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today we are reviewing a very

mechanically complicated case this is

the liam lee lancole 3 it's 150 to 170

and it has a lot of

mechanical gimmicks or features

depending on how you look at them like

cable covers right here this one's

actually there we go

that one's magnetically secured this one

over here and then the doors that open

with a lever on the side instead of

something like say

a pull tab which would be much cheaper

but also much less interesting so we're

gonna be looking at this today comparing

it to other competing cases in the same

150 price class we'll be looking at

thermals noise and everything else in

between for an objective analysis of the

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description below so for the case today

pricing's pretty simple in that it just

goes up depending on whether it is rgb

or non-rgb and then there are white and

black models as well we have both of

them here today that we're going to look

at for whatever reason leon lee has

decided to solve one of our longest

standing complaints with the landcool

series they go back believe it or not as

far as a landcool one and it was

officially called the lancole one so the

only it was revealing its hand very

early that it was going to make a lot of

these the lancole wand lancole uh ii

led into a lancol2 mesh which was

largely created after criticism from our

review of the land quality non-mesh

which sucked thermally but was very

interesting otherwise and they made a

lot of improvements with it the mesh was

actually a pretty good case uh so the

thing that they solved with this we need

to go get the lancome 2 mesh to

demonstrate it was one of the mechanical

features of the case

so our case hallway

has a landfill right here

okay

we can go look at this

our biggest complaint for this case

which was otherwise very good was simply

that getting into the main compartment

where your computer is where you're

going to build the system

required

opening these bottom panels not a big

deal it's like one extra step

but it did seem a little bit superfluous

uh

and that's that's been solved now so

that's why

this exists

and uh now these can be opened

independently of the others now opening

this does bring me to

a couple points so

this is only a mesh case now they've

seated the fans very far back here which

is interesting because it increases the

surface area that the fans can pull air

through when it's smashed right up

against the mesh normally you lose some

of the performance there's a little bit

more of an effect from the impedance on

the fans as they try to pull air in

and you end up in a basically a pressure

situation as opposed to just more purely

a flow situation

and on the side here where they've gone

with mesh on both of these

sides

the one on

this side of the case is completely

unobstructed

and the one on the other side of the

case you could remove all these drive

mounts if you wanted but if you want all

the extra drive mounts it is not really

mesh it's kind of mesh and looks only uh

because you do end up obstructing a lot

of it but

yeah it's also on a side where the

airflow is not that critical because the

power supply is cooled from underneath

anyway as for the rest of the exterior

both of the main side panels are

transparent glass with cables behind the

motherboard tray almost entirely hidden

from view by the two metal covers that

you're seeing this is similar to the

lancole 2's arrangement but with one key

difference the covers of the lancole 2

could be screwed down while in the

landcall 3 they are only magnetic

whether or not you like the covers is a

matter of opinion

i actually don't mind them patrick

doesn't like them but they're almost

mandatory here because the side panel is

held on with magnets that will pop open

if the cables push outwards so that's

why they're there making the covers

magnetic as well makes them bad at their

main purpose which is holding cables in

place ideally with some force and the

force part doesn't apply here opening

the cable covers then kill management is

pretty good thanks to the size of the

case although installing a full set of

four three and a half inch drives would

change that by filling up the power

supply shroud liam lee has pre-installed

several extra long velcro straps which

we have mixed feelings on the left side

works well for keeping i o and rgb

cables tucked out of the way but the

length of the straps on the right side

is unhelpful the bar with cable cutouts

at the edge of the motherboard can be

adjusted back and forth which we found

actually necessary to get our video card

installed it'll depend on the card you

have though liam lee could have just

designed this bar in a way that didn't

need adjustment in the first place

though now the main benefit of this bar

the one down here

moving is really just that it can

support water cooling components like

pumps and reservoirs and you can move it

around slightly to adjust for them which

would maybe get you out of some trouble

if you

mismanaged how you were planning to

route your tubes and you needed maybe an

extra half an inch of slack or something

one way or the other but otherwise

that's that's really it it's that and

accommodating the gpu but again you kind

of circumvent the accommodating the gpu

problem if you just design the bar

differently but then you lose some of

the cool water cooling support and

features

for more mechanical stuff on the back

side here the two ssd sleds on the back

of the motherboard tray are spring

loaded here

so you can mount either with just the

spring or there's an optional thumb

screw that goes in to secure the ssd

like if you're worried about it during

transit or you're just nervous about

not securing it with anything

else

like that for example was was

sub-optimal for securing things being

completely open at all times

not great

but

but you can use the thumb screw probably

should

now these are the primary two and a half

inch mouse but there's a total of 12

mounting locations available or eight if

four three and a half inch drives are

installed the case ships with two hard

drive cages under the power supply

shroud one of which can be removed to

allow the other's position to be

adjusted and both cages can have an

additional drive sled mounted on top

both are included in the accessory kit

that mainly ships with this lanley is

not selling hot swap back plates this

time for the lancole 3 and that was a

feature that added maybe some value to

the lan coil 2's lower side panel doors

as for water cooling support the front

radiator mount is removable and

reversible as it is in earlier land cool

cases but there's now a spring-loaded

latch to hold the mount in place screws

can optionally be used as well the

handle is directly under the front i o

and we found it can get caught up in the

wires which may be another reason to

swap the i o to the bottom of the front

panel and that is something you can do

it's a supported feature to move the i o

around although if you move it to the

bottom of the front panel you might

restrict your clearance if you have a

longer usb key or something like that

the top rated amount isn't toolless but

it is still removable the quantity of

mounting points make it extremely

versatile but it also means that there's

only a five centimeter strip of fully

open space in the center of the mount

the case can mount 360 millimeter

radiators at the front and on top of the

power supply shroud mounting fans or

radiators here eliminates the use of the

bottom most motherboard expansion slots

and requires moving the shroud top to

its forward position reducing clearance

for the front mount although there's

still enough ventilation on the lower

side panels to make this a surprisingly

viable option we'll talk about that in

the thermal section later lee lee claims

that the top mount fits four 20

millimeter radiators but installing one

may make the top tray non-removable and

may require downsizing or removing the

rear exhaust fan the lancole 3 has

excellent radiator support overall but

we would suggest a 360 millimeter

maximum there are some other fit and

finish issues than the usability things

we've talked about so this isn't the

biggest deal in the world but we did

have one loose hinge on our review unit

you can fix this on your own

because

there's two screws back here it's just a

phillips head driver to fix that loose

hinge problem

it shouldn't ship that way

it's it's hard to dock too many points

because it's fixable but it's still sort

of a attention to detail or qc oversight

and on a review unit which is never

really a great sign now for other stuff

the front panel is

a little bit on the barbaric side for

it's removable so first to get it off we

have to open

everything up and once we've opened

everything up

the method chosen for removing it is

grab

and yank

nzxt would be proud here

if we can get nzxt's tweet on the screen

just yank hard

that was less bad than last time i did

it so that's removal of the front panel

it could be i guess the thing the thing

we were getting at with this

is it's not abnormal to remove a front

panel that way

but with a case that is this advanced

with all the different levers springs

and gadgets that it's added for all this

extra flair uh it probably will be

winning best mechanical design in our

awards show this year but even with all

that they haven't done anything to

advance the removal of the front panel

so

it's not something we normally pay

attention to but it really sticks out on

a case like this that's overhauled

everything else mechanically and with

how you interact with the case and that

brings us to the next fit and finish

issue which is that for this so this is

the reversible uh fan tray which is

actually really useful and it's

something we've liked been around for a

while on cases but this thing

it's by the way another spring-loaded

part of the design

is right here and we'll get a shot of

the inside of that as well but when we

remove it on

one of our two cases they have installed

some of the standoffs

or glorified washers if you will upside

down so on the white one you can see

that all of them have the sort of washer

side down against the frame so that's

two out of two here and then four out of

four that are installed that way and if

we go over to our other case

so on this one

you can see that the washers are

installed a little more haphazardly

where we've got them at

different orientations for each of the

washers so half of them are on one way

half are on the other way mechanically

in terms of how they actually work and

perform

it didn't really affect anything it all

works the same way it's just another

really small

qc or attention to detail issue where

they've changed it between the two cases

and between the eight screws

so none of those three things are major

issues it's just really small attention

to detail that's the kind of stuff we

look for

and

it does

lend itself to

a judgment when we get to the conclusion

on how much attention a manufacturer is

paying to the product overall gives us

an idea for their qc processes as well

as far as removing the front panel

there's several reasons for it one of

them is swapping the fans or removing

the lower side panels or just access in

general now the fans again are seated

further back in their stock position and

this not only helps the airflow like we

talked about earlier or at least in

theory should when we'll see in testing

but it also provides a more diffused

lighting look to get a wider spread of

that light and make it look less

concentrated on singular leds liam lee

has also taken steps to protect the

magnets in the case from chipping which

was a problem we saw in the original

lancol2 and complained about in the

lancol3 all magnets are inset and fixed

with screws so that none of them can

contact the surfaces they ultimately

stick to after removing a couple we have

a newfound respect for the process that

was required to thread these tiny metal

screws through the magnets the lower

side panels are fully ventilated with

mesh to provide that airflow path to the

fan mounts on top of the power splash

route this can benefit the gpu as well

although we'll look at that and the case

ships with one of the panels again

sealed off with that removable plate and

it fits three two and a half inch drives

okay so enough of my section for now

we're gonna throw it over to patrick to

talk about some of the leds and other

features on the case then we'll come

back to me for thermals and acoustic

analysis

let's start with the front i o these are

the rgb control buttons here we've got

the standard color and mode buttons if i

hit mode it cycles through

some of the built-in lighting modes

if i hit color it cycles through seven

big ten colors this is a combined audio

jack we would generally prefer to have

separate jacks for headphones and

microphone it's a little more flexible

but if you have a four pole headset this

will work in this port and you know

normal

headsets and mics will work in there as

well two usb type a ports these are

color matched to the rest of the case

and a usb type c port so if we pop open

the side of the case here

there are a total of

three

five volt three pin argb headers that

can be used to hook up additional items

this is obviously the rgb version of the

case the non-rgb version doesn't have

the control buttons on the front because

it doesn't have an rgb controller it

doesn't have these

extra headers here

it does however have a plate that mounts

right here

that you could put your own third-party

rgb controller on which is a nice touch

i kind of wish they included it with

this case as well but

you already have a baked end controller

there's really good attention to detail

throughout this case for example

leon lee here that has

put some extra effort in and put these

metal tabs on the side

and what that does

is when you install these slot covers

normally if you installed one of these

without something below it and then you

tried to

torque down a screw on top the slot

would rotate with the screw

all of the fans rgb and non-rgb have the

leon lee logo molded into the back most

of the cases steel in glass and plastic

but these front handles right here

are aluminum

uh you can't really tell in the white

case which is kind of a shame i think

it's maybe hard to anodize in this color

but on the black case it's brushed

anodized black aluminum some of the

features that you might not think about

like the uh the screws for the pcie

slots um

those are silver the usb ports those are

white

all of the

magnets and screws holding the magnets

are silver here and the black case

they're painted black

the rivets are silver here

black in the other case all of the

fittings here

these rubber grommets are gray here

they're black in the black case

so

you can see in the accessory kit

it's kind of ridiculous

everything is color matched except for

the

hard drive cage screws so unfortunately

all of the cool add-ons and tricks and

gimmicks that leon lee has packed in

here as well as the

steel construction and these thick

aluminum rails and these glass panels

make this a very heavy case empty

with the accessory kit and it's straight

out of the box it is

almost 15 kilograms 14.9

which is just over 30 pounds

we have not actually weighed it with the

system inside yet but

it's heavy enough so that when i pick it

up

i can actually feel

a little bit of flex in the feet of the

case

now the bottom of the

case

isn't unusually flexible but the case

itself is so heavy that

if you

lean it on its edge or move it sideways

a little bit you get this

disconcerting feeling that the bottom of

the case is moving

all right so that was about

15 kilograms empty

and full

20.25 kilograms

so

building a system in this case

you're going to want to build it

near where it's going to stay because i

would not want to carry this up the

stairs

all right that'll do it for my section

uh i'll throw it back to steve to cover

the thermal and noise performance of the

case on to thermals and noise our

testing focused on the lancole 3 rgb

which is theoretically not the highest

performance skew due to slightly lower

maxima rpm of the three front fans

versus the non-rgb model we ran our

standard test suite but added an extra

torture test using the non-rgb fans to

see if they make a difference baseline

for the cpu torture test with all stock

fans was 42 degrees celsius above

ambient and although swapping in the

non-rgb fans resulted in a rounded 43

degree average the actual difference is

well within margin of error all variants

of the lan coil 3 are equipped with four

140ml fans and with that kind of brute

force cooling the difference between

1600 rpm with the argb fans and 1800 rpm

for the unit fans is negligible at least

for the cpu removing the front panel had

no discernible effect on cpu temperature

the resistance offered by the mesh front

panel is again offset by the brute force

of the airflow compared to the mesh 2 at

44.6 degrees the lancol3 is a few

degrees better outside of error and

similarly it improves about 3 degrees

over the 215. all of these are a big

upgrade over the landcall 1 and the

pre-match lancole 2. the meshland cool 2

happened as a result of our review and

the results are closer to the new 3. the

lancol3 beats everything on this

comparative chart except for the fractal

torrent which includes the lancol2

meshes already above average 45 degree

result corsair's 5000d airflow is priced

similarly about 150

and runs at 48 degrees over ambient

allowing liam lee a meaningful lead the

cooler master half 500 also runs a few

degrees behind as does the once

chart-topping p-400a liam lee is well

positioned here in the same torture test

the gpu averaged 53 degrees celsius

above ambient which was also unaffected

by swapping in the non-rgb fans removing

the front panel did lower temperatures

down to 51 degrees but that's a minor

difference especially considering that

the cpu was unaffected the land coil 2

mesh ran at 49 degrees posting better

results than the lancole 3 with our test

configuration and the case layout the

215 was similar to the landcool 3 but

technically better comparatively the

lancol3's gpu cooling isn't bad but it

definitely doesn't match up to its cpu

cooling the half 500 ran at 54 degrees

so about the same as the lancol3 with

similarly priced 5000 d cases performing

lower compared to the lanco the torrent

the td500 and the p500a all outperform

the new competition average gpu

temperature and fire strike testing

rounds to 54 degrees celsius above

ambient but the difference from the

original torture test result is within

margin of error the removal of the cpu

as the heat source didn't improve gpu

temperatures indicating that the strong

front-to-back airflow is able to keep

pace with hot air exhausted by the

components the lane cool 2 showed

improved gpu thermals in this test with

a 47 degree average putting it further

in the lead with the p500a leading much

of the lancol3 lancol3's performance so

far can be explained by its four stock

fans so we can use this standardized fan

test to see how the chassis itself

stacks up against other lancoles the

lancol3 purely as a chassis ends up at

43 degrees and right alongside the 215

and the lancol2 mesh this shows that the

fan count and type or placement are

affecting the performance between these

more than the case design itself the

torrent compact remains a chart leader

for standard results but leon lee is

right near the top and not far from its

closest competitor and of course you'd

use something like the normal torrent

with its included fans with all four

cases set to max speed and the rgb case

variant we measured a noise level of

48.7 dba putting it alongside fractal's

torrent sku as one of the loudest cases

we've tested reducing the noise level to

our 36 dba threshold required setting

fan speeds to about 38 in bios and we

control the cpu and gpu for this this is

a more extreme reduction than usual with

a resulting logged rpm of approximately

1000 for each fan these fans can run

fast and loud it's worth building a

custom fan curve with lower speed

settings when you're below critical

temperatures the performance difference

between the maximum 16 to 1800 speed and

those used in our normalized testing at

1 000

is barely anything average cpu

temperature climbs from 42 to 45 degrees

celsius above ambience and average gpu

temperature climbs from 53 to 54. it's

absolutely worth the reduction and noise

for this and it proves that the landcool

3 can perform well even without forcing

air through at max speed the lancol3

shines in comparison to other cases on

the noise normalized chart although the

gpu temperature still isn't as

impressive as the cpu so wrapping up

then first of all on the

nice side on the positive side lanley

has actually done a very good job by

including all kinds of mechanically

complex elements you got the doors the

lower doors they really like doors on

this case there's let's see there's the

outside door there's two inside doors

and there's a bottom door so we're up to

four

doors

for

one side i couldn't make i couldn't use

any more rhyming words uh same thing on

this side for the most part than the two

cable covered doors this is mechanically

interesting as well where it's got its

own spring-loaded mechanism in here

that uh pushes in to actuate this spring

on the inside so there's a lot going on

and laylee gets credit from us

for executing all of that in a way where

nothing has failed so that's good to see

there were a couple fit and finished

problems we talked about removal of the

front panel is not

impressive it's not

different from what we normally see and

that's sort of the problem with this one

but not really a big deal

thermally it did great acoustics were

about

what we would expect for this case

and that leaves us with things like

pricing and competition so

and concerns i guess we'll start with

concerns our main concern with this is

really just in some of the mechanisms

where it's thrown case there's multiple

angles where with the front panels not

on it okay let's try this again

the main thing we're concerned about is

with the door opening mechanism where

right now it works really well but all

of this all the stuff we're talking

about even though it's really cool and

it works well today we're worried about

how these all require a pretty tight

tolerance for everything to work

smoothly and with multiple

either years of use or lots of usage

cycles so you only go through so many

for a review to be fair you only open it

so many times when you own it too but

with enough cycles we are a little

concerned about something breaking or

with the alignment of the panels being

just off enough that it no longer meets

those tight requirements and you might

get just a less than desirable

experience with it so that's one of our

concerns long term today it all works

great though and the way this works is

really simple where you just have a this

component that punches a lever in there

that breaks the magnetic bond

for the panel it's pretty simple so

even though we don't know how magnets

work still today

we have people researching this right

now by the way they've been working on

it for years let's just say with the

magnet research i wouldn't title my

video am i wasting my money i would

title my video i am wasting my money so

we're all on the same page with the

magnet research so anyway that's the

downside to think about competition uh

other cases in the same price class

historically at least fantax p 500a

it's a great performer but it's dated

and it feels it the p400a especially p

500 p 400a are similar in in many ways

but uh the p500a is the newer and more

expensive of the two and um

we think that compared to this it feels

dated

another one will be the corsair 5000d or

the 4000 d on the much cheaper side and

those are good cases the 5000d is a

great competitor to this one is much

simpler and how it physically works

and it does well thermally for the 5000d

airflow but the landcall 3 outperforms

it in most of our testing so even there

this has an advantage uh other options

something like the cooler master h500

the new version of the half 500 whatever

it was called that came out recently

following the much cheaper previous one

would technically be a competitor but we

couldn't really recommend it at the

price point when it launched and we

certainly don't again something that

cost similarly and is much more

interesting and better you can always go

cheaper too and check out something like

the fractal pop air which we actually

liked a lot and was in the 90 to 100

range the fractal torrent on the other

end closer to 200 190 200 is a

personally

uh subjectively i think a step up an

overall quality um and feel it drops all

of the sort of mechanical gimmicks and

elements however you want to look at

them and just focuses on one thing which

is lots of air volume and it works well

the torrent compact is in there as well

so those are your options to look at for

competition we think this case

overall does well thermally and we have

a few concerns for longevity of some of

the stuff in here

that's normally the trade-off for things

that are different and unique and

bordering on gimmicks but it does work

well right now today

last bit i want to throw in

so

this is one of the few cases where

patrick and i didn't fully agree on our

viewpoint on it throughout the process

until the end where

when i saw it from the beginning i was

like that's pretty nice case looks good

i hadn't tested it or worked with it yet

but it was on the bench and um i thought

it looked pretty good he was like i'm

not so hot on this case and as he

continued working on it that turned into

i don't like this case

and then we got to the end and he said

it's starting to grow on me and here's

where things changed when we review

cases and most products we try to

isolate ourselves from the price of the

product until the last moment when we're

making judgments on value because that

helps us remove bias from the testing

and the writing process about things

like the features and

the thermal or acoustic performance so

we can look at those in a vacuum then we

add the price back in it's like uh

you're you're

baking a cake and you need to sprinkle

in a pinch of

price

i don't know anyway that's what we do

without the cake part there should be

cake but uh

when we got to the end of it

patrick had worked on this thing the

whole time

where we were both estimating this to be

in the 250 price class

thinking that that would be very high

but appropriate for something with this

many things strapped to it to say look

shiny and at 150 to 170 it seems

actually pretty good it's competitive so

i would then take all that and put us as

relatively

positive

ish

the ish or asterisk is um

that we've still got some concerns long

term for it but they did pretty well

overall so that's it for this one thanks

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