Haven’t had enough of panoramic cases yet? No? Good stuff, we still love building them. What would you say if we could add panorama to a panoramic case? Don’t understand my meaning? Well, allow me to explain!
TRYX have been in touch and have asked us to build with the glass fronted, panoramic, behemoth of a case that is the Luca L70. This case got an absolute beating upon release for poor build quality, but yet aesthetically it looks outstanding. It was quite the predicament, play it safe and use a different case or put some faith in a new brand? Does fortune favour the brave? Well, we decided to take the risk, so I guess we’re about to find out. So we have the panoramic, on to the panorama!
This one is a bit more straightforward to explain. To go with the Luca L70 we also received the acclaimed TRYX Panorama 360 ARGB all in one cooler. Many AIO’s have screens on their pump, as does this one, so what makes it different? Well as soon as you see it it becomes obvious! The screen is massive and curved. It reminds me a little of an advertising billboard. It’s a AMOLED panel, so it should produce inky blacks, high levels of contrast and vivid colours, or at least that’s the hope!
Case Overview
The Luca L70 arrived well packaged (which I’m quite glad of, I may have dropped it from about 2ft - shhh - don’t tell Matt!). The box was similar to one from ProArt, in that it had 4 plastic clips to undo and the top of the box slides off, which makes for a more premium feeling. In the box the case was covered by a logoed material cover, accompanied by a plastic box. Inside the plastic box there were all the case screws, a few branded velcro straps and some cable ties, there were also separated compartments to keep the screws - a nice touch. Once unboxed it dawned on us how big the case really is so it’s probably a good time to get into dimensions and hardware support:
Dimensions: L540 x W262 x H 572
Hardware Support:
Motherboard - up to E-ATX (max 280mm)
Max Graphics Card Length - 460mm
Power Supply - ATX up to 190mm
Radiator Support - (dependant on PSU placement) up to 420mm top, 420mm side and 360mm bottom
Air Cooler - up to 170mm
The front and side of the case are a very slightly tinted, tempered glass. It is raised off the desk by around 40mm. The feet…. Foot….. whatever you want to call it, forms 2 X’s, it’s a curious design as the back panel goes all the way down to the desk, so there is potential for restricted airflow. Speaking of the back panel, it looks fine, a sheet of metal with some airflow holes, but getting it to slide off took some effort!
Inside the case there is a modular, customisable interior. You could have the power supply at the top or the bottom, to do this you need to unscrew and move the power supply caddy, motherboard tray and a spacer at the bottom. It’s not a complex process but you’d need to consider how you want your airflow. Having the PSU at the top limits the case to 2 x 120mm fans at the top but having it at the bottom limit the lower fans to either a single 120mm or 140mm. With the air flow provided by the fans on the side of the case and the exhaust on the rear it shouldn’t make too much difference. Though I’m sure that there are many in the community that would design their airflow to push maximum performance, and there is joy in that trial and error! We went for bottom intake and all other fans as exhaust.
Cooler Overview
As I said earlier, the Panorama 360 has been well received and reviewed by the community. Of course we’ll run the system through its paces which should give us a good idea of how it performs. We got the ARGB version, which includes 3 ARGB fans premounted to the radiator, the cables daisy chained along side. The cooler head is ginormous, though having a 6.5 inch display it kinda had to be, and it works in its favour. When you pull the display from the housing you’ll see a small fan, which is very similar to the one found on the ASUS Riujin III - its purpose is to help cool the VRM’s.
Parts List
How Was The Build?
In short this was another simple build, as large cases tend to be. Stripping the case is very straightforward, even if getting the metal side panel off took some effort! We did play around with the modular internal structure of the case, but decided we’d keep the power supply up top. Moving the panels about was simple enough, remove the retaining screws and slide out the panels, replacing them into their other orientation. We had a bit of a task vertical mounting the graphics card while using the included strain relief support in the box. We managed to hook it into a recess on the card and it kept it stable. It’s not designed to work this way so your results may vary!
One of the downsides to this setup was that as the radiator was not mounted at the top of the case you could see the daisy chained cables down the side of the fans, they did look a bit messy. We cable tied them down, which helped a little!
The cable management was very easy. Behind the motherboard there is an ample cable channel covered by a magnetic door. I was a little disappointed that the channel didn’t have velcro already in there waiting, I had to thread it myself. Though I know that is very much a first world problem!
The build quality of the case was par for the course I guess. It wasn’t outstanding, there is a bit of flex in the case, but it’s not enough to concern us. There is a chance that given its early reviews that there have been minor changes since launch, who knows! We would like to see a proper latching system for the front glass panel in place of the rubber stopper on the bottom and some refinement to how the metal side panel attaches.
The Kanali software which runs the cooler display was a solid attempt from a very young company. It all felt fairly intuitive and didn’t take long to figure out navigation. We were very happy to be able to use MP4 files at 2K resolution on the gorgeous AMOLED display! Though when moving the build between desks we noticed the animation on screen did revert to default until we opened the software again. It appears this happens on restart
Airflow
I must admit we were a little concerned about airflow, under the bottom intake fans there is a bracket, then a layer with airflow holes, then a dust filter. It was a bit more than is normal and we had expected a lot of turbulence. Beyond that we were concerned the feet might further restrict the intake. The next hurdle it would have to overcome is having a side mounted radiator with exhaust fans. There is always restriction when moving air through a radiator, but above it there were 2 more, unrestricted fans also exhausting. There was a strong possibility that the top fans would take air away from the radiator. Perhaps if building again we might have orientated the radiator fans as intake. Though with all that said the airflow visual surprised us, the intake fans had little difficulty sucking in air and keeping both the graphics card and radiator well fed. The top fans exhausted the smoke but did not starve the radiator - a fantastic result bearing in mind that the odds were stacked against it!
Performance
This was going to be interesting, it was our first experience with the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X 3D. We know it’s going to do well, there is plenty of comparison testing you can find online comparing it to both its predecessor and its rivals. We have plenty of data we could compare, but lets be honest each time we build the system is different, so any comparison we make would be meaningless as a direct comparison. We test because: it gives us a chance to play some games and testing allows us to diagnose any issues with the system. We share our test data because we get asked how each system performs, and as we know some have replicated our builds we hope it informs as to what you could expect should you decide to do the same!
We were very happy with the performance of this one, it ran cool, and with minimal noise on the highest graphical presets at 4k on our games of choice. Results below:
Ambient temp 18.6°C
Spider-Man Remastered
3840x2160
Very High
138-144 fps
60°C CPU
58°C GPU
Forza Horizon 5
3840x2160
Extreme
112-133 fps
57°C CPU
58°C GPU
CPU-Z
Max Temp 70°C
Fan Speed ~1400 rpm
CPUPower Draw 128w
Furmark2
3840x2160
Avg fps 141
Max temp 63°C
Hotspot 73°C
Roundup
We have achieved a panoramic panorama, and we’re very pleased with how it turned out. The Luca L70 is something worth looking at if the styling is to your taste. We thought the modular aspect was clever and well implemented. To be able to shift around the internals to suit allows for a more customised build with relatively low effort. As mentioned there is a bit of flex in the case, but that’s true of most cases on the market! Looking back on the build it might have been an idea to play around with fan orientation a little more, though it did not harm the airflow, perhaps we could have been better optimised.
The Panorama 360 is a solid contender. It has no issues keeping the CPU cool, and the screen is about as big and bright as it could be. We liked that there was a fan under the screen to help cool the VRMs. Though it’s not something new, or exciting, it is a thoughtful addition and helps to further justify the price. If TRYX are reading, it might be worth looking at making the fan cables a little easier to manage, though it’s a very very minor nit-pick!
If you want the animation we used on the cooler, feel free to grab it here: https://bit.ly/TRYXPano
Full Video Below.
Blog post written by Sam Thwaytes
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