News Lian Li launches L-shaped power supplies for dual-chamber PC cases

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My initial thought was "oh, they are reinventing BTX?", and "this is dumb", but after thinking a bit more, I like it.
You can mount all the connectors on the same PCB as the rest of the PSU, and not have to worry about internal cables to get a riser board wired up.
I'm not sold on the built-in internal USB hub, because it doesn't let you pull telemetry from the PSU itself. That's a huge missed opportunity, IMO.

And I disagree that it's an L-shape, it's more of a b/d/p-shape.
 

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I haven't looked at dual-chambered cases in depth, but I can already see a huge missed opportunity. The point of having 2 chambers should be to separate cooling of the CPU and GPU, by having a place to mount the CPU radiator where it gets fresh airflow and exhausts directly to the case exterior.
 
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I'm not sold on the built-in internal USB hub, because it doesn't let you pull telemetry from the PSU itself. That's a huge missed opportunity, IMO.
This was a huge missed opportunity with ATX 3.0, in my opinion. They could've just used I2C or I3C over one of the wires from the PSU to the motherboard. I think there even is some communication, but they failed to standardize on full telemetry (I'm thinking of something like how storage devices have SMART).
 

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Great! I just built in Lian Li's new gigantic case ( O11D EVO XL) and used a 1300 W Corsair Shift PSU. Having this thing would have been 1000 times better. You know that the PSU is hidden back behind the panel on the blind side of the case and plugging stuff in was awkward. This would be great. I might actually go back in and do this even though it is already built and running fine. This looks too cool to pass up. I assume the 12vHPWR is the new 2x6 version with the new 2xs cable to match....
 

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My initial thought was "oh, they are reinventing BTX?", and "this is dumb", but after thinking a bit more, I like it.
You can mount all the connectors on the same PCB as the rest of the PSU, and not have to worry about internal cables to get a riser board wired up.
I'm not sold on the built-in internal USB hub, because it doesn't let you pull telemetry from the PSU itself. That's a huge missed opportunity, IMO.

And I disagree that it's an L-shape, it's more of a b/d/p-shape.
Not what I was thinking when they said L-shaped either, to me it is more like a PSU with a foot.
 
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I like the concept for the most part, especially having some USB expansion to power USB-based devices or if one runs additional fan controllers/aRGB controllers, would allow for plugging those into it and reducing the nest of wires going to the mobo.

I think it would be great if Seasonic could do a similar addition to their Syncro PSU line, since they already move the connectors to the backplane unit, leaving the base unit free to add USB headers.
 
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