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NZXT's First Case: The 2003 Guardian

2016-10-14
we stumbled on a piece of kaze history this is mm redesigned NZXT guardian just for sort of her reference point that's the phantom next to it design much later so this is the Guardian this case has a included top mounted 400 watt power supply which actually now with TDP being lower it is a good amount of wattage and for fan spec it's all I think 80 millimeters so 80 millimeter on the side and then two in the back and a weird sort of purple thin that mounts to the back of the case not really sure what it does or if it's effective but that was how they were mounted back in the day and if you look at the purple colors in this case the Guardian it does kind of look like the purple that NZXT has just switched to so kind of an interesting side note there for things that you might not know the guardian is actually signed on the inside let me see if I can show this off so this is the front panel obviously you can kind of remove it like that and it's got Johnny the CEOs signature inside back before NZXT was the force that it is today so that sign of David has 2003 and then internally this particular model despite what it looks like did pass quality control back in 2005 but it's been a few years since then so we have to be careful with it the front has this super awesome reflective I guess like 10 or aluminum-coated into something shiny for I guess and I only need to light off of and then there's these hidden trap doors for your two USB ports I don't know if that's maybe USB one maybe two and then 23.5 over here so that's the Guardian I'm not gonna close that because a little stuck it's an old case it's I guess the the main point that NZXT made with this case the statement that NZXT made when it was mostly just Johnny kind of running things is that it had a side window so that was kind of new and then it wasn't beige also new an antic is another company to look at in that phase of kind of revolutionising the case market antic I believe from the top my head was the first company to do a cardboard box for a case that wasn't just brown so there's two things you didn't know about the case market when it was older and check back soon for more and EXT coverage because we have stuff coming out pretty shortly and some of that will include the air RGB fans that we've already talked about thanks for watching as always patreon like the personal video subscribe for more I'll see you all next time
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