Assembly

Installing the motherboard is straightforward using the pre-installed spacers and securing the board with screws. Looking at the rear of the BTF board, you can see all the connectors are accessible. For this type of board, you will want to remove the HDD cage in advance as well. Once the board is in place, it is a good next step to tackle the cables and clean things up before continuing. We actually had to spend more time than usual and utilize almost every hook available in the process. This is also the time you will want to install the three rubber grommets on the main cable routing openings.


Adding a GPU is just as easy and due to the spacious interior of the Light Base 600 LX, won't be an issue, regardless of which pixel pusher you have in mind. Adding the GPU support bracket is a little bit tricky as you have to either measure or guesstimate where your GPU will end up, or install it after your pixel pusher is in place.


Installing the PSU is easy but is a tight fit as be quiet! has placed foam pads around the bay, which naturally provide high friction. We did not even install the bracket at the top, as there was no need. With 200 mm in clearance you can pick from the vast majority of units on the market, so finding the right one for your build should be no issue.


Before you can install that one 3.5" drive, you to pop in those rubber rings first. Once in place, the drive is attached using special screws, then the cage can be put back into the chassis underneath the PSU bay. As this will block access to your BTF connectors and the PCB on the floor of the chassis, you will want to connect all those cables before this assembly step.


Adding the 360 mm AIO is easy with plenty of room to find the perfect spot along the ceiling. While we did not attempt to use the hooks for zip ties, the Light Base 600 LX does have well-placed openings that all but eliminate any visible cable mess anyway.


Just like the 3.5" drive, you have to prep the 2.5" mounting plate first by popping in the rubber rings. While are only installing a single drive, we went ahead and popped all eight of the rubber elements in anyway. To secure the drive, you do not need any tools, as you can screw in the pin screws easily with your fingers and then push them into the rubber stand-offs which hold it very securely.


With everything installed, the interior of the be quiet! Light Base 600 LX looks spotless. In the white variant, you will see the wires from the side intake fans bridge the gap the cable management holes, but since those are white as well, it should still look great. In the rear, it took quite a bit of effort to secure all the cables. We ended up connecting the rear fan to the PCB at the top and the three side units to the one on the floor in anticipation of the cables from the AIO in the ceiling. Having learned from the assembly of the Light Base 900 DX, we secured all small cables first, and then installed the PSU, so there was just that one CPU power wire to deal with at that point in the assembly process. With the 2.5" cover closed, you won't see much of the mess, which also means that putting the side panel on will be easy, even with a lot of wiring hidden away.

Finished Looks

Turning the system on, you are greeted by four very nicely diffused LED strips. The be quiet! Light Base 600 LX sports a massive 1.3 meters of LED strips, with 77 LEDs in total. The implementation means that it seamlessly animates across the three sides of the chassis, which looks fantastic. A white power LED also lights up at the center of the square power button. Last but certainly not least, both the be quiet! logos are also nicely backlit in white on the top and bottom (or sides, depending on your setup).


Thanks to the clear glass panels, you can easily see all your hardware from the front as well as side. While you can't see it easily, due to the all black interior, the grommets work extremely well to separate the interior from the space behind the motherboard visually, keeping this angle of view nice and clean as well. In the rear, everything is where you would expect to see it. be quiet! could have added some external hooks as a small extra to allow for exterior cable management by simply punching a few hooks into some unused parts of the case as well.


As mentioned previously, you can flip the case over to make the board stand on its head, and as such have the GPU with its fans facing up. For this setup, you may find a way to install your cooling in the ceiling for best possible performance, but we left our AIO where it was originally. The third possibility is to move the feet onto the metal side panel and place the system on its side. No matter what you pick, all three options work extremely well and require no compromises at all.

On top of all that, the controller allows you to cycle through several single color animations on top of the rainbow one you see above. Besides those, you can pick from seven solid color options. The total number of settings isn't as diverse as some other built-in controllers, but you can always opt for motherboard control if you want to play with these LEDs. be quiet! ships the case on the solid orange color setting out of the box, their brand color, which is quite the attention to detail.