want to do is to prepare our case and as we go we'll point out the main case features so the first thing that's new with the o11 dynamic evo is we can actually remove the side and front panels without removing the top panel so we need to do is simply pull the panel forward at the top and then we can just lift it away same thing with our front panel pull it forward and lift away taking a look at our top panel you'll now see it's got an integrated mesh layer to remove it we just need to loosen the thumb screws out the back slide it backwards and lift away again our other side panel features two integrated mesh layers to remove it again we just need to pull it out from the top and lift away taking a closer look at the case you'll see leon lee have stuck with the same dual chamber design and we'll take a closer look at the front chamber first of all so in terms of motherboard support we can fit up to eitx and motherboards you'll see we've got eight horizontal pci expansion slots and we're going to have no trouble fitting a larger graphics card with cards up to 422 millimeters in length being supported if you want to mount your graphics card vertically in the case leon lee's vertical graphics card kit can be mounted in two different positions allowing extra height below the graphics card for thicker fans and a radiator as well you'll be pleased to know it's a gen 4 cable that it comes with in terms of fan support at the bottom the top and the side we can fit either three 120 or two 140 millimeter fans and if you go with the optional front mesh kit we can fit another two 140 or three 120 millimeter fans at the front as well it's also good to see that we now have a rear fan mounting location and we can fit a 120 millimeter fan at the rear in terms of radiator support both at the top and at the side we can fit either a 360 or a 280 millimeter radiator while at the bottom we can fit a 360 millimeter radiator something else new is that we've got removable fan stroke radiator brackets at the bottom the side and the top so we'll go ahead and get these removed to remove the bottom radiator bracket we just simply need to remove the thumb screw then we can slide the bracket and lift it away so if we take a closer look at the bracket we've just removed you'll see we do have some mounting locations for drives so we can fit either two three and a half inch drives or four two and a half inch drives into this bracket the only thing to be aware of is you're going to fit drives to this bracket you're not going to be able to find fans at the bottom and for my previous tests and i have found the fans at the bottom significantly improve our gpu temperatures to remove the top fan bracket we first need to remove these two screws with the screws removed we can simply slide the black hood backwards and lift it away at the top of the case we've got some screw holes which is going to give you the option of securing both the tempered glass panels in place preventing them from being removed our side fan bracket is removed by simply lifting this quick release clip and sliding it out now one of the nice things is this bracket is reversible so we can insert it the other way around and then it's just a matter of pushing it in and the quick release clip will secure it so the advantage of this is the mounting points are then further towards the back of the case which is useful if you want to use a particularly thick radiator and fans on the front to remove the cable management bracket we just need to loosen the thumb screws at the top and the bottom and on this bracket you are able to mount two two and a half inch drives with the cable management brackets removed you can see the improvements leon lee have made into the cable management in this case so we've got these additional clips which are going to help organize the cables we've got some velcro cable straps and we've got this additional bracket here the idea of it is the cables go into your drives you wrap around the bracket so then when you're doing your cable management you're not going to pull them out off the drives our power supply is going to go down the bottom here and we've got a support bracket here for it to access the hard drive cage we need to simply remove the cover by lifting the thumb screw and lifting away then we can go ahead and remove the drive trace the hard drive cage is removable we've got four screws holding it in place so taking a closer look at the hard drive cage in each of our drive trays we can mount either a two and a half inch or three and a half inch drive there is also the option to mount a two and a half inch drive to the outside of the hard drive cage as well the other thing you'll notice if you look at the hard drive cage is we do have some fan mounted locations for a 60 millimeter fan so there's two on each side of the drive cage and leon lee include four long screws to mount the fans to the drive cage with the hard drive cage removed one of the options we have is to go with dual power supplies so we go ahead and slide our first power supply into place then they only include this little rubber block which you would stick to your first power supply and then you can go ahead and put a second power supply into place and you're going to be able to screw both into the back the other option that we have is to put our hard drive cage at the bottom and power supply at the top so i'll show you how to do that the first thing we need to do is remove this power supply support bracket to remove this bracket we're going to have to take the bottom of the case off but before we can do that we're going to have to free up all these i o cables and bring them out the bottom we can now go ahead and loosen the thumb screws at the back of the case and then simply pull this backwards and the bottom of the case will come off we can now see the two screws we're looking to remove and with the screws removed the power supply support bracket simply lifts away the first thing to do is secure the power supply support bracket to the hard drive cage and the four screws come in the accessory box then we can go ahead and secure the hard drive cage to the case using the four original screws then we're going to need to relocate this bracket to the bottom it's held on with three screws okay so now we're able to slide our power supply in at the top and we've got the bracket here to help organize the cables coming out of the hard drive cage next thing i want to do is take a look at the buttons on the case we've got a power button which can be pressed both from the front and from the side which are really nice touch we've got a reset button here and then we've got two lighting buttons one is for mode and one is for color and we take it at the front of the case where the glass is removed we've got an led lighting strip all the way down the front take a look at our cases front i o we've got a combined headphone and microphone jack we've got two usb type a ports and a type c port now one of the nice things about this module is you can actually move it by default it's installed at the front but we do have the options to install it on either side and i'll show you how to do that now so this is our i o module installed at the bottom of the case so to free it up we just need to pull this lever up and then we can push down to free the module i'm just going to bring a little bit more cable through to the bottom and then all we need to do is slide the module down to the bottom of the case there's little notches in it and push it into place and that's what that looks like now with the i o on the side of the case there is also the option to install the i o module on the other side do that i'm going to have to loosen this little clip and then going to free up the module so we pull this clip back and push over we can then go ahead and relocate it over here push into place and then there's a little hole here to relocate the clip so that's what it looks like installed on the other side and if you can't make your mind up you can go with more than one location because lee and lee do sell additional i o modules so you can improve the front i o on your case pad and two of these the other option that lee only offer is a replacement panel for the top of the case with a cutout for the i o so you would simply remove this panel by releasing the thumbscrew at the back and sliding it away you would slide your new panel in unfortunately i don't have one of these it would then have the cutout and you'd be able to bring your i o cables up here and install them at the color so you'd have your i o on the top of the case then just before we leave the bottom of the case this is where you'll find the cases at one and only dust filter and it is magnetic the next thing i want to do is show you how to invert the case so we've already removed all the panels the radiator brackets at the top the bottom and the side and also the cable cover so we've also removed this bracket at the top we just loosen the thumb screw and pull it backwards and away we can go ahead and remove the hard drive cage just exactly how we've done it before bring all our i o cables through to the bottom of the case go ahead and loosen up the thumb screws and then remove the feet at the bottom we can remove the screws securing the power supply support bracket then we can go ahead and put the case back onto the feet upside down and then tighten up the thumb screws out the back we can go ahead and loosen the clip securing the i o cables pass our cables up and through to the back we can go ahead and secure the power supply support bracket to the hard drive cage so i've gone ahead and removed the tempered glass panel to give you an idea what this looks like so your motherboard is going to be installed upside down your graphics card is going to be at the top of the case upside down as well but the big difference is the front and back have been reversed so this is going to be perfect if you want to set this on the left hand side of your desk because you're not going to be able to see the front of the case and the size so i'm not going to use this layout today i think i'm almost certainly going to do an inverted build in the future so i'm going to go ahead and put things back the way it came so just in case you want to install your graphics card horizontally i'm going to show you how the support bracket works so you would go ahead and install your motherboard obviously i haven't done it um but you wouldn't install the screw here and here instead what you're going to do is use this long standoff that comes with a support kit to secure your motherboard in place and again the tool for securing the standoff in place it comes in the accessory kit pretend our motherboard's in here it's been secured with these longer standoffs and then we want to put this little bracket into place and secure it with the same screws we've used to secure the motherboard in all these other locations then we've got one of these little brackets this is going to hold our graphics card up we're going to line it up to where we think it goes and then secure it with a screw i'm just going to leave that secured lightly for now we've got these little sticky rubber pads there's double-sided adhesive on it so go ahead and stick it into place and it's just going to make sure you don't damage your graphics card then once you've installed your graphics card into place you're going to push this up into the right position and go ahead and tighten it into place and you can see that's going to provide quite a bit of support for the graphics card and we get two of these clips should you wish to go for a dual graphics card system the next thing for us to do is to go ahead and mount this bracket to the side of the case there's two reasons you're going to need to use this bracket the first is if you need additional ssd or hard drive mounting locations and you can mount two three and a half inch drives are four two and a half inch drives to the back of this bracket the other reason you may want to use it if you're wanting to mount your graphics card in the upright position like we are so importantly if you want to install drives go ahead and install them on the back before installing this into the case so we'll go ahead and slide it into place and then push in at the back next we go ahead and let the bracket that comes with the upright gpu kept up with the holes in the top of the case and screw it into place with four screws next we need to assemble this little bracket together so we're going to line this up and put a screw in at the back then we've got a little sticky pad we can go ahead and put on the front we can then go ahead and line the bracket up with the back of the case now i have really sized it up and then we'll screw it into place next we'll go ahead and loosen the two screws at the top of the bracket and then we should be able just to slide this out we can then go ahead and insert the graphics card into the bracket and then secure it into place with the screws from the accessory box just before we install our graphics card we need to plug in either the display port or hdmi cable whatever we're going to use and pass the cable through to the back then we can go ahead and insert the graphics card into the bracket and we're going to secure the bracket into place at the back with the two screws we removed at the back of the case we can go ahead and bring our hdmi cable out this rubber grommet at the back then we can go ahead and slide the other bracket i've already put the little rubber protector on slide it down past the graphics card and then we'll secure it into place with a screw now just take a look at where that's coming out that is actually slightly blocking our pcie cables so i'm just going to need to move it down a little bit so i'm going to loosen this clip first of all loosen the screws at the back then we'll slide the bracket down to where it's free of our pci eclipse yep all the way down there should be fine tighten it up again so that's our graphics card nice and secure what i'm going to do now is go ahead and remove the graphics card but keep all the other brackets in place next because i'm using the optional front mesh panel we're going to need to put the brackets on for our fans so go ahead and line the brackets up with the holes on the case and secure them into place the second bracket can go in two different locations if we're going to install 120 millimeter fans we need to line it up with this hole if we want to go with 140 millimeter fans it's this whole we're going to go with 120 so i'm going to bring it back to here then it's just a simple matter of pushing our front mesh panel into place we're now ready to start working the motherboard and we're going to install our cpu the bracket for our cpu cutter our m.2 ssd and our ram all before we put the motherboard into the case okay so she open our socket we just need to push this little clip backwards and outwards lift it up and then we can lift this up to expose our socket next we can go ahead and drop our cpu into the socket making sure the text is the right way up then we can go ahead and close the cover over if we apply a little bit of pressure over to the left hand side the black plate the plastic will pop off and then we can go ahead and close the lever securing our cpu next we're ready to install our m.2 ssd and i'm going to go ahead and install this top socket just before we go ahead and put our drive into the socket we can remove the plastic protection then we go ahead and insert our drive into the socket at a slight angle once we're happy it's in place we can flatten it down and use this catch to hold it in place again before returning the heatsink it's important we remove the plastic protection we're now ready to install our ram because we've only got two sticks we're going to need this installed in the second and fourth one along from the cpu so i'll go ahead and open those clips then we go ahead and line our ram up with the slot once we're happy everything is lined up and in place this is some firm pressure to the top and the ram is going to clip into place same thing with our second stick line it up again once we're happy everything's in place some firm pressure to the top and the ram is going to clip into place we're now ready to install the bracket for our cpu color but if you look closely at the mounting holes you'll notice that actually two mounting holes at each corner joined together one of them is for lj 1700 but one of the cool things is this they're doing with their motherboards is they're making them backward compatibility by also including holes for lga 1200 and this is really useful for us because the curve we're going to use it doesn't come with an lga 1700 migraine bracket so we're going to be able to use the lga 1200 holes to mount our killer okay so we'll go ahead and put our cutters back plate through the holes at the back and then we need to screw one of these brackets into each corner okay so we're now ready to go ahead and insert our motherboard into the case so we'll go ahead and get it lined up with a cutout at the back you'll notice i've removed the m.2 ssd cover and that's because we need to access the metal screw in the motherboard we'll go ahead and get the motherboard secured to the case using the screws from the accessory bag next thing to do is to get all our case cables plugged in so we'll go ahead and plug these in one at a time okay first cable to plug in is our hd audio cable that's going to go in this header down the far left hand side of the motherboard we're going to use all the pins over to the left hand side and not the two pins to the right hand side of the socket importantly there is a pin missing and there's a hole missing on our header so it's important we line it up the right way okay so we'll go ahead and plug it in with the hd audio text facing up the way and then pull the excess cable through to the back our case is some led lighting on the front and we've got a standard three pin five volt rgb connector to plug into our motherboard so two headers along we've got one of those gonna line it up make sure it goes the right way and push into place and then again pull the access cable through to the back our front panel header is this one over the far right hand side of the motherboard leon lee has done a great job of combining all the headers into a single plug some other cases these all come as separate headers you need to plug into the individual pins so we're just going to go ahead and line it up with a header with the front panel text facing up the way and push into place and then pull the excess cable through to the back next we've got our usb 3.2 header we've got one here and one here so we'll go ahead and bring the cable through the cutout line it up with a header and push into place and then bring the excess cable through to the back next we've got our front panel type c connector so we'll go ahead and bring the header through the cutout line it up with a header push into place and then pull the excess cable through to the back we're now ready to go ahead and get our power supply installed and i've gone ahead and plugged all the cables into your power supply already so i've got a 24 pin cable for our motherboard two eight pin eps cables to provide additional power to our cpu i plugged in three pcie cables and i've plugged in a sata cable although we're not installing any sata drives we are going to need sata power for the hubs that we're going to use in this build as well i plug the white cable extensions into the end of the cables so just before we insert the power supply i'm going to apply a little rubber pad to our power supply support bracket then we go ahead and lift the power supply into the case and then we'll get it secured into place at the back with screws from the accessory bag we're now ready to get our power supply cables in so our two 8 pin eps cables are going to go into this header here in the top left of the motherboard so we'll go ahead and bring them through the cutout at the top line them up with a header push into place same thing with our other cable and then we have got some cable combs in these cables to help tidy up the cables next we go ahead and bring our 24-pin cable through the car we'll go ahead and line it up with a header push into place so i've gone ahead and slid the graphics card into the top here and i actually think this is what i'm going to install next if we were to put our io at the top it might be more difficult to install our graphics card and i think actually installing this pcie riser cable is going to be a little bit tricky so i'd rather have it done before i put anything else into the build the other thing i'm looking at is our pcie power cables are going to go in here and we're not actually going to see them they're going to be rooted from here along behind the back of the graphics card and into here so what i'm actually thinking i'm going to do this cable is going to be really thick and difficult to root so i'm actually not going to use the white cable extensions for the graphics card okay so i'm going to bring the graphics card out again okay first thing to do is get our riser cable plugged into the graphics card so we'll go ahead and line it up and then apply a little bit of pressure and that's it clipped into place and our clip has closed next we can go ahead and slide our graphics card into the bracket that's it all the way to the back and then we'll get the graphics card secured into place at the top i'm going to go ahead and bring my hdmi cable through and plug it into the graphics card next i'm going to bring our pcie power cables through the cutout at the bottom and then we'll go ahead and get them plugged into the graphics card and that's the third one plugged in so we can go ahead and tuck these cables down to the side and then we can pull all the excess cable through to the back at this stage then we're going to be able to re-secure the clip supporting the graphics card at the front we're now ready to go ahead and install our riser cable into the motherboard and this gives me a really good opportunity to point out a really cool feature of this motherboard normally to open the clip you just press here to open it but for example if you had a big graphics card installed here in our killer you might not be able to reach this clip so this is why i just have added this little button if i go and press it and watch the clip you'll notice it opens the clip so really really clever so we'll go ahead and get our riser cable plugged in line it up with a slot once we're happy it's lined up we'll apply a little bit of pressure it's going to push into place and the clip is going to close then we need to organize the cable with some included cable ties we're now ready to start working the i o so the first thing is to set our fans onto the radiator making sure all the cables are coming out at the back then we go ahead and get the fan secured into place using the long radiator screws then we can go ahead and set our top irradiator bracket onto the radiator and then we've got some shorter radiator screws and washers to secure it into place then we go ahead and insert our o on a spracket into the case and then we'll slide it all the way to the front and secure things into place with the two screws at the top i'm just going to go ahead and pass the cables coming from the fans through to the back okay just before we install our killer we need to go ahead and remove this cover it's magnetically attached the other important thing to mention if you're using this cutter for the first time you'll find some thermal paste pre-applied to the back this killer has been used before so i'm going to have to apply my own so we'll go ahead and add a pea-sized amount of thermal paste to the center of the cpu and then we can go ahead and line our water block up with the bracket there we go and then we've got some thumb screws to go on each corner and then we'll go ahead and clip our cover back on again and we'll route these cables coming from the cover through to the back of the case i've also just gone ahead and run our tube through the 24 pin cable as well keeping them nice and tidy so coming from our cover for our i o we've got a usb cable so we'll bring it through the bottom we've got two usb 2.0 headers down at the bottom here so i'm just going to plug into one of them the other cable coming from our pump is this other usb connector so we're going to plug it into the hub that comes with our iio on the other side of the hub we've got three fan connectors so i'm going to go ahead and plug the three fans on our radiator into here the other cable coming from our hub is a three pin five volt rgb connector so i'm going to go ahead and route that down to the bottom of the case then right beside the other argb header we plugged in earlier on i'm going to go ahead and plug this one in the last thing to plug into our hub is we're going to need to power it so we've got a sata cable coming from our power supply and we'll go ahead and get it plugged in so that's our i o all connected up it's important to remember that our case also has a sata cable which needs power so i'm going to plug one of the other sata connectors from the same power cable into it we're now ready to go ahead and connect early and the unifans up together so these just connect together pushing them in at the side like that so that's all three of them connected then into each group of fans we need to put a little connector on coming from each of these we've got two connectors which are going to plug into our hub but once we've got the fans installed in the case okay we'll go ahead and set our fans onto the bracket turn our bracket over then we can go ahead and slide our bottom fan bracket into place and then we'll secure it into place with a thumb screw and then we'll pass the cables coming from our fans through to the back we can go ahead and pass the cables from our rear fan through to the back of the case and then go ahead and get it secured into place then we can go ahead and slide our front fans into place bring the cables through first of all slide the fans in and then we'll pass the cables through to the back and then we'll go ahead and get our fan secured into place okay we now need to get our fans plugged into our lian lee unifan controller so we've got two cables coming from each fan one is a four pin pwm connector so we're going to plug this one into channel one and the other is an argb connector again also into channel one we've got the two cables coming from our rear fan we'll go ahead and plug these into channel number two and then just before i plug our third set of fans in it is quite tight i'm not going to be able to show you the other connectors coming from the end of our hub we've got a sata cable we're going to need to plug in this at a power cable we've got a usb 2.0 header we're going to bring that through to the front of the case and plug it into your motherboard's other usb 2.0 header and then we've got this splitter cable and one end of it is for pwm so it's going to plug into one of the fan headers in our motherboard and the other is for argb and that's if you want to sync this directly using your motherboard leonle's lconnect software is much better so i'm not going to worry about plugging this one in i'm just going to plug in the pwm fan connector but before i do that we'll go ahead and get the third set of fans plugged in we'll go ahead and plug the sata cable into a sata cable coming from our power supply and then we'll rip the other two cables through to the front okay down the bottom of the case we've got another usb 2.0 header so we'll go ahead and plug the cable in and then pull the excess cable through to the back and then we'll go ahead and plug into the pwm fan connector down at the bottom okay that's everything connected up last thing to do is some cable management importantly we have some velcro straps here and a cable management channel down the middle which should hopefully make this a little bit easier [Music] [Music] [Music] okay that's the build complete we've now reached the moment of truth we're ready to flip the power switch and see what happens importantly i have loaded a windows 11 bootable usb drive into the back of the pc if you don't know how to make one of those i've done a video on it and you'll find a link to that in the description okay here it goes okay so that's good we can hear the liquid moving in the io and we've got our fan spinning so we just need to keep an eye on the screen and see what happens so that's a good sign we've got the rog logo appearing and what we're looking for next is the windows installation screen to appear if it's find the bootable usb drive that we plugged into the back of the computer so there we go we're through to the windows installation screen i'm not going to show you how to install windows 11 but to make things a little bit easier i'm going to flip over to the screen mode okay over the next lot of screens i'm gonna pick the options that are relevant to me you should pick obviously the ones that are relevant to you so i'm just gonna go ahead and click next and then i'm gonna click on install now if you've got a windows product key go ahead and enter it in the box if you don't click i don't have a product key select the version of windows you're going to get a product key for i'll select windows 11 pro click next we're going to accept the license terms next we're going to go for a custom install we've only got one drive installed so we're going to select it and click on next and again this next step will take a little bit of time so i'll go ahead and skip through it okay i'm from united kingdom i'm going to go ahead and click on yes and yes again i'm going to skip a secondary keyboard it's asking us to name our device and click on next i'm going to set the pc up for personal use click next so it's asking me to sign in with my microsoft id this isn't going to be a pc that i'm going to be keeping so i'm going to go for sign in options and go for an offline account and then i'm going to go skip for now and it's going to ask me to enter my name click next and then i'm going to have to make a password i'm going to have to set up three security questions so i'm going to go ahead and let apps use my location click accept yes to find my device just the required data except no no no okay so that's windows 11 installed we're getting a pop-up about downloading the armory creates a lan driver so we should go ahead and do this we'll click on yes okay we're going to have to accept the terms by clicking i agree and accept i'm just going to cancel this okay so this is in the dashboard the first thing i want to do is go ahead and get our drivers so we go over to the tools and we're on the drivers tab so it will find some drivers for us so i'm going to go ahead and click on download and install click yes private networks and we're going to click allow access and this is one of the nice things about the zeus motherboard you just need to come here and it will download and install the drivers for you rather than having to go to the websites and find the individual drivers so it really simplifies the installation process okay we're going to go ahead and restart our computer so we'll do that now there's one more driver for us to get so we're going to head over to nvidia's website i've already pre-filled in all the options and i'm going to click on search i'm going to click on download and download a game i'm going to click on open file click yes okay so i'm just going to go ahead and install the driver click agree and continue and we'll go for an express installation click next okay that's the graphics card drivers installed we can click on close next thing i want to do is get windows fully up to date i would normally start with this but the armory create popped up so i decided to go ahead with drivers first of all so we go ahead and click on windows update so what windows has done is find a whole load of updates so we're going to go ahead and click on download now so what's going to happen it's going to install them we may well need to restart our computer a number of times but we're going to keep coming back here and checking for more updates and it's only once there's no more updates available then we're going to proceed okay so whenever i click on check for updates there's no further updates available so we can go ahead and close this down the next thing i want to do is head over to our motherboards page and we're down on the bias tab so the latest version of the bias is from the third of the 12th 2021 so i'm going to go ahead and download this then if we go to our downloads folder and we're going to extract the file and this is actually our bias file so i'm going to copy it and i've plugged an external usb drive into the computer we'll go ahead and click on it and then paste the file here okay next thing we want to do is head over to the bias so we click on the windows icon click on the par and click on restart what we're going to do we're going to restart our computer whenever the screen goes blank we're going to start pressing the delete key and that will take us into the bios so i'm going to start pressing the delete key now okay that's us into the bias and what i can see is the version that we have from the 22nd of october there's actually a later version on the usb drive so we're going to go ahead and update it in general i wouldn't recommend updating your bios unless you're having problems with your computer or you need the new features and the new version offers so to go ahead and update it we'll click on tool click on the flash 3 utility we need to find our bias file it's on our usb drive and there's the file here so i'm going to go ahead and click on it and we don't have bitlocker enabled so i'm going to go ahead and click yes and we want to read the file yes and yes so what's really important is that we don't lose power in our pc during the pass update because that happens there's a risk of our motherboard being bricked okay that's the bias update i'm going to go ahead and click on okay okay so we can now you can see our bias has been updated to the latest version okay so if we go ahead and click on the easy mode and we can see we've got our two sticks of ram which are currently running at 4800 megahertz i'm going to go ahead and enable the xmp profile and that gets us up to 5200 megahertz the next thing i want to do is enable the resizable bar by clicking on and then the final thing i want to do is take a look at our fans so we at the moment have plugged our leon lee fans into chassis fan header number four it's not actually detecting a fan speed from them and i have found this is a bit of an issue previously with some of the leon lee uni fans when you plug them directly into the controller and we'll click on cue fan control click on chassis fan header number four and at the moment it's set to auto detect and it's running in the standard fan profile so i'm going to go ahead and exit from here i'm going to save the changes we've made and exit and click ok ok that's us back into windows the first thing i want to do is check the settings we have enabled have been turned on so we right click on the windows icon click on task manager we're going to click on more details performance and memory we can see our ram is currently running at 5200 megahertz and we go down to the bottom and click on the nvidia settings click agree and continue and then we're going to click on system information and we can see resizable bar has been enabled the next thing i want to do is go ahead and download leon lee's lconnect software so we head over to their page and click on download lconnect we can go ahead and click on open file and then we've got the choice of installing lconnect one or two i'm going to go for two click extract all extract and then we'll click on the setup file we're going to need to click on more info and run it anyway and click yes english next next install and we'll click on finish run l connect to okay so we've got leon lee sl fans installed so we'll click on the sl fans so what we can do is we can select the first group of fans we can go ahead and pick whatever effect we want i don't want to change them to a static white so i'm going to click static white and click on ok we're going to select all four fans in the group and what i'm going to do is select the white from over here and paint all four white and then i just want to apply this to all groups of fans so i'm going to go ahead and click on apply to all and what you'll notice now that all the fans in our case have changed to white at the moment our fans are set to pwm mode if we want to change the speed we can go into here and change it as well i'm just going to leave it on pwm mode at the moment so i'm going to go ahead and close out of here the next thing i want to do is head over to the armory crit and we're going to go ahead up to the devices and click on our color so you probably already noticed from the amount of background noise that the fans in our pc are running incredibly light i've checked which fans it is and it's the fans on the aio rather than any of our case fans so looking through the software here there is no good reason why if any of the fan curves were behaving as they're showing here that the fans would be running so loud how i actually fixed the problem was the micro usb cable going into the fan hub i unplugged it and then plugged it back in again and everything seemed to work as it should and in a minute you'll notice the noise disappears so at the moment we have a fan that you've seen whenever i took the cover off the i o and we can see the fan curve that it's running on so it's quite a noisy fan so it's better not to have it coming on until the cpu is heating up quite hot and then it ramps up quite quickly so that looks fine to me the pump is running off this curve here just the default curve again i'm not going to go ahead and adjust that for now and our aio controller which is the fans on our radiator are running off this fan curve it's just the default fan curve so i'm going to leave them as they are for now and then do some thermal testing and make some adjustments later on if needed the next thing i want to do is head over and take a look at our display so at the moment on the screen you can see the animation if i want to change that i can i can go ahead and click on this one click apply and then when you look at the screen you'll notice it has changed you can change it to this one give you a look at that click apply and we've also got options up here where we can change what goes on we can have the hardware monitor so if we want we can have a single temperature so at the moment we can put the cpu temperature up on the screen click apply and you'll see it now shows the cpu temperature there's the option to have multiple information so we can go for quad info it'll put a whole variety of stuff up here and click apply okay the other thing we can do is upload a custom image so i'm going to click on the image i'm going to click on upload file and i have saved a picture um of my logo in the picture so we'll click on open we just need to resize it so we'll just maximize the site and then click on save and then we'll click on apply and then we've now got my logo in the center of the screen the next thing i want to do is change some of the lighting so we click on the aura sync so at the moment everything is syncing so i'm going to click on the aura effects so i've gone ahead and taken the front mesh panel off to give you a look at our graphics card and also got a blue lighting strip along the front of the case so everything's currently set to rainbow and obviously the blue lighting is coming from the case sliding at the moment so if i want to get a static color i'm going to click on static and then going to select white by typing in 255 in each of these boxes and then clicking ok and what we can now see is the lighting on the graphics card has turned to white and if i go back into the case the lighting on the motherboards io shield has also turned it to white so i'm just going to need to press mode on the case to get the lighting to change and there we go we've got it set to sync with motherboard i'm just going to try and change the lighting again to see if that will change so if i go to the color and pick red so you can see now the lighting on the front of the case is changing with our motherboard so that's how it works you keep pressing the mode button and it cycles through the different effects and it's the eighth press that gets you to sync with whatever the motherboard is currently set to so i'm going to go ahead and turn that back to white so that's the build fully set up i think it looks absolutely stunning and it's running great um i really enjoyed building in this case in particular it was doing something completely different with the upright gpu and it was really nice adding the front mesh panel onto this case as well there's a whole variety of different configurations that you can do in this case what i'm planning to do now is i'm going to do a full case review but i'm also going to do the best cooling configuration for this case so i'm going to be testing a whole variety of different fan configurations different io placement and i'm even going to put an error color into the case as well so if you're thinking of building in this case it'll give you an idea of how you want to build on it because you might not want to follow this guide exactly you might want to do it with some modifications so as well as getting all the noise and temperature results you're also going to get a look at all the different builds that i put together so it's going to give you an idea of what looks great as well and once i've made those videos you'll find a link to them in the description so hopefully you found this video useful if you have please give it a thumbs up and if you're not currently subscribed to 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Channel: Christopher Flannigan

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Length: 46min 46sec (2806 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 17 2021