A Closer Look - Inside

To gain access to the chassis, you are simply required to remove a pair of thumb screws holding each side panel in place. As I mentioned before, the interior of the K58 is grey and while the overall layout and level of engineering may not seem like much at first sight, the chassis does feature a lot of very functional innovations. Turning the chassis over, we see a large hole under the mainboard tray along with clean, pre-routed cables


You are required to pull off the front of the case to gain access to the drive bay and the respective covers. Lancool has also added a seperate and removable dust filter for the front intake fan as well, so all spots where air enters the case are covered. This includes the 120 mm one in front - well done Lancool.


Turning our focus toward the rear of the K58, the bottom area is taken by the power supply bay. This one is screw-less as well and the PSU sits on top of rubber spacers to kill any vibration dead in their tracks. Above that are the previously mentioned eight mainboard expansion slots. Seven of them are held in place by incredibly high quality metal locks. This means that all four major areas of the case - external & internal drive bays, PSU area and mainboard expansion are completely screw-less. The top part of the chassis is filled by the 120 mm fan, while the ceiling may hold two additional 140 mm units. These are also missing in the K58 to keep overall costs down.


One of the screw-less systems can be found on two of the five external drive bays. These locking bars actually work very well, as we will see later on in the review. The area below the external bays is filled by four hard drive trays made of sturdy metal. You may only remove them after unscrewing a single thumb screw and raising the lock along the left edge of the trays. These are rubber mounted and do not require any screws as well.


The cables are nothing out of the ordinary at first sight, but Lancool has decided to supply a 3 pin wide power LED connector, while not using the center pin. This almost certainly means that you need to split this connector apart to use, unless you have installed a very old mainboard.