Lian Li LANCOOL 207 PC Case Review
Thermal Performance
Lian Li LANCOOL 207 Cooling Performance
Thermal performance is an essential factor for any PC case. Your system may look great from the outside, but all of that is for nought if your PC has the internal temperature of an oven. Your PC case needs enough airflow for your components to remain cool under load and to prevent any form of thermal throttling. For our test, we used the following hardware using fixed fan speeds (so that only the case and its included fans can influence thermal performance).
Intel i9-9700K @4.8GHz at 1.2V
ASUS ROG Strix Z370-F Gaming @ 100% Current Capacity/ LL lvl16
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Black Edition @ 9V via Fan Speed Reducer
Nvidia GTX 980 Reference @ 60% Fixed Fan Speed
Corsair LP Vengeance LP (Grey) @ 3200MHz
Corsair MP500 M.2 NVMe SSD
Corsair RM550X Power Supply
The graph below showcases Delta temperatures with a controlled ambient temperature of 20 degrees Celsius.
1000 RPM Fan Test
Lian Li’s LANCOOL 207 is one of the better-performing cases in our graphs, especially when it comes to GPU cooling. This makes a lot of sense, given this case’s fan layout. This case pushes a lot of airflow directly at your graphics card. This makes the LANCOOL 207 a great case for PC gamers, especially those who use higher-wattage GPU models.
Note. that we added two fans to this case for testing. One is on the rear of the case, and the other is on the top. We expect most PC builders to add these fans, as at stock this case only has intake fans.
1500 RPM and Max RPM Fan Test
At higher fan speeds, we can see that the LANCOOL 207 continues to deliver strong cooling performance. Note that at 1900 RPM, this is the second-best case we have tested for GPU thermals. A strong result from Lian Li!
