Corsair Obsidian Series 1000D vs Lian Li PC-O11 Air Mini

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...

5-inch (~37mm) wooden blocks under the case feet to give my bottom intake fans access to more air. The factory feet are kinda short considering they give you the option to mount fans down there. One last thing - if you look at reviews of this case from around the time it launched, you'll probably see people complaining about the hard drive cage being riveted in. At some point in early 2022, Lian Li silently made a small revision that changed these rivets to Philips screws

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.

This case instead uses the ultra-fine mesh approach that a lot of modern cases use where they just use very, well, fine and densely populated holes in...

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

Hello good people, I'm Dmitry. I'm going after the tropical look because I am expecting to be refreshed with the airflow from this thing. This is the ...

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

I thought it could pop back in, but that wasn't the case. It wasn't a big deal for me since I intended to use my own fans, but I could see how this would be a huge issue for someone who needed the included fans. Another oversight in quality control was the different sized motherboard standoffs installed from the factory. Some were much longer than others

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

I have a DTX motherboard (ASUS - ROG-CROSSHAIR-VIII-IMPACT) and have found it difficult to find small form fact cases that will fit the TDX board. After trying three small cases, I decided to move upward in size to the Lian Li Air Mini as it was the first case to take my DTX motherboard and Corsair 280mm AIO comfortably. I bought the vertical mount for the GPU and have plenty of clearance for the NVMe SO-DIMM.2 card which sits proud on the motherboard