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Lancool Metal Boned K12

By Aloysius Low - 27 Oct 2008

Inside Peeks - The Interior

Inside Peeks - The Interior

Diving straight into the SECC chassis reveals a slightly cramped space that may be a bit tedious to work with. Thankfully, the K12 comes with a removable motherboard tray, so you don't accidentally injure your tender fingers when installing the components. Speaking of which, you would have probably noticed the audio dampening padding on the side panels on the previous page, and while they are a nice touch for the K12, the padding doesn't actually leave a lot of room for routing your cables behind the tray.

Also, power cables tend to be somewhat chunky (depending on the PSU you use) but we found ourselves quite tight on space using our non-modular test PSU. Furthermore, trying to close the panel became a trial of our patience and strength as the panel's padding got in the way of closing the chassis. While we do like the idea of having sound dampening panels for the casing, in this situation, it really ends up being a case of "good idea, bad execution" that doesn't reflect well on the K12.

There's really not too much space to work with inside the K12. There are some options to route the cables behind and we'll take a look at those later.

Seen here is the 120mm rear fan of the K12. There's another 120mm fan located in front of the casing directly in front of the HDD cage.

Moving downwards, the 7 expansion slots seen here use a smaller screw that's similar to those found on a cheaper casing.

Installing the PSU was a cake walk. Slide it into the slot provided and then screw it in place. There's also a hole located nearby to route your power cables behind.

The HDD cage is similar to those found in Lian Li cases. It might also be worth nothing that the cage is made from aluminum and not steel.

The back of the removable motherboard tray features clips to hold those messy cables in place!

We tried clipping some of the PSU cables to the back and found that we couldn't quite close the panel due to the sound dampening material on the panel.

Due to the lack of space on the back of the motherboard tray, routing the cables behind can be a problem, and depending on what your preferences are, things may turn slightly messy...

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