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 K62 is black 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.


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.


Turning our focus toward the rear of the K62, 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 afore 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, but above that are the two 140 mm ceiling fans. These are held in place by thin metal bars to avoid any obstruction to the airflow. All the fans in the K62 come with mainboard headers. It would have been a nice touch to see four Molex adapters instead of the one lonely piece included.


To aid in cable management Lancool has added various holes in the mainboard tray and has also placed a plastic contraption on the floor of the Dragonlord. This should make securing all the excess PSU cables a much easier task. Laying the chassis down on its side also reveals another very useful feature: a dust filter below the power supply air vent right next to the slightly dusty rubber feet of the case.


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 - well done Lancool.


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.