The White Night Lian Li Build

You have the absolute correct mindset. Rushing and cutting corners does no one any good. If I may add more context, it was your pseudo that inspired me to start dabbling in custom loops. Head on over to the "experience" thread. I have some photos to be posted soon.

Nice case.....thanks for laying out the parts and links.  Why does Amazon inflate the price on this case so high..2x ...is it a price vs demand issue?

Gonna help a buddy do a case swap on his XPS 8930 as he is going to get one of the new GPU's as they become available.

That version of this Lian Li case seems to check all the boxes and looks great with the white versions of the AIO's available. 

Likely will follow the mad modders and dabble a little and add those custom cables to his swap.

@FinalTouch68 

Question about how u integrated the aRGB fans from the Lian LI RGB lighting controls which are found on the case to the Corsair iCUE RGB lighting on the CPU cooler and fans which are software controlled.

I know that newer Corsair RGB cases have a lighting node panel integrated on the backside which allows you to control the lighting on all the LL RGB Corsair AIO and case fans connected to that panel via USB to the motherboard using the iCUE software.

The Lian Li RGB Mesh II case uses 4 pin 5v aRGB fans which are daisy chained,  powered by SATA and are then controlled by the buttons on top of the case.  

Do you have to control the colors on the fans of the AIO and the LIAN LI case fans separately or can you control all the fans from one source?  

@HanoverB 

Well the case was more because I couldn't find it in stock any where and I really wanted this case. It has a ton of options to it. 

As of right now the front RGB fans came with the case and addressable from the motherboard. If you put the M button on the top to the 8th node they become addressable from to the iCUE Software . The rad fans are basically running off the Corsair iCUE software as well as the ram. 

Now' I am changing all that this week when my other three Corsair RGB 120's come. I purchased the Commander Pro and a CORSAIR RGB Fan LED Hub. I will be then changing all RGB lighting to this set up. It will simplify the RGB and look way better with my wire management in the back.

I may use the case RGB wiring for external desk lighting. Haven't decided what I am going to do with the on-case RGB switches.

Hope I addressed your question correctly.

@FinalTouch68 

Thanks for that.....answered perfectly.

Nice that case gives you the option of having it's built in aRGB lighting controls switched to software control via M8 as long as you have the appropriate header on the motherboard.

Should look nice and I have read that the fan control via the Commander and the lighting control via the lighting node integrate well via the Corsair software.

If ultimately changing fans out, then the way to go would be to buy the non-RGB LANCOOL MESH II PERFORMANCE?    Problem with that is the case only comes in black.......why?

Well I am not changing the fans out just adding them. Two on the floor and one in the back door. Simply just wiring the front 3 to the new system. Total of 8 fans. 

@Anonymous 

Yeah I was considering that at install. How ever there will be three more hard drives in the basement pretty soon. (only because I can lol) so I was hoping to send some airflow through the lower bay.

How ever I will try that out and see if temps are different. At this point temps are doing well and I think I will be able to run a 3080 or even a 3090 with out a problem.

Thanks for the suggestion I will certainly try it out. So 5 in 3 out hmmm

"Update on the White Night"

Received my last three fans last night and arriving today will be my RGB hub. Commander Pro installed already.

I will update photo once RGB is live.

Reason for post is Temps. Once I water cool my GPU (RTX3080) when it gets here, Do I really need to water cool considering these temps.

• CPU Idle: 34c
• GPU Idle: 35c
• CPU Load: 49c
• GPU Load: 62c

Picture with out her lite up. And airflow arrows. (suggestions on airflow?)

Might be adding a prop in the interior. 

One more addition to The White Knight in progress.

Soon this panel will be installed on the lower section of the left side in the vented door. 

I ran across a video on Jays2cents on making a sensor panel. I thought it was really sweet and started to build my first panel. Picture below. If anyone is interested I can set up links to learn this. @Anonymous I think this would be a sweet add to your build. Picture of the panel I am making (needs more work) and the LCD screen I will be using.

My work so far in AIDA64 Extreme using photoshop for the background images.

The screen I have purchased.

Let me know what you think and like I said if your interested in this really kool idea let me know and I will post links to all the places you need to learn how to build your own.

@Anonymous 

Yeah I am just trying it out. That's just my first build of the screen background. There is endless designs you can come up with. What ever your build looks like you can incorporate into the screen background. Also there is many graphs, bars and all sorts of things you can add to the screen with the program. Here is the size. This is really sweet and I am glad I stumbled upon it.

Link to screen I purchased on Amazon      How to create a fully customized SensorPanel in AIDA64

*UPDATE*

EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 FTW3 ULTRA finally arrived. Let the tweaking and testing begin.............

First Times Spy Benchmark already scored 2100 more points then the 2080Ti

Still need to order some more white cables but she's up and running.