Corsair Obsidian Series 1000D vs Lian Li O11 Dynamic Evo

I installed an ATX motherboard just to give you a reference point at how big that interior is. We have so much space above and in front of the motherb...

With the O11D EVO, Lian Li hopes to simplify the PC building experience while offering a wide array of configurations that displays and cools the PC i...

Although I can't be certain, it was in the box and Styrofoam was around it when it came, so it leads me to believe that it happened during production, rather than shipping.

I am looking at it long-term, since Gamers Nexus had their front panel glue weaken over time, and I'm hoping that was a fluke.

This board is an absolute beast. It's completely feature packed, so a perfect central home for this system. For storage, I have a collection of SSDs, ...

Simple to work on, Plenty of ventilation with dust covers, looks fantastic, tons of room especially for a mid-size tower, Fits the 3090 Founders Edition!

Awesome now that's its done but this was by far the absolute worst building experience ever the commander pro is adhesived in bottom on the case in plain site took quite some sound doing to pry it up and stick in the back where it belongs OUT OF SITE be careful when you're doing that i almost broke the thing are you kidding me corsair why am i spending so much on a gorgeous case so i can have a mess of wires out out on display for everyone to see that aside it there isnt enough room on the back side to hide cables spent over an hour and half trying different routing to get it to all fit and im still not happy with it luckily i cant see it on my desk. Those 2 incredibly poor design problems aside the case is beautiful and feels very premium i love the magnetic doors not having to unscrew something when i need to get inside the case front panel io is great one think is did add anyway would should be there in the first place is and extention to the psu cover so it spans the whole length of case looks way nicer. Apologies for my overly excessive rant above to summarize if you can handle some frustration with routing cables and you can pry up the commander off that tar strip its on then go for it its great when its all done otherwise do yourself a favor and get nzxt or fractal they know what they're doing

Third - You REALLY need to plan out your fans for intake/exhaust because if you go with an AIO cooler as I did, it really changes things up. And with how the case air flows it can make a huge difference. Not only that, but you also need to plan out your wiring because holy smokes you have ZERO room for error on this. Sloppy wiring and cable management will literally kill the look of any build you put in this case

But I assume Corsair has done their due diligence with shock, vibe and drop testing. I'll start with my issues, and why 3 stars. Could have easily been 5. It boils down to 2 things: First is a quality control issue with Corsair

Positives: 1. Build quality is amazing. Everything feels very solid (no paper-thin sheet metal), cable grommets to route everything 2

The $99 Zalman case this replaced had 3. 3. Cabling shroud is not adequately sized for the amount of wiring required to light this case up. If the engineering team took the cable bundle and measured it's circumference the shroud would have been bigger

Plenty of room length wise but pay attention to max heights and widths for heatsinks and GPU's. Also don't forget to consider the extra width needed for a PCI express cable if yours plugs in the side of the GPU. (wasn't a problem on mine and the cable adds another inch or so but check.) Cons: The mount points for the fans are curved shaped and bend of you tighten the fan screws too much much