Conclusion

     The NZXT guardian case gives you some very aggressive looks, and fairly good functionality. The fit and finish is very good, and lacked any flaws as if their quality control actually mattered which is a good thing. There were some things that make this case a good buy, and some thing that kind of need some questioning. Last time I checked the price for this case was $99, which makes it a fairly good buy, although I question the use of non-BB fans, and the fact that only 2 were included with this case. Usually 2 fans on a case of this kind puts it in the under $75 range, regardless of the 400W PSU which our sample did not have. However what the Guardian does have is plain good looks, and a good quality tooless design. Looking around the web, I found the major flaw in the reviews of this case to be the lack of a removable motherboard tray. Well I have news for you removable motherboard tray lovers. A removable tray has a tendency to give you PSU an improper ground circuit which could end up costing you a lot of money in shipping perfectly good components that never needed to be RMA'ed in the first place. Basically what I'm getting at is that there is a reason 90% of the quality case manufactured today don't have removable trays. If NZXT threw is some half decent BB fans, and included the fans needed for the HD bay, I would give this case better marks, but until then I'll sit under he guard of this cases pretty neat "night rider" LED design in the form of a shot AVI which can be downloaded here.