Lian Li LANCOOL 216 PC Case Review

Lian Li Lancool 216 PC Case Review

Cooling Performance  

Thermal performance is an essential factor for any PC case. Your system may look fantastic and seem silent 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).

ASUS TUF Gaming GT501
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 Vengiance 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 Tests

When it comes to CPU cooling, Lian Li’s new 216 chassis is one of the best performing cases with our standardised test rig, competing favourably against some of the larger airflow-oriented cases that we have tested. The chassis does fall behind a little when it comes to GPU cooling, though it only remains a few degrees behind the best case that we have ever tested. Not a bad result for case that’s around £100.

Lian Li Lancool 216 PC Case Review
Lian Li Lancool 216 PC Case Review

Max RPM Fan Tests

With this case’s fans maxed out (around 1700 RPM), we see both CPU and GPU thermals drop by a few degrees. These drops are not game-changing when compared to our 1,000 RPM results, though it does show that this case does benefit from higher speed fans and higher levels of airflow. Not bad for a case that ships with three fans out of the box.

Lian Li Lancool 216 PC Case Review
Lian Li Lancool 216 PC Case Review