Lian-Li O7S review

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If we peek at the backside we notice how tiny it is in width, just under 15cm. That immediately exposes an issue, you cannot use CPU coolers that are taller than 85mm. So you will need either a low-profile heat-pipe cooler, or (of course) liquid cooling. If you'd be using air cooling in this chassis I'd curse you anyway, as this build is all about aesthetics.

You'll notice that the chassis has four expansion slots for located at the bottom and placed horizontally, we'll show that more in-depth on the next pages. It is one of the primary features of this chassis, as you will be positioning your graphics card horizontally and thus get full vision of the front-side of it. 

All standard ATX motherboard board types obviously fit fine as well as Extended ATX but not XL-ATX form factor motherboards. Is anyone already missing the power supply ? :)



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Back to the right top side again, the top side cover is a big panel that can be removed, that is all about ventilation alright. We'll look at it in more detail later though. Hidden under there are three 120mm fans, but a 360mm radiator can be hidden in there as well. I say hidden as indeed you will not be able to see ot once your build is ready.
 

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Front panel IO - As you'll notice, all down below is a power button, no reset button though. Then 3.5 mm headphone and microphone jacks. In Guru3D blue, four USB 3.0 ports. Each two USB 3.0 ports have need a cable connected to the motherboard though. Most motherboards will only have one connector, Lian-Li however includes a converter cable so that you can use at least a free USB 2.0 port.


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All the way at the bottom we see that we place the chassis onto a feet rest, the chassis rests on two rubber sheets to prevent it from resonating. The chassis is as you can understand not the lightest once installed, but empty it weights in at roughly 10Kg.

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