NZXT MYSTERY CASE - CES 2016
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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NZXT brought us to Exotics Racing Las Vegas why why does that make any sense
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this case it doesn't have a name it doesn't have a price point um but that
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part of it was designed after a car a nice car that's why on the top of the
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case you'll see a little bit of a divot um personally that's all I can find in
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terms of why it looks like a car but there's some other cool things about it
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as well all of the panels are curved steel they're saying that this is the
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first time this has happened with a computer case I don't know of any other
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ones that have curved steel I know some ones that have curved plastic so they
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may be right that kind of a window not really a window cuz it's solid black
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will eventually be either a clear window a tinted window or no window at all
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depending on what model you get the crazy NZXT deck all over it that makes
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it look like a new car announcement uh will be removed on the model that you
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buy and it will be a very solid color and they're also going to be launching
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in a potential matte white look which could be pretty cool the front and right
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hand side of the case are fairly self-explanatory the bottom has two
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bowed legs with some rubber feet on it to help it so it not slide around your
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table the back of the case is fairly self-explanatory again but we learned
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some information here again enxt told us basically nothing but you can see it's
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probably an mitx board with a standard ATX power supply peering in through the
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back I learned a few things that I can make as assumptions but one disclaimer I
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have to put here is one of the reasons why they didn't show us the inside of the case is all of this is subject to
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change it did look like there was a basement it did look like there was two
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140 mm fans in the front and maybe
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mounting holes for 140 or 120 in the top
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I definitely saw mounting holes for 14 40 and 120 but no fans up there and in
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the back there was mounting holes and a fan which was 120 mm also on the back I
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see a little switch that leads right to a circuit board which I'm going to
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assume is for maybe a mini Hue
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controller so you can control lighting inside the case although I'm not
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entirely sure that could also be for a fan controller but I don't it's just
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click in or click out I'm not sure we'll have to see once they actually announce
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it on January 26 just as a note for you
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guys also so I think that I saw some header cables for fans just laying
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inside the case meaning that they probably have some version of a grid I
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wouldn't be that surprised if they included other things that they've made
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within this case jumping back to the outside there's a removable fan filter
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for the power supply just in case you want it to be intaking from the bottom
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up on top of the case there's two USB 3.0 ports a power button on the left
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hand side and two audio jacks 3.5 mm
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ones for headphone and microphone just ahead of those headphone and mic
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microphone jacks there is also a little bit of a covered part which is probably
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going to be impossible to really pick up in the fancy b-roll here but there is
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probably going to be a little activity light there whatever they decide to call
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this thing it's fairly interesting it's not the standard take that we've been
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seeing lately for an ITX case traditionally with ITX cases we've been
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getting smaller and smaller this one actually takes it up a notch is that a
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good thing I don't know I see a lot of people these days going for ITX because
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they don't need any more that and it's totally fine for everything that they
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need because there's no overclocking differences or anything else this seems to be an interesting take on an ITX case
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I'm definitely going to have to see it more properly Hands-On in the office
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when I can actually look at the inside of it but just by looking at its size it
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could maybe be a little bit smaller especially because it doesn't have any OD slots but that could be a stylistic
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thing for you people lately are going for ITX systems not necessarily just
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because they're small but because they don't need any more than one expansion
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slot so we'll have to see what people do with it it's an interesting case
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nonetheless and Z xt's take on an ITX case is actually kind of interesting
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lately what we've been seeing in this department is just smaller and smaller and smaller and cram everything in as
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small as a space you can and hopefully it can cool itself uh but the cooling on
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this guy is supposed to be comparable to some of their other much larger cases
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and if you're someone who's going for an ITX system just cuz you don't need more
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than one expansion card you might still want a big nice window and a fancy
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looking case and hey maybe that's applicable we'll have to see on the 26
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