Conclusions

I really wasn’t sure about this case when I looked it up. The styling seemed neat, but I wasn’t sure how that would translate to actually seeing it in action. I was actually pleasantly surprised. Not only did the styling grow on me more than I had anticipated, but all of the functionality worked well. For a full tower case it had a lot of features that I really look for, the most important being the flexibility of cable routing. Room above, below, and behind makes installs a lot easier. I am really curious as to how much of a difference having a fan blowing on the CPU backplate makes, but thermal testing wasn’t something we were set up for on this review. I suspect though that it will help at least a little bit.

Normally I can pick out at least a couple of elements that bothered me, but I struggled more than I thought I would with this case. The traditional mainboard standoffs I wasn’t a fan of, but they are still the standard in the vast majority of cases. With all of the different potential mainboard sizes this case can accommodate, I don’t really see an alternative to them. Rolling all of that together I am happy to award the In Win Dragon Rider a LanOC Recommended rating!