In Win Dragon Rider Review

👤by David Mitchelson Comments 📅19-01-11
Packaging & First Look

The Dragon Rider comes packaged within a large box which is suitably arranged with nice graphics on the front and back along with the specifications and features - customary to most case packaging. Inside, the case is wrapped inside a clear plastic sheet and held in place with polystyrene pillars for protection.


In Win Dragon Rider packaging


Taking the case out of the packaging we are met with a rather aggressively styled enclosure. The Dragon Rider is definitely targeted for the gamer, the styling and LED outlets at the front and sides are clear indicators of this.

On the prominent side panel there is a large 220mm LED fan mounted on perforated mesh panelling. This mesh panel can actually host up to 6 x 120mm fans by swapping out the beefy 220mm fan that is pre-mounted.

Around the other side there is an interesting design and shapes going on. In Win have moulded this side panel to feature concaved linings around the main region that cables are fed through from the other side. This should help enormously with cable management - we will find out later on. From the below photograph you will see that there is an area marked out that is again perforated mesh. Behind this we have a 120mm fan and this will provide additional cooling to the underside of the CPU socket and VRM section. A rather innovative idea, I don't recall seeing anything like this on another case so it should be interesting to see whether or not this does have an impact on overall system temperature reduction.


The right side featuring a massive 220mm fan



Concaved design for cable management w/ 120mm fan - CPU/VRM cooling


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