Conclusions
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The Dragon Rider is a very nice full-tower case if you are looking for a case with lots of nice features supporting several fans.
Strong Points
- Meshed covers on the external bays with air filters
- Air filter for the front fan
- Air filter for the power supply fan
- Fan for cooling down the bottom of the CPU
- Massive number of fans (case comes with five and supports up to 11)
- Six 3.5” hard drive bays (seven if the 5.25”-to-3.5” adapter is used)
- 2.5” hard drive/SSD bay
- Tool-less mechanisms for installing drives
- Individual tool-less mechanisms for fastening expansion cards that are very sturdy
- Eight expansion slots
- Meshed slot covers
- A huge hole in the motherboard tray for accessing the backplate of the CPU cooler
- Holes for routing cables behind the motherboard tray
- Rear panel and interior are painted black
- Excellent number of expansion ports: two USB 2.0, two USB 3.0, two eSATA and one FireWire
- No sharp edges where you could cut yourself while building your computer
Weak Points
- No air filter on the left-side panel
- No air filter on the right-side panel