Lian Li Lancool III Case Review: Build Quality, Thermals, & Cable Management

Sponsor: EVGA X570 Dark: This review looks at the Lian Li Lancool III PC case, a new high airflow design with a lot of mechanical gimmicks and features. The Lancool III sells for around $150 to $170, depending on whether it’s the RGB, white, or black model, and competes most directly with alternatives like the Corsair 5000D, Fractal Torrent (and Compact), Phanteks P500A, and others in our benchmarks and tests. The Lancool III is one of the most mechanically complex cases we’ve ever reviewed and, overall, it executes well. There are some fit and finish issues that we’ll talk about, and thermals are interesting, but overall, Lian Li is onto something with this one. Watch our case reviews playlist here: Grab our LIMITED EDITION Foil CyberSkeleton t-shirt on the GN store! Once these sell out, we will not make more! This helps us fund our testing: Like our content? Please consider becoming our Patron to support us: RELATED PRODUCTS [Affiliate Links] Lian Li Lancool III on Amazon: Corsair 5000D on Amazon: Phanteks P500A on Amazon: Lian Li Lancool II Mesh on Amazon: Lian Li Lancool 215 on Amazon: TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Insanely Complicated Case 01:15 - Lancool One, II, and III 02:52 - Quick Points on Airflow & Mesh 06:57 - Water Cooling Support & More Mechanical Issues 08:19 - Additional Fit & Finish Issues 10:42 - JUST YANK HARD 10:46 - Fit & Finish Continued 11:32 - Airflow, Fan Placement, & Magnets 12:50 - Patrick on Front I/O 14:47 - Small Attention to Detail 17:07 - Steve on Thermals & Noise 17:27 - CPU Thermals for Lancool III Case 18:51 - GPU Thermals & Best PC Cases for Airflow 19:40 - Gaming Thermals (GPU Load) in Lancool III 20:04 - Standardized Fan Thermals 20:39 - Noise Levels 21:07 - Noise-Normalized Thermals 21:45 - Conclusion & Alternatives 26:30 - Removing Bias & Steve’s vs. Patrick’s Thoughts ** Please like, comment, and subscribe for more! ** Links to Amazon and Newegg are typically monetized on our channel (affiliate links) and may return a commission of sales to us from the retailer. This is unrelated to the product manufacturer. Any advertisements or sponsorships are disclosed within the video (“this video is brought to you by“) and above the fold in the description. We do not ever produce paid content or “sponsored content“ (meaning that the content is our idea and is not funded externally aside from whatever ad placement is in the beginning) and we do not ever charge manufacturers for coverage. Follow us in these locations for more gaming and hardware updates: t: f: w: Host, Test Lead: Steve Burke Writing, Testing: Patrick Lathan Camera Work, Video Production: Andrew Coleman Additional Video Work: Mike Gaglione