1. I watercool virtually everything to keep heat out of the case.
2, I will never ever buy that case and successors of it.
3. I will choose only cases where the IO Panel is on top.
1. Samish, but you said you care about SSD, GPU, VRM cooling, well but those are under water block then if you cool everything. There is no point blowing when you do nothing, let it be silent, allow the water to rise let the rads accumulate heat while you do nothing, that's the whole point of doing WC, it is a capacitator. If you do game, then ramp it up it will disipate much faster also when the ambient air delta is larger. I use dual temp target PWM profile(CPU/GPU) and my pump also doesn't even brake a sweat in idle. There is no difference if your water temp is 32C or 42C at idle.
2. No problems, my non XL is stupid in some bottom mounting regards as reviewers tend to use midgetATX sized boards, you have to drill and cut it, and that's my objective hate for this case, the usual mistake that water cooling people put the front vertical fan trio as intakes, the holes in the metal rear cover are too restrictive, you have to use intake only bottom and back and those must be strong 140mils like TT Toughfans and the top and front side are 120mm, my Typoons and T30. I have placed 360ies at top and front and 280 at bottom, make the feet taller, put more few mm of rubber. In case of problems I thought of doing double 360 at the front side, space allows to screw two rads together there. If the next gen GPUs will be much over 500W then I may consider to increase my heat capacity. I won't even touch MO-RA3 people, we have plenty of those here. They allmost don't care for airflow
only utility. Want to talk about shit airflow, let's talk about some Phanteks, you have to laser cut it to make it right and perform black magic to even put something in.
My Evo tends to rattle in some places, slide in inserts are cool and all that but put more screw holes so the joints don't get the chance to resonate. I have to put rubber pads in some places etc... I don't need to think about it but you LianLi. A generic reviewer should pay attention more to such things. I think it is absolutely the same with this XL. Doing fast aircooling and bye... well I understand it doesn't get paid much, but when doing some PR pics, put the damn ruller besides to get some usefull info for custom loop builders. We get pretty pics from google already, what's even the point doing them then.
It is water cooling oriented case, I find it amusing when people use it for air cooling instead of more tailored for airflow cases. So keep your bitching aside peps, what fits for all fits for nothing.
