Lian Li L-Connect 3

System Information

The Lian Li L-Connect 3 app looks pretty well designed, with a standard application layout as the main menu on the left and sub menus along the top. That doesn't mean it is without bugs, though. While normal users may download version 1.0.7 of the app, we were provided version 1.1.4, but did encounter wrong data being provided in the System Info panel. For example, the monitor refresh rate communicated at 300 Hz instead of 75 Hz.

Lighting

Both the "Quick/Sync Lighting" and "Strimer Plus" menu items revolve around setting up the lighting within your system. Lian Li made the app smart enough for the "Strimer Plus" entry to only show up if you have one connected properly. There are a wide variety of modes you may cycle through, all of which are customizable in terms of color, speed, and direction of the animation. You may also adjust individual color channels to your liking, with each of these channels consisting of two strips on the Strimer Plus V2 extension cables.

Settings

Under the settings tab, you may adjust if and how the app auto-runs during Windows boot and which language and temperature units you would like to see used. In addition to this, there is a "Device" tab, which we could never access even after fiddling around for a bit. It supposedly shows the Strimer Plus Controller version, which is also clearly visible under the "Update" tab, and the hardware functions just fine as well. So what the "Device" tab is for is not quite clear.

In Use

Just like the original Strimer Plus series, you may connect all your cables to the controller hub at the same time, but as previously mentioned, only the 24-pin and one selected PCIe cable can be addressed at any given time.


The colors on the Strimer Plus V2 are excellently diffused and bright. We also individually addressed each color channel through the app with our TPU brand colors to show you the addressable ARGB strip pairs. In essence, every cable group of the Strimer Plus V2 comes with two color channels, so the ATX and triple 8-pin variants have six, with the dual 8-pin PCIe version offering four. Below, we embedded a video of the various modes and animations of the Lian Li Strimer V2 in action. Naturally, as you can see in the video as well, animations nicely fade across these channels.