I must admit – the LianLi O11 Dynamic Evo is a pretty good computercase. It is quite expensive, yes, but nevertheless, it has good build-quality, some exceptional new and neat ideas (thanks Der8auer) and it is fun to work in. Sure, some people hate it, because they see it as cheat-code to make watercooled systems look cooler than they probably are while spending less effort getting there, especially with distroplates. This might by partially true, but so what? Haters gonna hate…
Some upgrade-parts that not everybody needs are also available, like vertical (and upright) gpu-brackets and such. However, the Upgrade that is most interesting, is the front-I/O-bracket which – despite it’s name – is mounted on the top side. When using this, you’ll end up having an empty shell where the I/O-hardware has been sitting in. While it is basically waste from now on, I always had in mind to use it for some mod, like a character-display for status-things, or a LED-bar for the same porpose. While thinking about this, I missed another item much more on current PCs, and this is a cardreader. Occasionally i shoot photos with my mirrorless cam flash images for raspberry pis or install some router OS to a CF-Card for diskless router-appliances. Modern PC-cases don’t feature any external accessable 3.5″ or 5.25″ drive bays any more, where a cardreader would have naturally go to in the past. So I made my own…