I’m sure we’ve all seen cases with black exteriors, but have you seen cases with a completely black interior and a black tinted window? The NZXT Lexa S Crafted Series Black Steel Mid Tower Chassis gives you all of this and more! It includes four fans, two of which can be controlled by the built-in fan controller, 11 drive bays and some handy features everyone would enjoy. Read on further to see what else this case has to offer.
Features
• Immense Performance: 4 of 5 fans included ( Front 120mm fan, Top 140mm fan, Side 120MM LED fan, rear 120mm exhaust included ), fans rated at 43CFM, 23dB(A)
• Fan control: Determine noise and airflow based on your needs, dual intakes and dual exhausts are controlled independently
• Black on Black: Smoked clear window and a black interior gives the best combination of black on black.
• Meshed front panel allows for more airflow
• NZXT Solid State bracket allows for two SSD drives to be installed
• Wire Routing: Motherboard punched holes allows for quick CPU bracket removable and optimal wire routing.
• Turned HDD also helps with providing a cleaner look.
• Pre-drilled water cooling holes on the back plate
• High end graphics card support, extra space is especially designed to fit longer 10.5″ cards
• Side mounted USB, Audio, and E-SATA ports
• Mounting holes for dual radiator at the top
• Removable filter at the bottom PSU
• Rubber Grommet for wire routing gives a even sleeker look to the system
Specifications
MODEL: Lexa S SERIES
CASE TYPE: MID TOWER Black interior chassis
FRONT PANEL MATERIAL: Steel
DIMENSIONS (W x H x D): 196 X 480 X 528 mm
COOLING SYSTEM:
– FRONT, 1 x 120mm , 23db/42CFM (included)
– SIDE, 1 x 120mm LED fan@1200RPM, 23db/42CFM (included)
– TOP, 2 x 140/120mm ( 1 140mm included)
– REAR, 1 x 120mm, 23db/42CFM (included)
DRIVE BAYS: 11 DRIVE BAYS
– 4 EXTERNAL 5.25″ DRIVE BAYS
– 7 INTERNAL 3.5″ DRIVE BAYS
MATERIAL(S): Steel Construction
EXPANSION SLOTS: 7
POWER SUPPLY: 500 WATT PS2 ATX 12V 2.0 ( OPTIONAL )
WEIGHT: 7 KGS (W/O Power)
MOTHERBOARD SUPPORT: MOTHERBOARDS: ATX, MICRO-ATX, BABY AT
Packaging
The Lexa S comes packaged in a unique box. The front of the box shows the Lexa S appearing to be made in a futuristic assembly line. The back of the box goes into the features of the case along with some interior pictures.
The case is protected by two hard pieces of foam along with a bag to protect it from scratching and dust. The window on the side panel and the front bezel are also covered by plastic to protect it from scratching or getting fingerprints.
How are they not reliable?
The same can be said about platter HDDs.
Cotton towels work fine for me.
optical disks are practical for distributing the data not storing it. cheap yes, reliable no.
You aren't supposed to use alot of force which is where you problem prolly lies.
you need to really be careful with the way you handle and store optical media and still inevitably get bad batches of discs and having discs go bad prematurely. DVD-RAM has been the most reliable for me as far as optical media goes but too expensive for what you get so i just gave up on these discs. i would rather take my chance with another dying storage medium , the hard drive. less effort to maintain and i make clones of the drives just in case one goes bad.how many discs do you need to buy to equal a 1 terabyte drive? in the end its a hassle to switch out discs all the time, compared to having the data on the drive ready to go.
Yea, flash / ssd is def more reliable, don't have to worry about it getting scratched and not being able to read it.
For me, i notice microfiber cloths tend to scratch up my plastic / screens more.
It's actually quite easy to scratch these cases, using a cloth, be it microfiber or not, to remove fingerprints tends to scratch it up quite a bit.
How are they not reliable?
The same can be said about platter HDDs.
Cotton towels work fine for me.
You aren't supposed to use alot of force which is where you problem prolly lies.
you need to really be careful with the way you handle and store optical media and still inevitably get bad batches of discs and having discs go bad prematurely. DVD-RAM has been the most reliable for me as far as optical media goes but too expensive for what you get so i just gave up on these discs. i would rather take my chance with another dying storage medium , the hard drive. less effort to maintain and i make clones of the drives just in case one goes bad.how many discs do you need to buy to equal a 1 terabyte drive? in the end its a hassle to switch out discs all the time, compared to having the data on the drive ready to go.
gotta try that one.
true, also finding a place to store / organize all your dvds is quite difficult too,
they can get scratched?
We still haven't reached the usb 2.0 theoretical speeds.
mobos are being release now with usb 3.0
they should have put at least one slot where the dvd drive can come out without having to open the door.
but that's from the internals wearing it out, a dvd can be scratched much more easily, since the surface is exposed
i use a feather touch, it still does. I think the small fibers scratch it more.
optical disks are practical for distributing the data not storing it. cheap yes, reliable no.
gotta try that one.
true, also finding a place to store / organize all your dvds is quite difficult too,
they can get scratched?
We still haven't reached the usb 2.0 theoretical speeds.
mobos are being release now with usb 3.0
they should have put at least one slot where the dvd drive can come out without having to open the door.
but that's from the internals wearing it out, a dvd can be scratched much more easily, since the surface is exposed
i use a feather touch, it still does. I think the small fibers scratch it more.
Yea, flash / ssd is def more reliable, don't have to worry about it getting scratched and not being able to read it.
For me, i notice microfiber cloths tend to scratch up my plastic / screens more.
It's actually quite easy to scratch these cases, using a cloth, be it microfiber or not, to remove fingerprints tends to scratch it up quite a bit.
How are they not reliable?
The same can be said about platter HDDs.
Cotton towels work fine for me.
You aren't supposed to use alot of force which is where you problem prolly lies.
you need to really be careful with the way you handle and store optical media and still inevitably get bad batches of discs and having discs go bad prematurely. DVD-RAM has been the most reliable for me as far as optical media goes but too expensive for what you get so i just gave up on these discs. i would rather take my chance with another dying storage medium , the hard drive. less effort to maintain and i make clones of the drives just in case one goes bad.how many discs do you need to buy to equal a 1 terabyte drive? in the end its a hassle to switch out discs all the time, compared to having the data on the drive ready to go.
gotta try that one.
true, also finding a place to store / organize all your dvds is quite difficult too,
they can get scratched?
We still haven't reached the usb 2.0 theoretical speeds.
mobos are being release now with usb 3.0
they should have put at least one slot where the dvd drive can come out without having to open the door.
but that's from the internals wearing it out, a dvd can be scratched much more easily, since the surface is exposed
i use a feather touch, it still does. I think the small fibers scratch it more.
i was just wondering if this case can fit an hd 5870
Yes it can
relay because it said to support 10.5″ not 11″ cards. i wanted this case because of its fan price and style but if i cant use a 5870 then i have to find another case as good as this one except the fact is that there are no other cases that are this good for the same price