Hey would you look at that a case born to push limit funny thing how the Lancoool
II Mesh is launching in the same week just two days apart from the P50A from
Phanteks definitely not a coincidence or maybe not Adam I saved one peel for you
guys that's almost too smooth one more
so this my good people is the land called to mesh a very promising mesh
treatment upgrade of the original Lancool 2 which was fantastic feature wise but
lacked in the airflow Department so this supposed to remedy that make sure to
check out our original line code to review because the guts are basically
identical with a few minor modifications that I'll go over so let's review the
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so after several days of testing and over 20 different airflow configurations
that I tested inside the Lancool II Mesh I am genuinely excited about this
enclosure and really hope that mainly can deliver on the quantities because
this thing will 100% be in demand I don't want to oversell it but check this
out guys had $89 so the same price of the original lancool 2 but now it's so
much additional airflow available in both black and white the white model is
going to be $10 extra and there's also the performance Edition which is what I
have here includes two 140 mm load of fans at the front and a single 120 at
the back and there's also the a RGB model also an $89 price point so there
is no difference so you have to choose between going with the bling which
includes three one 2000 RGB fans in the front or going with
something more performance and muted looking I think it's a fantastic
direction for Lian Li need to take not to separate the RGB versus performance side
and keep it at the same price kam is making another appearance what do you
guys think now the match here is similar to what we saw with Phanteks P500A for
example but the holes here are slightly bigger at 1.5 millimeters versus 1
millimeter on the Phanteks enclosure so that's probably why the airflow
performance is better but I am concerned about dust accumulation particularly on
the interior the holes aren't large enough to catch like really fine
particles so that's something to kind of be concerned about and I totally
understand their decision not to include a dust filter behind the metal mesh
because that will significantly reduce airflow the metal mesh here is pretty
rigid it doesn't flex very nice and one of the reasons why I did so many airflow
tests is because the shroud door on the side is now perforated unlike being
totally solid on the original Lian Li told me that the perforation on side
helps with GPU cooling especially when you add additional fans on the PSU
shroud so we'll be testing that later as for the rest of the exterior features
everything is identical I love these swivel TG side panels on both sides we
do have a little magnets in the front and little pegs that kind of sit into
the frame so the glass panel doesn't vibrate or shake upon transport
you cannot secure the side panels fully but the magnets are pretty strong so
they latch in nicely you can remove the power supply doors there's four screws
on each side and they don't completely open fully so that if you do lift the
case they kind of maintain their shape on where they would lie on the table for
example the IO is up top with dual USB three is power reset switch a combo
audio jack and an optional type-c port if you buy the accessory and if this
accessory is not populated it kind of looks weird there's that something got
stuck in that little cutout since I have the performance model we do have a built
in fan controller and I wouldn't think that I would enjoy it that much but we
have low medium and high speeds plus a PWM control if you just plug this into
your motherboard the fan controller is at the back sitting on its own little
removable plate and all the fans here are PWM which is fantastic at this price
point and the fan controller can support up to six four
and fans now the unique thing about airflow in this enclosure outside of
having the metal mesh in the front that is completely unrestrictive you'll see
why in a second but I really appreciate their fan bracket at the front that is
pretty modular and the hope more companies try to sort of recreate the
same design it can support up to a 360 radiator but the cool thing about the
bracket is it has a lot of mobility within the frame so for example if
you're doing a push and pull setup you can mount the brackets like the inwards
to have the fans on the outside of the bracket have the radiator and more fans
you can also rotate the bracket which might make installation of fans easier
down the line if you're trying to remove something from the actual frame and
whole idea here is to give users the range of clearance between the frame and
between the power supply cut out and that ranges 55 millimeters all do up to
110 million years and as for the top we have a removable dust filter here pretty
standard with our usual configuration of fans that are both slightly inwards and
are offset from the motherboard and support up to 240 radiator as we move
inside one of the coolest features is the rotatable cable cover after removing
two screws you can rotate the bracket and have spacing for an e ATX
motherboard without compromising on cable routing and the whole ease of
assembly as you can see the power supply shroud is slightly different versus the
original and that is because we can install choices these in that spot or
remove those bracket and install dual 120mm fans and that is supposed to
significantly help with cooling of the GPU and that is why that perforated mesh
is so important and my only complaint about this entire design is the bottom
hard drive cage I do appreciate that it's it's on Rails so you can move it
slightly away from the power supply or away from the front to give you a bit
more clearance you can also buy this optional hotspot wall bracket at the
back which is great for this price point but the drive cage itself isn't meant to
be removable and the reason why you want to remove it is because first of all it
interferes without entire cut out at the front and number two the case is pretty
compact already so having the power supply all the way in its closest
position to the power supply leaves very little room for the power supply cables
I did forcefully remove the drive cage from the front just to clear out that
whole basement area but nearly made it clear that
the intent is for this drive cage to sit and live in the basement as for
additional storage we have Drive caddies on the right power supply door plus we
have two additional SSD caddies behind the motherboard tray and I really
appreciate this case for this $89 price point because of all the little panels
that are installed at the back to hide all your cables and make that whole
section look really clean which is why the right side panel is also glass the
only thing I do not appreciate are the thumb screws because the threading is
very short and it's making it really difficult to put them back together and
all the screws in the front as well we're extremely tight for me I almost
stripped a few screws but Lian Li made sure to double-check their quality
control and make sure that doesn't happen for retail units lastly there is
a power supply dust filter at the bottom and I think it's time for you to witness
the assembly sequence
after everything was complete it's a an extremely easy case to work in not just
because of the cable bar and how you can move it and the kind of cleanly hides
everything and it does not interfere with that USB 3 cable coming from the
side while the back of the motherboard is clean primarily because of all the
plates that you can cover all the cables with so now it's time to talk about the
airflow and this thing is absolutely impressive
alright so let's begin a stock configuration that - profile 72 and 72
fantastic temperature's going to medium fan profile surprised that didn't change
anything and going to low CPU and GPU both rise slightly in temperatures
removing the front panel altogether at - profile does drop our temperatures
slightly and adding a single fan on top of the power supply shroud had improved
our GPU temperatures but slightly rising CPU temperatures I'm guessing because
that he kind of gets carried from the GPU into the CPU area liam lee has
confirmed this result this happens on their end - I then shifted the front
bracket closer inwards away from the front panel and closer to my hardware
components and at - profile it actually increased our GPU temperature by a
single degree this could be a margin of error but one interesting thing here was
that the noise profile was slightly louder versus when the fan racket was
right against of the mesh and speaking of the noise profile keep things at
medium or low because otherwise it's quite loud the next thing I wanted to do
was swap out the r-tx 20 60 super for something harder like my GTX 1084 the
win because I really wanted to test if that power supply perforation on the
shroud actually did something so I redid all my testing and you can see again
that in the low stock configuration the GPU and CPU temperatures spiked up a
little bit just like with my r-tx 20 60 super I then blocked a shroud door and
got the pretty surprising result especially when the fan configuration is
running on low because I actually get cooler temperatures this way by the high
configuration remained at 70 and 70 I then added the shroud fan and on low
configuration this is impressive because the CPU temperature rose pretty
significantly but we did drop the GPU like but by 5 degrees while having the
fan configuration running on high plaster shroud fan dropped our GPU
temperature but this is already a pretty loud configuration and the final thing
to test was to keep the shroud fan there but blocked the side ventilation to see
if that would impact our temperatures it looks like what Lily said about having
ventilation on the side does actually help the GPU temperatures because by
blocking that ventilation our GPU rose versus when we have the shroud fan in
place and the side relation opened so the shroud fan helps with GPU cooling if
your GPU is really toasty and hot but it does reintroduce heat into the CPU loop
finally when we compare the Lanco to mesh versus all my other tests this is
the coolest case in my stack configuration this of course is at
maximum speed and the noise profile is quite similar to the really loud p500
a when the fans are running at full blast but lowering the fan controller to
medium gives us the same temperature but at a much reduced noise level so if
you've been looking for an airflow enclosure that isn't too large you know
components look totally fine and proportional inside the interior the
Lancoil II Mesh performance Edition is absolutely fantastic it doesn't have
much bling like the original but feature wise this is the case to beat in 2020
and we're giving it the Hardware Canucks Dam Good award Lian Li you done good
alright guys I'm Dimitri thanks much for watching let me know what you think of
the Alenko - mesh will this be your next case let me know in the comments check
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