Installation:

Fitting the motherboard onto the motherboard tray presented no issues at all, everything fitted perfectly. No misaligned holes. A good start.

The Dragon case uses a tool free construction for the expansion card slots. You have to lift a plastic bracket up and insert the card.

For this review a PowerColor X850XT was used, and the X850XT has the dual slot cooler. But this card didn’t like the tool free solution of the dragon one bit; it simply wasn’t possible securing the card with it.

This picture show why it wasn’t possible to use the “tool free” solution, the plastic bracket that supposed to lock the X850 in place either was misaligned to the PCI slots or to the motherboard plate itself. I tried releasing the screws on the motherboard and “jiggle” it in place but to no avail.

Luckily the plastic locking device was removable and I could just fasten the card the old fashion way, with screws.

Here’s the motherboard tray with everything installed and ready to move into the case.

To install the 5.25” and 3.5” the Dragon also has a tool free solution; they have supplied a bunch of “knobs” used to secure the devices inside the case.

Just align the device in the cage, and attach the knob and turn it. One for each side of the cage. This solution was entirely trouble free and worked just as it should.

Hard Disc Drive

DVD Rom

When using the A64 Freezer as we did in this review, it wasn’t possible to use the fan duct for the CPU due to the tall height of the Freezer. So we simply removed the duct and put in an 80mm blue led fan directly on the side door.