The lid is equipped with a magnetic dust filter, the dust filter under the power supply is in a slot. They may be 200mm in diameter, but they’re mounted on the front of a chassis that was built for 120/140mm fans, so that easily a third of each fan’s surface is blocked by steel. This fell only slightly down to 44 degrees with the front panel removed entirely, indicating that Lian Li has done a good job of pairing the large intake fans with a front panel that doesn’t restrict them, although the backing chassis does. That is a really good strategy for them as a company, and they have managed to top charts when it comes to temperatures with the 215, but like I said I was underwhelmed by this case as a user. With plenty of space for high-performance hardware configurations built-in, the LANCOOL 215 supports motherboards up to E-ATX.

Moving inside and this is a really basic interior, but both ATX and E-ATX motherboards are supported which is great.Esse é um dos melhores gabinetes do mundo em ventilação e silêncio que já vem com fans de qualidade e suficientes, fazendo voce economizar em fans (algo que encareceu bastante e foi removido de muitos gabinetes, assim como aconteceu com as fontes no passado). Great case with good features, my only gripe is that the included fan hub max's out the fan speed with no option to control it from motherboard, just plugged the fans into the motherboard to solve the issue. At this point I could already tell that trying to make the cable routing look tidy was going to be an adventure. By the way, you will notice a difference with the retail fans as they will have a much smaller sticker. This is still a relatively new test, so we don’t have cases as old as Cooler Master’s H500 Mesh included on this chart--we’d expect it to do very well here.

Also check out eTeknix YouTube, where you'll find our latest video reviews, event coverage and features in 4K! During the build for the photos, I completely removed this hub and connected the fans and ARGB to the motherboard and let it take care of fan speed and lighting control.Beyond the oh-so-shiny tempered glass, it’s clear that this case is built to a budget from a materials standpoint, but who cares? At the top of the chassis you’ll find a pair of USB ports, a mic-headphone combo jack, power and reset switches and a button that switches lighting modes – though the button didn’t work for us.

The LanCool 215 also supports up to E-ATX motherboards, unlike the majority of budget enclosure in this size range. The bling is appreciated as the two 200mm fans are ARGB and they connect to their own hub at the back at the case. Users might be able to get some use out of the mounting points for attaching things other than fans, but there just isn’t enough access to air to make them useful as intake slots. PCPartPicker may receive compensation for purchases made at participating retailers linked on this site.For the first, we removed the top filter and positioned the fan as top exhaust in the rearmost slot. The fact that there’s no separate filter behind the front panel’s mesh surface means that the front panel will rarely need to be removed for cleaning.

The lower fan is somewhat less obstructed, but still has a lot more metal impeding airflow than it should. The top of the case is 6cm above the top edge of the motherboard, which is the effective limit for combined radiator and fan thickness--Lian Li’s spec sheet claims a conservative 55mm. There is certainly room in the top for a 280mm AIO, and a 360mm AIO could fit in the front provided the tubing were long enough.

We’ll cover the efficacy of the intake fans in the thermal section later on, but the size of the fans is decorative. Therefore, we mostly limited ourselves to our standard set of tests, and two additional tests with a 120mm ID-COOLING fan turned down to approximately 1200RPM.