Construction diary
Now it’s getting exciting, because now the SUP-01 has to show how it performs in practice. Because I had hot-spot problems with almost all of my graphics cards in the CTE-Design cases from Thermaltake, it was clear from the outset that I would have to test this case several times. For the build diary, I grabbed the white-painted RTX 3070 Ti because I thought it looked best with the system and also reacted relatively sensitively to unusual installation positions.
The following hardware was to be installed in the case for the practical test:
Before installing the board, I attached the bracket for the planned LIAN LI AIO. Simply loosen the AM4 retention and screw in the new screws, done.
As always, the CPU, RAM and NVME were pre-assembled and the board was quickly installed thanks to the centering nubs.
The first part of the graphics card installation turned out to be child’s play. Plug in the riser, screw it in, done.
There’s not much to say about installing the power supply unit either:
All front I/O power cables connected:
The next step was to connect the AIO. First of all, a few photos to get an impression of the Trinity 360:
I also found the application of the thermal paste quite exciting. LIAN LI includes a foil with the AIO that is comparable to the X-Apply foil that Igor recently tested. Normally you apply the paste to the center of the CPU with the stencil, but because this was too fiddly for me in the installed state, I spread the paste on the coldplate, as is also done with pre-installed thermal paste:
The installation of the AIO then turned out to be relatively awkward, because only now did I realize that the cooler/pump combination does not fit anywhere through the openings from the rear to the front chamber. The plate in the lid of the housing has to be removed for this.
I then mounted the AIO and fans externally on the bracket provided and was briefly shocked to find that the whole apparatus wouldn’t fit at all.
Fortunately, the angled connections on the radiator of the LIAN LI AIO can be rotated, otherwise it would have been really embarrassing by now at the latest.
Everything finally installed! But it still looks a bit forced and cramped, doesn’t it?
The connections are located directly on the CPU cable and directly above the socket on the board. Yes, you don’t hear about AIOs leaking or leaking so often anymore, but at least for me it makes me feel uneasy.
The mounted radiator and the rear cable management:
Now it was time to mount the graphics card. According to LIAN LI, the closer the fans are to the front grille, the better the cooling of the graphics card. So I installed the graphics card in the two front slots and was immediately annoyed that the card would never be centered in the front – the inner Monk was horrified.
I really like the idea of being able to fix the graphics card at the top to ensure a secure hold when transporting the computer.
However, the implementation is somewhat unfortunate, as the device requires the fan cover and the backplate to be exactly the same length, which is not the case with the 3070Ti SG.
Once the graphics card had been installed more or less correctly, the bracket with the three exhaust fans was mounted:
And finally, all the external parts were refitted.
Before the test run, the next excitement followed. Connecting the display cable. I’ll leave two pictures without saying a word:
The hearts of RGB fans will surely beat faster when they see how beautifully the light from the integrated ARGB strips (which, by the way, reminded me strongly of the Dark Base Pro 901) is distributed around the side window.
But once you see the GPU fans through the front, the joy is immediately gone.
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