Lian Li O11D Evo RGB vs Evo XL vs Dynamic Evo

hello this is the provoke prawn here to talk to you about the differences between the Leon Le Evo XL and the o1d Evo RGB seene here side by side with the Evo RGB on the right and the EXL on the left I'm going to do a number of comparisons here talking about the differences between these two cases as well as a summary of the differences between the RGB version and the previous Dynamic Evo at the end of the video so stick around for that as well if you're curious but since these two cases are relatively new and quite comparable I wanted to put them side by side and talk about the differences between them what my experiences was like building in them and the things that you can do with them as well as the specs and more you'll see obviously that the XL sits quite a bit taller than the Evo RGB and it does have a bit more flexibility in terms of what you can do with fan and radiator mounting for example you can put up to three 420 mil radiators in the Evo XL whereas you can only top mount 1420 in the Evo RGB the XL is perhaps a bit too big for what I've done with it in terms of just having an aiio and fan setup most people will probably opt for a liquid cooled system with a custom Loop however I am actually running this case as my main build because it's so spacious and easy to build in and configurable in different ways as you can see from a number of different shots here you can do things like reverse building so building upside down in it you can do upright GPU mounting vertical GPU mounting you can put two 120 mil fans at the rear as well or on the bottom right here but in the standard orientation you can put them in there you can side mount a 420 mil radiator or a 360 as I've done there there's lots to it the Evo RGB is also a very nice case in its own right though with a lot of flexibility too you can do push pull setups in there as I said you can put up to a 4 20 mil Radiator on top or a 360 on top or on the side and you've got plenty of space for lots of fans and all the glass obviously gives you a nice view inside you can also do that reverse build in this case so you can have it upside down and you'll notice that there's a removable pillar which I'll talk more about later on now the Evo RGB on the outside obviously has more RGB you'll notice that light strips at the top and bottom which I'll show off later on which has more B effects on it than the XL or even than the previous Dynamic Evo but it's more than just RGB it also offers a lot of flexibility in terms of the installation the setup and what you can do with it I'll leave the specs of both in the description as well as links to the other videos that I've done on these now I want to talk about motherboard placement because in the Evo XL you have three different positions that you can put it in top middle and bottom High middle and low orientations and you can mount it onto this motherboard tray which is removable now I really like this feature because it gives you the flexibility to maneuver this easily in your build but it also means that you can access the back plate and that you can move the tray up if you need to access cables you'll also notice in the various different positions that you have different flexibilities for example if you put it in the low mode you can have two 120 mil fans at the back or alternatively four 20 mil fans on the top tray so there's a lot of awesome flexibility there as well as loads of radiator mounting options you can do a pushpull 360 mil radio to set up here for example as you can see and you'll notice there's still loads of space at the top and the bottom for all your cable management it's really easy to build in and it really looks very nice in my opinion from a variety of angles and in various different build setups so you have loads of options with this case and it does give give you plenty of flexibility the Evo RGB is similar but not quite as flexible the mounting of the motherboard for example can either be done in low or high positions the difference here though is that this is more manual and Hands-On so there's only two different positions and opens up some flexibility in what you're doing with it but not as much you can't suddenly add in extra fans for example now in the standard position which is the low position you'll see here there's still plenty of room at the bottom for plugging in cables and I didn't have any problems building in it this way but you can adjust things so you'll see at the back for example there's a clip here for the io panel which you can take off flip around and maneuver to the bottom there are various different things that you can change about the case to then put it in the reverse build or alternatively you can just shift the motherboard into the other position the process for mounting it in the other position is a little bit more Hands-On though so there's no motherboard tray that's removable here instead you have to move all the standoffs manually not a major problem but it certainly doesn't make the build any easier as it was with the Evo XL you'll also notice from this shot that you can see the hard disc drive cage behind the motherboard tray so you don't have easy access to the back of the motherboard when building which is worth bearing in mind because if you want to put a back plate on for your cooler or your AO you can't easily access that which is a downside to building in the Evo RGB versus the XL where you could just take the motherboard tray out if you needed to and access the back of the motherboard a little bit more fiddly to install and only two options in terms of where you're mounting the motherboard but still plenty of space at the top and bottom for running cables easy to set up and easy to plug in all the different cables there plenty of room I didn't have any struggles with mounting the fans or the radiators in those positions now both cases have a lot of different things included loads of different screws and accessories you'll notice that the Evo RGB list includes a 420 mil bracket as standard so you actually have some extra bracketing that you can install in the case so you can put a 420 mil Radiator on the top if you want to I personally didn't do that but you do have that option and then you also have a graphics cards anti sag bracket included now this is with both the XL and the Evo RGB versions so you get a similar setup that will work with ATX and the ATX motherboards and it just has a few steps to put it together and then that mounts simply to the case the way this works is actually really easy to do and nice and easy to set up and it's a nice additional feature that speaks volumes to the sort of thought that's gone into the build of both these cases and the highlights of them because you basically just have to use a couple of standoffs through your motherboard and then screw this down and then it's an adjustable anti-ag bracket that will just hook underneath your graphics card and give it the support it needs which is fantastic in an era of really chunky and heavy graphics cards which may sound over time or damage your PCI bracket so really nice and simple straightforward setup there it works really well in the Evo XL and in the Evo RGB and it's the same logic in both as well so you can see that basically just connects up there and then press a button slide that up and then you've got the support you need and it's really subtle cuz it just sits there subtly at the rear given support where you can't really see it so there's no offensive bracketing that you have to add in a standard it doesn't interfere with the fans in any way so it gives you a lot more sort of flexibility and the aesthetic look isn't intruded in by anything else so that's really nice you'll also notice obviously we have 120 mil fans in the Evo RGB and you can put 140 mil fans in as an alternative apart from at the rear where you can only fit one 120 mil it's worth noting that both cases even the Evo XL will only take 120 mil fans in there so you're limited at the rear but the rest of the case is pretty flexible on both of them you can do an upright GPU mounting in both I definitely found it more fiddly in the Evo RGB than I did in the Evo XL though and personally I don't think I'd mount my GPU this way but you do have that flexibility to do that and that is one of the things that's nice about this you also have the option to do vertical GPU mounting which obviously have a lot more space for air flow here you can see in the Evo RGB that the bracket for that is right on top of one of the fans you could theoretically adjust this move it up a little bit and outwards perhaps but generally it's not as good I don't think however still looks very nice and the graphics card is well away from the glass with this now this is an optional purchase there are a number of different optional accessories you can get for both cases to change them so the upright GPU Mount the vertical GPU mount a mesh panel for the front instead of the glass Etc now looking at the rear of both these cases you'll see a CA mess on both of them and that's because I'm going to have to take these apart but also because I've been building them in different variations as you've seen but I only want to demonstrate that it's possible to close the door on both of those and hide the shame away nicely they're both very spacious cases they both have a very good amount of room back there with that dual chamber set up there's plenty of room for cables controllers fans and more and I say fans because we'll get to that in a second so you can see that the Evo XL if we take a look at that first has two hard disc drive cages in there each available with two different slots in them the door also has multiple mounting points for ssds on there and then you've got loads of different cabling routing options in here velcro ties and various different adjustable hooks it's really easy to set up and really convenient to build in also these are hot swap Bays that slide out as you can see so you can basically open the back of the case open up the drive cages then pull drives out and they have cables in them so you slot that in there and then you've got your SATA connections your data cables coming out of those that you just need to connect up the other thing that's interesting about this is if you have a low profile fan like this one from Corsair you can actually put that 120 mil low profile fan on the cages so you can get cooling to your driv so you can actually cool your drives with a fan on top of it and you can do that for both cages which is obviously a nice addition there gives you a nice bit of extra Cooling to your devices and then once you finished you can shut all that way you'll notice I've actually removed one of the cages as well so if you don't want to use them you can just take them out and you'll see that that's a large 1,500 W power supply unit which fits in there with plent of room still and then once again you can just shut the door and hide your shame away and no one will see it but those panels obviously going to give you good air flow the Evo RGB also has some interesting things going on at the rear though again the same sort of setup in that you've got that perforated rear panel for plenty of air flow but you'll also notice that the rear power supply unit cage and hard dis Drive cages actually jut out from the back they're also maneuverable so you can swap them around so you can reposition them which is useful when you're building it in the upside down variant or just for your personal choice if you prefer it that way around and the fact that it's recessed slightly so it sticks out out the outside of the case means you could potentially fit more of a power supply unit in there this is a th000 watt power supply unit obviously part of it is now sticking out of the back of the case which means you've got more room for the cables and the management of those inside now I will note that although there are various different hooks in here and the same way there is in the Evo XEL there's not as many so I didn't think the management of the cables is as easy to do but there is still plenty of space lots of it and it's really easy to just be messy with your cables and shut the door on it if you're not very good at the management or you don't want to be or whatever other reasons so this is a really interesting build quality here because you've got some thought process gone into that so the cages are removable but they're also adjusted in a way that they're just helping with the build as a whole so it's not offensive because obviously it's at the back of the case you're not going to see it and it's only marginal it's not a great amount of it but just gives you more room now open up that door and you'll see a number of other highlights to it obviously some of which are mounting points the interesting thing about the Evo RGB is as standard when you open up you'll discover these mounting plates on the back of the fan tray here where you'd usually Mount fans or radiator now these are easily removable and then you can mount ssds or hard dis drives to them so although this doesn't have two cages like the Evo XL what it does have is various points where you can mount ssds or hard dis drives so each of these trays will take either one hard dis Drive which screws in like this or two ssds so you could have two hard disk drives on there or four ssds total and then they could mount to the side of the case now will note obviously if you're doing this you can't put fans or Radiator on the side there so I personally wouldn't use these but if storage is the name of the game in your build then you could potentially do this and have loads of storage there and what I mean by loads is you could potentially put four ssds there and then you can also Mount some on the door here so you'll see a different way of doing it is putting these washers and screws in there and then sliding it into this bracket on the door you can put two ssds on there as well so now you've potentially got a lot more ssds and then we've also got the cages there's two cages installed as standard and that allow us for either a SSD or a hard dis Drive in each of them which means two more of each potentially depending on what you're going to do and so you can see there's already plenty of storage options and they are options CU obviously you don't have to use them all and if you don't want to use these cages you can see that you can remove them and get them out of the way so they're easy to adjust and slip out and just not use you can do the same in the Evo XL but the setup is different because you'll see they don't twist out they're also not hot swap Bays so you do actually have to plug cables into your drives and these Bays so something to think about they're not as easy to use in terms of swapping drives in and out but they are removable and adjustable and you do have some flexibility there now both cases have this removable fan tray SL radiator bracket because it does work as either or both there's a button here on the EVO RGB that allows you to remove it and then you can turn it over so you can mount it the other way up or flip it the other way round it will support your radiator in here so you can see a 360 mil radiator sits in there quite easily and you can mount that in there if you're doing this I'd recommend setting up intake fans so it pulls cold air from the rear through to the radiator as I've done with these Corsair fans on the IQ link system that will keep your radiator running nice and cool alternatively you could Mount the radiator to the top of the case but you can see you've got options there you could also potentially put fans on the rear as well and have a push pull set up or you could do something else like use these LCD fans the T LCD fans from Le and Lee we can mount those to the tray and we can mount them on the opposite side and then Mount that bracket so that the back of it faces towards the rear of the case so it's a bit neater at the front these are reverse blade fans so they're still intake fans but you've got a really nice view in there and then you can see just how much space there is at the back there still and for the cabling it's really easy now both cases are very flexible in this and the whole Evo lineup has been for a while there's so much space at the back of this jaw chamber set up and you've got loads of flexibility in terms of where you're mounting your rad and your cables and your fans and you can just set up some really delightful builds in various different ways and if you want to see more of those check out the links in the description to my other videos on these cases and previous builds I've done because they end up looking really nice the other thing you'll notice is obviously lots of space for your cabling to run through to the rear you have those rubber grommet areas then not terribly neat in the way that I've set them up perhaps you can make them a little bit neater but they do help with cable management and there are plenty of different Hooks and Loops at the rear to tidy things up there there's a lot of interesting optional accessories you can get for both these cases and you can also reposition the front panel I/O so the USBC and usba a connectors can be repositioned on both the XL and the Evo RGB so you can put on the front side and even at the rear now you can also get a optional extra purchase with an additional IO kit that includes two extra USB A's and one extra USBC connection now I will note that you do need a motherboard that will support this one that has an extra USBC connector and usba which is pretty rare but if you do happen to have one of those you can plug this in and connect it up and then have additional ports for the front of your PC or front and side so you can choose the connectivity of these now these ports are also adjustable so that you can put them on the top of the case when you're flipping it around when in the reverse mode and you can see you can choose the orientation adjust the cabling and other things and then end up with extra ports on there so there's loads of different things that you can do with these cases I will say that I do think the dust paneling on the EVO RGB isn't as good as the Excel now another thing they introduced with the Excel is this removable support bracket so this this is a bracket that you can take out once you finished your build and then you can see into the case a bit more easily so you can take that out and then put the glass back on and then you've got a nice view straight into the case which lets you show off more of the RGB lighting and see more of what's going on in the case with unobstructive view you can do the same on the EVO RGB so it's a very same design here now one thing I will note is that I have found for some reason in the reverse build on my case that there was a slight gap between the glass over the front and the side door when in the reverse build but not in the standard orientation you can see that more in the in-depth video I've done on this but there's a tiny Gap there but not when it's in the standard build format very strange but what it does do is it opens up a much nicer view into the case and it's still pretty stable I actually think with the Evo RGB it's a bit more stable than it was with the Excel variant however if youve built your case and then you just put it on your desk and leave leaving it there perfectly fine for both of them and it looks really nice in terms of the finish on it it it's got a really good design to it both these cases I want to put across they're both very good build quality cases really strong and good structure to them highly easy to build in and fantastic air flow you'll see nice large feet on the bottom which gives you good air flow from below and also you've got a lot from the rear as you've seen with the venting on both of them too now the other big difference with the Evo RGB is the RGB strips so you can see down the bottom and the top and the front you've got RGB strips running across there diffused RGB lighting it's controllable directly on the case with some buttons that you can press where you can cycle through various different lighting effects you can also adjust the brightness up and down you also have a 5vt RGB header that you can connect to your motherboard and then you can sync that RGB lighting via your motherboard software so in my instance it would be MSI Mystic light for this build so you have the options there now this is an upgrade to both the dynamic Evo and the Evo XL which basically only have one strip on them by comparison so this obviously runs around basically the front and side of the case and shows off a lot more RGB so if you're really into the RGB you're going see a lot more of it here with the Evo RGB you can see on the dynamic it only has it running down the front so this is the standard Dynamic Evo so I want to talk a minute about that now obviously a lot of upgrades versus the original Dynamic Evo but that was still a great case you'll see a lot of videos on my Channel about it this was the build that I had set up there with some flexibility in what you could do it was less roomy it did feel smaller and perhaps not as flexible but you could do things like have a front mesh panel on there so you could upgrade it in various ways vertical GPU mounting obviously still a really nice looking case but the Evo RGB is a Nifty upgrade to this case and that was one of my favorites for a long time and now the Evo XL is my favorite but the Evo RGB is well worth checking out I hope you found this video useful if you did subscribe and drop me a comment down below cuz that will really help my channel thanks very much for watching don't forget to check out the links in the description to find out more you've made it right to the end of the video you 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Published: Fri Dec 22 2023