LIAN LI Lancool III RGB Black Aluminum/SECC/Tempered Glass Gaming Case with 4 × 140 PWM Fans (ARGB) - LANCOOL 3R-X

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With a spacious interior, the Lancool III is able to accommodate some of the largest components that are available. For the foundation of your next PC, you can opt for a whopping E-ATX motherboard, and if you choose to air cool your CPU, you can easily fit a tower cooler inside thanks to having 185mm of clearance. Moving on to the star of any PC when it comes to gaming or workflow, the GPU. With 420mm of clearance, the Lancool III is able to accommodate even the longest of long boi graphics cards, with room to spare. Magnetic, hinged, and removable cable cover doors hide cable clusters and provide easy access at the same time. The build went smoothly. I noticed that in most of the panels were totally removable, and were largely replaced with thumbscrews for an almost tool-less removal. Optionally moving the IO to the bottom will be an asbolute winner with certain crowds - floor PC users want it on the top, while some desk users would salivate over that bottom mount The two removable 4mm tempered glass panels located on each side of the case can be opened by pulling the front aluminum handle.

Note that the PSU shroud itself is not adjustable so the presence of the power supply (which could be an SFX unit) doesn't affect accessibility to the motherboard or other components. The front IO is removable, and can be placed to be oriented at the top or the bottom of the case. Two screws makes the change easy work. To put this case through its cooling paces we will be using a test system consisting of an AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, Sapphire RX 6800 XT graphics and an SSD. This system allows us to produce a substantial amount of heat and effectively test the Lian Li Lancool III ‘s cooling capabilities.Comes equipped with 4 x 140mm high airflow PWM fans that provide strong out-of-box cooling performance. The Lancool III provides a plethora of options for keeping all your components cool. To begin with, the front mesh panel facilitates great airflow and dust filtration. This is due to it having 15mm holes 2mm apart offering an exceptional 51% porosity. Out of the box, this case comes with four 140mm PWM fans pre-installed at the front and rear of the case. Alongside these fans, another three 120mm fans can be installed above the power supply chamber, and three 140mm fans can be attached to the top of the case. This being Lian Li's most basic version of the Lancool III gives you just about everything except for lighting, which you could very well add later. Although there isn’t much difference between the RGB and non-RGB model, we feel the marginal price difference between them is warranted considering the change is just RGB fans and the colour of the chassis.

Multiple storage drive mounting locations are supported for up to 12 x 2.5” SSDs or 4 x 3.5” HDDs and 8 x 2.5” SSDs. Built in velcro hooks are cool, but when they age and break how easy to replace with generics are they? Oh, and if you find the traditional standard GPU installation a bit boring, the company will also offer a vertical GPU mounting kit, similar to the O11D Evo, with your choice of PCIe 3.0 or 4.0 riser cables. The kit will even let you mount the card in two places above the PSU shroud so you can leave clearance for fans or let it sit lower down if you don’t have spinners there. The company hasn’t yet told us how much the riser kit would cost. Testing Hardware In testing the Lancool III, the system, which runs an Intel i5 12600K and an NVIDIA RTX 2080 Super FE, ran cool, which was expected. The 12600K tended to hover in the low to mid-20s at idle and loaded up to about the high 60s. The NVIDIA RTX 2080 Super FE sat around 30C idle, and once it was loaded up, about 65C.With the ability to support 3 × 360mm radiators simultaneously, the LANCOOL III can offer custom water-cooling enthusiasts, lots of imagination.