In this video we're going to do a complete review of the Lian Li LANCOOL 216 RW PC case we're first
going to go over some acoustic and thermal testing then we're going to go over the overall
build quality of the case then we're going to go over my opinions on the case and I'd love to get
your feedback on that as well now without wasting any more time let's get started so before we can
start testing I want to show you what the ambient noise level in this room is with the computer off
it's about 40 DB I do have a N.A.S. running in the background
but that's the only thing on aside from the light so I'm going to go ahead turn it on real quick
I'm going to wait for it to get into windows aside from the number of fans and the liquid
cooling unit you have in your system if you want your system to stay nice and cool and stay quiet
you need to configure the PWM modes within the bios so let's go over this real quick and it's
going to be different depending what motherboard you have but on the ASRock board if we come over
here to HW monitor scroll down a little bit you're going to notice we have chassis fan number one set
to silent we don't have anything connected there chassis fan number two where we have the fans
for the liquid cooling unit connected is set to PWM mode and standard under here there's silent
mode standard mode performance and full speed performance in full speed are kind of loud so
standard has an idle RPM relatively low so that way it won't cause a lot of noise and then as the
heat builds up in the system that goes up cooling the system even more and you're going to notice
that Trend all along here chassis fan number one PWM standard now chassis fan number two is the
radiator that one should always be running at full speed and especially on the Fractal Design
s36 Lumen it's whisper quiet so you won't hear it since it is a three pin it's running in DC mode
at full speed then PWM standard PWM standard what does standard mean so if we come under fantastic
we can see all fan settings standard set to that the fans are running at 50 and then as they're
needed they shoot up to a hundred percent then that's all fans so we have silent here
that's silent it's extremely low we can do it doesn't matter then we can do standard we can
do performance then we can do full speed mind you that's at 100 doesn't matter what the temperature
is it's at a hundred percent so you can set that for all the fans or you could set it
for fan number one fan number two chassis fan number one fan number two number three number
four totally up to you how you set that and of course you can always take care of that later
on but that's something incredibly important that you're going to want to take note for
overall performance and noise level anyway let's keep going okay so now that we're in the desktop
about 38 DB I'm going to go ahead start up Ida 64 extreme
and we're going to go ahead and run a CPU stress
test we're going to stress it 100 to see how loud it gets
system or the CPU is about 63 degrees
stressing at a hundred percent
at the front of the system we're about let's say a foot away
about 45 DB now just above the liquid cooling unit
about 65 DB and of course it's where we expect it to be the loudest at the top
yep 65. now aside from the top the other hot
spot or the other loud spot is going to be behind the rear fan
hit, hit 52 but it's about 50 DB regularly back here
temperatures about 25 C the rear fan were the heat will be expelling now along the top were the real
CPU heat would be expelling we're about 26 C maybe 25 not bad at all even though it should be hot
it's 64 degrees inside of the case and it feels like cool air coming through the top over here
we are stressing the CPU at a hundred percent this is the AMD R5 7700 processor it's keeping nice and
cool with this Fractal Design s36 Lumen liquid cooling unit then along the front of this case
we want the air in the front coming in cooler than of course the air expelling it's about 22 degrees
nice and cool just checking in everywhere down here just to make sure
21 degrees down there 24 degrees
over here it might have been a fluke that it did hit 24. so now I'm going to let this
stress test run for another 23 minutes maybe a little bit longer and let's see how hot it gets
all right after a little over half an hour of testing we can see the temperature is currently
at 62 degrees Celsius the hottest it should well just drop to 61 degrees Celsius and we are still
stressing aside from showing you this I can come over here and show you task manager and
show you every single core running at a hundred percent CPU utilization 100 percent eight cores 16
threads running at 3.8 or actually 4.9 gigahertz and she's incredibly cool 4.91 it just hit so we
just saw it hit 90 or 63 degrees there I'm at a little bit different situation than usual now
typically we're at 63 degrees Fahrenheit in the house but actually it's 69 degrees cooling down
to 63 degrees within the next two hours so we're a little bit hotter than usual and still that CPU
is nice and cool now with the system running at 62 degrees the latter series hit right now
is about 44 DB and that's also more about six inches away from the side panel now about six
inches away from the front of the case we've hit about 49 but typically we're around 47.
now at the top of the case just above the radiator 54 so far
starting to pick up a little bit more right now
getting 65
67
all right so I'm going to stop stressing the CPU now so we'll get into the 30s
so now we're going to go ahead and open up 3D mark
now the fans haven't started spinning up on the GPU yet
stress test
and one sec while I update this always at the worst time all right so fans are still off
now I'm going to hit run stress and I have the temperatures and everything up at the top left
there we go the fans kicked on
now this case keeps everything nice and cool and vertically it keeps it nice
and cool because it's so far away from the front panel now we'll come back in half an
hour so we've been stressing now for about 50 minutes an hour let's say and the noise level
is around 41 DB the hottest it's gotten is 53 degrees Celsius so it's incredibly cool inside
of this case stressing at a hundred percent along the front of this case
about 46 it's hit 47 DB so very quiet and then let's see what the temperature going in is
19 DB 20 or degrees sorry 20 degrees
nice and cool up there now even though we're not
stressing the CPU heat is still going to get sucked out of here
about 25
so 25 degrees at the max up here beautiful then the noise level
we hit 50
so right here
seems to be the loudest at about 50 DB that's still incredibly quiet
along the rear of the machine 45 DB
and so forth the loudest which isn't bad
30 degrees from here
from along the rear of the video card
49 has been the highest and let's see the temperature 28 31 32
33
4
35
so still all incredibly cool and quiet so helping keep the video card nice and cool and the overall
system nice and cool are the two front 160 millimeter fans because they are so large
they don't need to spend as much generating as much noise as smaller fans and so they allow
for more airflow within the case at a lower noise level that's pretty awesome now one of the other
things helping the system being nice and cool even with the card like this which generally
generates more heat because it's so close to the side panel this is almost three inches
from the side panel so you have plenty of room in here for air to come over here with those 160
millimeter fans blow over here and get sucked in and then exhausted vented out of here rising up
and then getting sucked out from the ceiling here and then also from the rear of the case
Lian Li did a great job with this case being that you can put in the card regular horizontal or you
can put it vertical and vertical works just fine if you watch the Assembly of this system you will
remember that this little screw over here used to look just like that one but it broke during the
installation partially my fault I was screwing it in the rear one but the screw broke off and
there is no third screw they didn't provide another one and me as a reviewer it's actually
incredibly difficult to get a replacement you as a customer you might be able to get one
pretty easily that little standoff screw is not made with the greatest material so just be very
gentle when you're screwing it into the bottom of the case if of course you're going for a vertical
video card now installing the Fractal Design Lumen s36 there was plenty of room over here
I can fit my fingers back here in between the fans and this heatsink on the motherboard so
there's plenty of room and I'll go ahead and put how many millimeters of space and what is the size
of this radiator which has been doing a great job as much as I've been stressing the system
one of the features I loved about this case is the fact that you can by removing these two screws you
can remove the roof of this case so that you can more easily attach a radiator or fans or
whatever you want to put up here I think that's a great idea mind you they're not the first but the
fact that they included it is awesome especially at this price point another thing I didn't like
with the placement of the video card is this is directly under the fan so getting to these
screws is incredibly difficult there's no way you can get a screwdriver in here so you have
to do it all by hand and it's incredibly tight to get anything in there another thing I love
about this case is the side panel now most cases have a side panel that goes from the very top to
the very bottom then you take off the whole door so first off in the back here there's only one
screw holding the side panel on if you unscrew that you'll notice the side panel comes off
and then down over here is the power supply shroud so everything's down here it's not an
entire door this bottom part is free so as we went over during the build this I/O is swappable when I
open the case up this was a solid side panel and the I/O was up here on the top of the case but
you're able to actually remove that front panel bring it down here and then bring the blank panel
right up here so they're interchangeable I think that's a great idea so coming around the back
a solid side panel we take off the back there is no screw there holding it in place
just these little Nubs here that would snap right into here this case does a great job
lending itself to Great Cable Management it has up here The Fan Hub and also the aRGB Hub so you
can connect six fans or six aRGB connections up there then over here two 2.5 inch trays for
either a 2.5 inch SSD or a mechanical drive then they have little Clips over here to allow you to
Route cables through here then grommets right up here rubber grommets over here to allow you to
slide cables from the bottom and back of the case through the front of the case over here then down
here we have plenty of space for a power supply some space to shove some cables in here and then
space for two 3.5 inch drives if we wanted to we can move these trays to right above here right
above the power supply shroud but it's a little crowded right now with that video card now one
part that can be considered kind of gimmicky but at the same time can be very nice for cable
management is the fact that when you buy this out of the box it's set up like this for ATX but if
you have an eatx motherboard you flip this around so that these grommets are over here so now you
have more room for cable management because your board is going to be longer this way so that's
a pretty cool idea as well so not bad right she can take just about any motherboard E-ATX, ATX,
matx, ITX, all those motherboards liquid cooling she can take up to a 360 millimeter which we put
up at the top the fans that it comes with are two 160 millimeter up at the front which blow
a tremendous amount of air and since the video card vertically is three inches from the glass the
heat goes straight up out of the heatsink and the fins and gets sucked out either from the rear of
the case or from the radiator up at the Top If you have liquid cooling or if you added any fans along
the top so this case can do just about everything now mind you we did run into some issues with
the little tiny screw for the vertical mounting mechanism to me that's just cheap material kind
of unlikely Lian Li to include cheap materials but it was just that screw I really did like the
way that they included the PWM and aRGB along the back the Hub I thought that was a great addition
more common now in cases than before but still I like the fact that they included it it could have
had a few more storage options but this is pretty standard as it is right now so I think they did a
good job the cable management aspect is perfect on this case and I'm a big fan of being able to
change the I/O if you don't like it at the top you can move it down to the bottom and vice versa
you're not stuck to either at the Top If it's on your desk you don't know where you're touching or
on the side if it's all the way at the bottom and you have to reach down so the fact that they put
that there is pretty awesome I'm really impressed by this case and it kind of gets rid of the stigma
for me that all vertical mounted video cards are a bad idea I again going back to that three inches
that's tremendous for cooling and then those two 160 millimeter fans I'm a big fan of those fans
and if you are looking for a vertically mounted video card this might be the perfect case for you
so let me know down below what you think about the Lian Li LANCOOL 216 RW case do you agree with my
review do you disagree and what parts did you disagree with I'd love to get your feedback on
that now if you did miss the video on where I built this system inside of this case go ahead
and click on this video here aside from that stay tuned for ThisBytesForYou, Iggy out see you guys
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