Lian Li TU150 Review - A Thicc Ncase M1

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso on paper the lien li tu 150 is the compact case that a lot of you have been waiting for affordable premium with peak cooling potential overall this is a solid offering from lien Li so let's dive into the TU 150 check out cooling and whether or not this is the case for your ITX build so as always let's start off with a size comparison and this might disappoint a few of you as it did me initially the fact is the t-150 is not really a small form-factor case at all it's definitely an ITX case just not under the 20 liter cutoff if you are expecting the TU 150 to be a more affordable version of the N case m1 you're going to be very disappointed because these are two completely different cases in fact the TU 150 is a lot closer to the NZXT th 210 both in volume and footprint although the TU 150 hits a nice price point of 109 US dollars it comes in at twenty three point seven liters in volume which is almost double that of the N case m1 and just 3.5 liters less than the NZXT h2 ten that's the case that offers big support for a i/os and large tower coolers at a price point of just $89 so there is stiff competition from NZXT now the reason that I'm making a strong comparison against the N case m1 as well is that for one they look very similar and because Liam Lee actually do the manufacturing for the N case m1 that's why the aluminium panels look identical available in both silver and black by the way they're also using the same toast effect that I've never been a fan of and also the same push pin mechanism for the side panels which does secure things nicely the feet also have spaces built in to elevate the case further off of the ground and while this may help with air flow for the bottom intake fans I personally don't like the overall stance that this gives the enclosure I found that the 3d printed end case m1 feet that I designed do fit nicely here as well giving the t-150 a lower profile look you can find a link to those case feet in the description the tempered glass side panel has been done really well and the top perimeter has been blacked out to hide the SFX power supply which is mounted towards the top right of the case you also have a collapsible handle at the top which does support the entire case quite well and is mounted directly to the frame the top panel is completely blocked off and just reserved for cable management personally I would have preferred this panel to be used for improved ventilation instead IO is located at the top here as well featuring USB type-c but the power button on my sample feels unfortunately cheap and rattles around for air intake the front panel does have a quite large gap at the ball for air to be pulled in by a 120mm fan and below the GPU were able to fit two 120mm fans quite comfortably just like the N case m1 so radiator placement and water cooling support for a case of this size is honestly lacking a little there's no 240 mm a IO support that you'll find in the end case m1 just a slot for a single 120 mil a IO at the rear when I saw this case at Computex I initially thought that a dual 120 mm a i/o configuration was possible but unfortunately the fan slot at the front of the case is positioned too high towards the power supply so although a 120 mm fan will fit a radiator will not that's okay though because the big focus when it comes to cooling in the TU 150 is the fact that it can accommodate truly big heat sinks for the CPU just like the NZXT h2 10 the TU 150 can fit Noctis monstrous and HD 15 with CPU cooler clearances topping out at 165 millimetres you have some seriously big options that you can fit into this case it's just a shame that you won't be able to use a large tower cooler in the TU 150 with a hybrid called GPU that's something that is possible on the NZXT h2 10 storage is pretty straightforward you can fit a two and a half inch drive to the right of the motherboard and then a two and a half inch or three and a half inch drive on the roof of the case next to the power supply there are plenty of cutouts in the motherboard for routing your cables but I found that if you are using an SFX power supply your cables likely aren't going to be long enough to be routed through them and graphics cards up to three slots will fit here at a length of 320 millimeters but if you are using the bottom to fan slots that's going to be restricted to around 2.2 slots to slot cards will have some room underneath them even if the fans are installed below them the graphics card won't sit directly on top of the fans like a will in the end case and one now let's talk about the thermals so starting with the CPU thermals with our 9900 K the Lele tu 150 is giving us a very strong performance despite the TU 150 being mostly closed off it's able to brute-force its way to the top end of the stack by leveraging the NHD 15 the end case m1 still keeps the top result though and if the TU 150 was better ventilated then it would have easily been able to beat this result as would the Silverstone LD 0-3 using the nh-2 12a for the GPU things are looking pretty okay here too we're seeing the 1080 TI at 69 degrees C which is four degrees over what you'll see on an open test bench again not as good as the well ventilated and case m1 but overall a pretty decent result so where does this put the Lindley tu 150 well for 109 US dollars I think a lot of you are going to be pretty happy with this enclosure for your idx system it's not as space optimized or airflow optimized or something like the encased in one or ghostess one but it's also not as expensive and I also anticipate that it's going to be a lot more readily available to buy one question that has stuck with me throughout the testing of the TU 150 though is would necessarily recommend this over the NZXT h 210 that case has a lot more potential when it comes to radiator clearances and cooling so if you potentially want to do a dual AIO build for your CPU and GPU you could do that in the NZXT and easily outperform the overall thermal performance that you would get in the t-150 the HT 10 is also a little cheaper with the downside that it's not as portable because it's about 15% larger and it does like the handle that the t-150 does have between those two cases there I will have to let you guys decide really depends on what system you are putting inside these cases for the TU 150 though it definitely gets my recommendation overall for an ITX system that isn't sweating the details when it comes to space optimization and airflow optimization and things like that if you're not sweating that sort of stuff then the TU 150 is definitely appropriate it does offer the aluminium and tempered glass aesthetic that so many people have been waiting for at an affordable price point so guys I would love through your thoughts down below on the Lele tu 150 will you be building in this case what do you guys think of the handle do you think that's actually a feature that you guys would use personally I think this is going to be more suited to a desktop system it's not really super portable as it is advertised and marketed as also I have checked stock on Amazon and Newegg and it looks like they're going to be coming in stock in about a month so definitely check out those links down below but just keep in mind that overall shelf stock doesn't seem to be hitting until late next month as always guys a huge thanks for watching and we'll see you all in the next one\n"