Completed transferring my rig into the
Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic XL ROG Full Tower.
The case is easy to build in because of the fact that once you remove all the side panels it becomes a barebone frame and even if you have thick muscled arms you don't have a problem working inside the chassis. Managing cables on the front side of the cabinet is a breeze because there are many nicely placed grommets to run cables through and because the PSU is on the back chamber, completely away from the front side it's even better. On the backside though it's a beast of a task when you have so many fans in a case and with ARGB fans the number of wires doubles up. Plus I had a fan hub and a ARGB controller pod. The fan hub in the end looked like a spider with all the dan wires plugged into it, LoL! I have removed one of the two HDD caddies at the back (which makes the backside more spacious) and the system is only now running on 2.5" SSDs. Only 1 3.5" HDD is currenly connected to the PC via a HDD Dock (USB).
Now, because the right side panel on the PC-O11 is solid metal and not made with tempered glass you can just moderately manage the cables, fix the inner cable shroud bar, slap the panel on and be done. This is actually great for someone like me who refuses to spend 5-6 hours only on cable management. I respect someone who does that
wholeheartedly but I just don't see myself doing it. I did the best I could and slapped the panel on. I was happy. Also, the AK620 is a BIG cooler but inside my
Corsair 780T full tower it was dwarfed! Inside the Lian Li PC-O11 though it's looks like a proper Iceberg! If the cooler was an inch taller (the Digital AK620 is actually more tall than the non-digital variant owing to the magnetic LCD screen sitting on top of the towers that digitally shows the temperature display) then the left tempered glass side panel would not close. Thankfully it's a whisker shy!
Now coming to the all important thermals, I haven't had the time to game on the system yet but so far with normal tasks the Ryzen 5600X sitting quietly under the heavy Deepcool AK620 Digital ranges from 37C to 40C. In my Corsair 780T before this it used to stay between 38C to 42C. No spikes so that's a good thing and idle temps are seeming to be actually better in this case! I have 10 fans in the system (excluding the AK620's push-pull fans): 6 are Intake and 4 are exhaust. The case is running on +ve pressure.
The Deepcool AK620 "Iceberg":
And here's Catwoman taking a peek out the window
More RGB = More FPS