We can now go in for a closer look. The Dragon Rider in the below front and back shot looks fantastic. Even if you don't appreciate gamer style cases, you have to admit that the front of this case looks really ferocious. The front features 5 x 5.25" drive bays which have little latches on either side to extract the front cover. We also have a bay cover at the very bottom of the Dragon Rider which is simply there to allow you to get at 2 screws for removing the front 120mm intake fan which is behind the HDD cage. In the centre we have the In Win insignia which, when powered up will illuminate blue. In Win have really upped the anti with their case design since I last encountered their products and its good to see that things are improving.

Moving to the rear, from the bottom to the top we have an opening for a bottom mounted PSU. A total of 8 expansion slot covers, each bearing a perforated design to assist with heat dissipation. Above this we have a 120mm rear exhaust fan in a lime green colour and finally at the very top 4 rubber grommets for feeding cables or tubing should you need to.

On that rear shot of the case you can see the profile of the Dragon Rider, to the left side the concaved design that protrudes for assistance with cable management.



Moving to the top of the Dragon Rider we have a superbly crafted front panel control unit that gives us plenty of options such as mic/headpone sockets, 2 x USB 3.0, 2 x USB 2.0, 1 x firewire, 2 x eSATA, plus the power and reset buttons.



Further down the case to the rear we have 2 openings for 120mm fans to be mounted. Inside you can see that there is already a pre-installed 120mm fan. It's strange and uncommon to see 120mm fans being used at the top of the case - with most cases today the choice of size is usually upwards of 200mm.

Incidentally you can fit a 240mm radiator at the top of the case if you want to go down the water-cooling route.