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A while ago, we took a look at the Bolt 3 from Digital Storm, a boutique-built

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gaming PC that caught the eyes of a lot of enthusiasts for its striking good

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looks. But as attractive as it was, we know that many of you swear by building

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your own rigs exclusively, like I do.

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So, today we're taking a look at the slightly bigger brother to the case from

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the Bolt 3, the Leon Lee PC06S, which

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supports up to microATX instead of just miniITX. It's available on its own, so

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you can fill it with whatever goodies you like without paying a premium to

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have it pre-built. So, what's it like to assemble a PC inside of it? Let's dive

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out the new Kiwi strawberry flavor at the link below. Leon Lee has been famous

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for making aluminum PC cases with interesting looks. Anyone remember the

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train case? Yeah, that's kind of what they're known for. The PC06s is no

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exception. Not only do you get a completely aluminum body, but a side

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panel made of actual tempered glass. Beautiful. No plastic or acrylic, none

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of that stuff. This makes your components look downright dramatic,

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especially if you throw some nice lighting into your case. If you think

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its beauty is a thing to behold, you can display your work of art on the wall.

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The PCO 6S is wall mountable. So, that's pretty cool. But if you do just want it

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to be on your freaking desk, it can be oriented in either horizontal or

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vertical positions on your desk with the use of the stand if you want it to be in

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the vertical position. Let's go ahead and start our tour of the case's

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exterior. On the front, you have the power switch, but interestingly, no

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reset button. Moving on, you have headphone and microphone jacks and four

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USB 3.0 ports, which is pretty sick. You

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will need a pair of USB 3.0 headers on your motherboard to get all of these

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ports running at full speed. But because many motherboards only have a single USB

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3.0 header, they have included a USB 2.0

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adapter. You just won't get full speed from that. You also get a slim optical

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drive if you're into that sort of thing and a mesh grill that shows off your

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power supply of all things. More on that later. Moving to the top, there's more

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venting with a filter for the three pre-installed 120 mm sleeve bearing

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fans. You can also mount a radiator up here as well for additional cooling.

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Another note is that the entire top of the case is actually removable and

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unscrews and comes off, which you'll need to do when building the computer.

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The left side panel is just that large piece of tempered glass that shows off

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your internals. Since the case is quite thin, you won't be able to fit a tower

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style cooler in here, but some lower profile coolers will fit in just fine

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with the case's 85 mm of vertical tolerance. The right side panel is held

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on by four thumb screws and features a filtered fan mount that can hold either

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a 120 mm or 140 mm fan. Just mind your

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cable management if you use it as your fan blades might get very close to

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cables behind the motherboard tray. Our case doesn't seem to have come with the

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proper thumb screws for the glass side panel. Although I'm not surprised as

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this review was massively delayed and we actually received this when it was still

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a pre-production sample. So I can't really blame them for that. The back has

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an interesting design where your motherboard and expansion port IO isn't

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exactly flush with the outer part of the case, but is rather recessed a couple of

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inches. There's also more venting and four PCI Express brackets. The bottom of

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the case, unlike more conventional designs that have venting of some sort

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for the power supply, is completely smooth. Now, let's have a look at the

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inside of the case where things get very interesting. The PC06S is a microATX

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case, but we used a miniITX motherboard for our build since we unfortunately

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didn't have any microATX boards on hand, which is actually part of the reason why

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this video was so delayed. I wanted to hopefully get a microATX board, but we

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just still never got one. Anyways, getting all the parts screwed in wasn't

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too bad, but with beauty often comes tight tolerances. So, as an additional

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note, screwing some things in was easier with a couple extra hands. and doing

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this as a twoperson build might be genuinely helpful. I would also

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recommend to install the graphics card first before the motherboard. Now, it's

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a little bit backwards, but the idea is once the motherboard is in, especially

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with its heat sink on, it can kind of get in the way of installing the

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graphics card, which is below it. So, if you install the graphics card first,

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screw it in, get the PCI riser card out of the way, install the motherboard, and

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then plug in the riser card, everything just kind of works. Speaking of the

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graphics card, one of the most unique things about this case is that the

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graphics card is mounted vertically so you can show it off in all of its

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freaking glory. It sits right near the bottom of the case and connects to your

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motherboard with a beautifully sleeved and pre-installed PCI Express riser

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cable that I previously mentioned. The effect this produces is super awesome,

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especially if you really want to make an aesthetic statement with your case. The

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power supply is suspended in the upper right portion of the case. Since you

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can't access your power supply at all from the outside of the case, what you

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have to do is instead run the power cable through a hole on the back and

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then through the back of the case and then up to the power supply. It's not a

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huge deal, but yeah, it goes in back here. This really allows you to show off

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your PSU. not something that's super common, especially with basement riddled

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cases these days, but it also makes things a little bit cleaner looking at

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the back. You also won't be able to access your power supplies onoff switch

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as a note, however, so just be aware of that. There's also a removable cage for

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your hard drives and SSDs in the bottom right, as well as an extra bracket

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behind the motherboard tray that can mount up to three SSDs or two full-size

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hard drives. Literally nothing in this case, except for a few thumb screws, is

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toolless. Everything is held in with a rather large number of screws. The

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owner's manual even indicates the case uses no less than 11 different types of

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screws, which aren't always easy to tell

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apart. I suggest using some magnetic parts trays of some sort or

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organizational system to keep things split up and sorted. On the flip side

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though, this results in a very sturdy final product when all is said and done,

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which I know definitely works for some people who tend to enjoy the experience

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of building a computer and the end result instead of just rushing through

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it, picking up their screwdriver a minimal amount of times. This fits in

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with uh what is, as far as I can tell, Leon Lee's general philosophy of making

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things strong and stable, even if it

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results in a longer, more tedious process. The case's cable management

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situations somewhat reflects this idea as well. There are quite a few cable

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management holes cut out in rather sensible places. Although I would have

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liked to have seen some like black rubber grommets in order to make things

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tidier, especially as some of the cutouts tend to be large and show off a

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bit of the wiring. But theoretically with very clean wiring, this will

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actually look very nice. And instead of having rubber grommet little leaflets

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going all over the place, it's just a nice clean passound, which is probably

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what I'm expecting they're going for. There also aren't any loops built into

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the chassis on the back, though Leon Lee did include a few plastic adhesive 3M

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loops and zip ties, allowing you to use what you need and no more than that,

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making it take a little bit more time, but allowing it to be more or less

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perfect. So, fitting in with that mantra. So, conclusion time. This isn't

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the easiest case to build in, but it isn't trying to be either. If you like

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the experience of building a computer, feeling at home surrounded by screws,

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aluminum, and tempered glass, and want a case to show off a relatively small

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system in in a relatively legendary way,

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this may be the case for you. as long as your wallet is equally as legendary.

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Tempered glass and aluminum aren't cheap. And neither is this case at $360

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US, which from a Canadian perspective is closer to

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the PC08, which is maybe possibly going

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to become my case. I don't really know, but I used it in the compensator build,

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which there will be a V2 of, but Lionus is making it kind of difficult to make a

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compensator build, which is supposed to be an overbuilt computer, when he just

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goes around building like eight and $9,000 or no, he built a $30,000

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computer, then he got an $8,000 chassis. Like, dude, what am I supposed to do?

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