[Review] Lian LI PC-QO8B

Tecnho

It's very cool. Congratulations on the review.
How is it in terms of cable management? Is the front fan LED? Does it have a switch like the CM 690 to turn them off? Because at least for me, it's annoying to be watching a movie in the dark, and having little lights distracting me.

Why don't you like the optical drive assembly?

It's a pleasure to be able to fit a whole GTX570 in that little one ;D

Best regards

Cable management is first to have a modular power supply XD, second to put the satas and front behind the recorder, and the power ones of the power supply between the power supply and hdd and turning a little it looks good even if it seems tight between micro and power supply there is a wide aisle.

The recorder assembly is more of a hassle, you have to disassemble the whole tray and the platen is not complicated as it's just removing 6 screws but it takes a while and sometimes you need a second hand to put it right and make the platen click properly, but nothing the first time I think it can be reassembled in 10min it's done.

Bm4n

@Franziskaner:

well I don't know what to tell you …. the AMD STOCK heatsinks always have the sticker "out" they blow air ¿right? but that INTEL heatsink gives the impression that it's mounted the wrong way,so it blows air out.
it's also true that intel heatsinks are not my thing and it's very likely that I'm wrong but.... if that's the case the mounting wouldn't be entirely correct ¿right? the one from the power supply would blow out (and it will be 120/140) and the one from the micro would blow in and it will be 40/80? so "opposing forces" ¿right?
:wall:

Well the sticker is not a normal one, look at the blades and you'll notice which direction they rotate. Having a fan in front will influence the airflow but it doesn't stop the fan from doing its job.

Franziskaner

@Bm4n:

Well the sticker is not a normal one, look at the blades and you realize which way they rotate. The fact that there is a fan in front will influence the airflow but it doesn't stop the fan from doing its job.

let's see: if we take a normal, ordinary fan, I see that, with the motor "behind", the blades rotate to the "left" and with the motor in front they rotate to the right (and blow air out) in the first case they blow air in.
in the case of that fan for it to blow air in it would have to rotate to the right and it has the motor "in front" therefore it is supposed to have the rotation system "inverted" in relation to normal fans, right?
regards
P.D so that's what has led me to confusion.

krampak

let's see: if we take a normal, ordinary fan, we see that, with the motor "behind", the blades rotate to the "left" and with the motor in front, they rotate to the right (and blow air out). In the first case, they suck in air.
in the case of that fan, for it to suck in air, it would have to rotate to the right and it has the motor "in front", so it is assumed that it has the rotation system "inverted" in relation to normal fans, right?

You are right, it is usual for the air to come out of the side where the motor is seen (which usually has that sticker), but if you look at the blades, they are placed to blow towards the heatsink, it wouldn't make sense for it to blow outwards if they are placed that way.

XRAYBoY

I'm glad to see that the brand has modified the cases to mount the HDDs and riddled them with holes.
I had to remove mine. With the HDDs mounted, it completely blocked the external airflow... it made no sense, neither for cooling the drives, nor for ventilating the case. ¬¬

amd125

Good review and beautiful box. I hope to be able to build something similar someday ¬¬

Franziskaner

@krampak:

You're right, it's usual for the air to come out of the side where the motor is seen (which usually has that sticker), but if you look at the blades they are placed to blow towards the heatsink, it wouldn't make sense for it to blow out if they are placed that way.

yeah, you're right, but... what's the first thing you see? the motor sticker;D that's why my hasty conclusion
and I'll leave the topic as I'm starting to sound tedious and I'm cluttering up Tecnho's thread;D

Yorus

What annoys me is the position of the socket on ITX socket 1155 motherboards, so close to the PCIe that it's difficult to put a cooler on the micro that isn't the stock one in case you put a graphics card.

By the way, good case and excellent review

Tecnho

Thanks Yorus, I'll let you know when I try it out if I get any cooler if it's not suitable for the second PC that's coming, I'm between shuriken and this one

Noctua.at - sound-optimised premium components "Designed in Austria"!

anyway as I say it doesn't go above 39º, but if I put a cooler well one always wants to tinker with it and do some oc XD, I ran a superpi and it gave me about 29s looking at the lists to be cheap it's faster than the high-end AMDs in our lists.

Nemo