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IN WIN – Dragon Rider Full Tower Case

dragon-rider025 A close up view of the mesh covering the air intake of the rubberized power supply mount. While the mesh isn’t significant its a nice step that can help keep pet hair or other large particles from getting into your power supply and killing your awesome rig. You can also see on the top left the clips that allow you secure your PCI cards, I like how IN WIN isn’t playing around with build comforts.
Top I/O panel with its plethora of ports. I like that IN WIN color coded the USB 2 and 3 ports, sadly we have seen both motherboard manufactures and case manufacturers fail to do this.
All of the ports are nicely spaced and a solid feel when inserting drives and cables. This solidness extends to both the power and reset buttons.
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One of the nice features that is not readily apparent from looking at the outside of the case is a nice foam lining on the removable side door. This foam both in design and practice greatly dampens the sound that wound normally leave the case. My only wish is for more of it as the large fan and surrounding mesh still lets out a bit more noise than it would if it had been covered
As you can see in the picture this is the motherboard base area, IN WIN decided to put a fan pointing out the back of the case that is set up to cool the rear of the motherboard… In practice this fan doesn’t seem to do much especially compared to the top and rear fans.on the right hand side you can see the small tray that houses all y our rails for your drives. Personally I love when manufacturers supply tool less drive mounting like this, its even better when they provide you with a way of storing extra unused rails. Way to go IN WIN! dragon-rider023
dragon-rider029 The Dragon Rider also comes with a sealed manual and extra cables just in case your power supply doesn’t reach. The case also comes with extra screws and cable routing assistance.

Overall building this case went over  pretty well, except when it came to cable management. It looks like you have a lot of room in the back panel so you have the urge to route all your cables this way. I can tell you that will lead to an exercise in frustration when both panels don’t close well. Once you realize that the back panel is more for design then for routing cables you will find the case to be much easier to work with. Another pet peeve that this cause is guilty for is that the liquid cooling ports in the rear panel of the case become USB3 out cables because the top mounted USB ports require a cable to be put in the rear I/O panel. Once the hurdle of cable management was passed this case went together VERY easily and I love how well everything went together and how much room was left for all my components. Drives as is usual with the rail method were simple to install and would be very easy to switch out should the need arise.

For this case I loaded it with the following hardware.

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