Hands-On: Lian Li's LCD Screen fans turn heads and are surprisingly affordable, but not as configurable as I'd like

[Admin]

Lian Li's Uni Fan TL LCD fans look great and start at under $50. But you'll have to decide which side you want the screen on before buying the fans, and you can't mix LCD and non-LCD fans together, which is a shame.

Hands-On: Lian Li's LCD Screen fans turn heads and are surprisingly affordable, but not as configurable as I'd like : Read more

 

[court655]

I'll be sticking with my Arctic PWM PST fans. Could get a pack of 5 for just the cost of one of those and they perform excellently.

 

[kamehaiku]

I'll be sticking with noctua nf-a12x25. No frills, just performance. These are sold to sheep who need rgb and now more screens.

 

[g-unit1111]

LCD screens are the new RGB? No thanks.

 

[kamehaiku]

LCD screens are the new RGB? No thanks.

More things to go wrong for a bit of eye candy. Not worth it.

 

[Tonet666]

I'll be sticking with my Arctic PWM PST fans. Could get a pack of 5 for just the cost of one of those and they perform excellently.

Yeap, bought from their website AIO CCL Liquid Freezer II 240. Already have 6 120 PWM PST installed on me case. They are silent as a mouse in church. 😆
No RGB or other lights. Only the one one the mobo and GPU.

 

[husker]

More things to go wrong for a bit of eye candy. Not worth it.

I hear you, but...
Nothing is "worth it" when it comes to looks. Cars, fashion, jewelry, home décor - it's all just vanity and show. And thank goodness for it or we would live in one big, ugly, boring, and oh-so-practical world.

 

[Dementoss]

I hear you, but...
Nothing is "worth it" when it comes to looks. Cars, fashion, jewelry, home décor - it's all just vanity and show. And thank goodness for it or we would live in one big, ugly, boring, and oh-so-practical world.

Fair enough but, £47 for a 14cm fan in the UK? No!

 

[Maebius]

Seeing LEDs and RGB in every small thing is borderline annoying.
What's also annoying is that moving up hardware tiers, includes some rgb/led in the cost due to product segmentation.... can't want the best thing without LEDs, right? Here's an extra 50$ of extra cost for funky lights.

However, these new fans are something different altogether!
The small screens super look cool and double as something useful as well!

Kudos to Lian Li! I expect them to sell exceptionally well!

 

[gunslingor]

I highly recommend avoiding lian li products. Main reasons:

• The lcd fans consume insaine resources, like 3% cpu or gpu. Horrendous software processing and trying to push video out of usb 2.0 are the cause.
• They revise hardware constantly and pointlessly, just lateral moves. It means everything you buy is obsolete in 3 months, they stop supporting it, ignoring bug reports and feature requests while they release new dan models. They ignore real software problems and put on lateral move hardware.
• They have so many unnecessary variations of fans now, they only update L connect for new fans and never fix the old... they often break an old fan when a new is released. There software development is minimum touch rule, the hardware is maximum touch.
• It's an absolute mess... they seem to have swapped the lifecycles of hardware and software, more hardware is being released and the software to run it was written by high school children it would appear... they ignore the software basically.
• By my measurement, when they release a new version of L connect and that new version breaks something, there turnaround time to repair it is 3 months.
• They don't even let you add a ram gauge, let alone a custom temperature gauge or other standard or custom parameters.

Seriously guys lian li wasn't what they used to be, I won't even buy their cases anymore, it really has gotten that bad. When I set 15 lcd fans to cpu gauge, 45% of cpu had to be used to make that happen... it is really difficult to write software this bad even if you try.

My advice is to run, don't buy lian li, pretty lights but every other measurable parameter of their products has become a joke. They never should have started making software and firmware, they clearly have no idea what they are doing... or they might just be putting immediate profit over long term reputation... bought them for 20 to 30 years, never again... tried the TL and SL fan lines, both were jokes, returned and went noctua.

These aren't computer parts for expensive custom builds, they are toys... use em only if you care more about pretty lights than actual performance... cause yeah, 45% of cpu to use them. Good luck!