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Two spring-loaded SDD trays located behind the motherboard tray allow for a toolless installation of the drives. With the ability to support 3 × 360mm radiators simultaneously, the LANCOOL III can offer custom water-cooling enthusiasts, lots of imagination. The mesh panels located on both sides of the PSU shroud area can be removed for cleaning when the front panel is unattached.
Neutral: The price is a bit of an ouchie, but I believe this is more for custom loop builds anyway, so what's another 60(?) quid for them?Mid-tower chassis with two modes: Normal Mode/ Reverse Mode Feature multi-directional power button and movable IO module Front and side tempered glass panels for components and RGB display Supports up to 3x 360 radiators and a maximum of 10 fans Offers 9 storage drives mounting space Dual-chamber layout with hooks friendly cable management compartment Five optional accessories: Vertical GPU Kit… Sep 7th 2023 Thermaltake Reveals Matcha Green Lineup: Ceres 300 TG ARGB Mid Tower Chassis & ARGENT E700 Real Leather Gaming Chair (8) The side-mounted SSD trays located inside the right PSU shroud panel can support up to 3 x 2.5” SSDs or can be removed to improve airflow. Now that there is a system inside the Lancool III, the building process was easy. Everything seemed to have a place where it belonged, other than the PSU, which I had to remove from the first HDD cage to make room for the larger PSU. The side view is neat and well organized, with no RGB present in this version of the Lancool III.
A fine mesh design has been implemented at the front, top, and both bottom side panels of the LANCOOL III. 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. I like the rubber grommet + thumbscrew mounting method for mech drives - anti vibration is a big deal, and it makes hotswap easy while people not using spinning rust get to keep those parts out of the case With the Lancool III as your PC chassis, you’ll have plenty of scope when it comes to component choices. To begin with, this case can fit motherboards ranging from Mini-ITX all the way to E-ATX boards (under 280mm wide). Furthermore, this PC case is able to house even the largest graphics cards easily, with 8 expansion slots provided and 420mm of clearance. You’ll also be able to install a powerful PSU to power all your components, as Lian Li has provided a dedicated chamber with 220mm of clearance for an ATX power supply.Our acoustic test consists of three scenarios: We run the CPU at full load, the CPU and GPU at full load, and an optimized mode. The CPU full load test runs the CPU and case fans at their maximum speed. For the CPU and GPU full load acoustic test, we also stress the Gigabyte RTX 3070 Ti Gaming OC and set the fans at 75% speed, because in gaming the fans never run at 100 percent and are far too loud when they do.
As the second chamber located on the right side is visible, great consideration has been given to cable management. The LANCOOL III features an upgraded solution to ensure neat cable routing with toolless magnetic cable cover doors, and a well-organized layout for hubs and cables. Built in velcro hooks are cool, but when they age and break how easy to replace with generics are they? If you choose the more traditional air cooling, the Lancool III can support tower coolers up to 185mm (7.3 inches). Supported GPU length is up to 420mm (16.5 inches), so even the most oversized graphics cards should fit without issues.One of my complaints centred around the small screws that are used to secure the SSD covers in the power supply shroud and while this is a totally legitimate issue it is the sort of thing that would get lost in a review of certain other problematic cases that spring to mind. After all, who cares about a few screws if the case runs as hot as a furnace and is a pig to work inside?