From the moment I unpacked the In Win Dragon Slayer case, I fell in love with its design. In Win have managed to style the case in a way that has clean lines yet is still striking to look at.

The case itself is very compact, with its longest dimension being just 430mm, yet even at such a small size it still manages to support full-length graphic cards(32cm/12.6”), up to three 5.25” bays, and four pre-installed fans for cooling (two of those being 140mm). In fact the only thing that gives away the true size of the case is its ability to only support mATX motherboards, and tower CPU coolers less than 15cm in height (I didn’t measure it, so that’s just a estimation). But If I am honest the not supporting the larger tower coolers is not a major issue in a mATX build is it. So not really a valid point I suppose.

Throughout the Dragon Slayer there are plenty of great little touches put there by In Win; from the black powdercoated interior, to the colour matched screws; from the flexibility of drives that can be installed (including a naitive 2.5” drive mount), to the tool-less configuration of them all. That’s not even mentioning my favourite of the features, the large rear CPU access hole.

I’m hard pressed to actually say anything bad about this case, not only because I like it so much, but there really is very little to say against it. It’s priced around £55 online, which is a great price point for the features you’re getting.

I’m almost tempted to pick up a decent mATX motherboard so that I’ll have an excuse to use this case properly. Its compact size would also make it an ideal case for housing a LAN-party rig.

I like this case so much, I want to build a whole new PC round it, I don’t think you can get better praise than that, so it gets our highest Platinum award!

Pros

• Compact
• Great Build Quality
• Spacious Internals
• Powdercoated internals and screws
• Tool-less everything (well, near enough)

Cons

• mATX only (Who knows maybe we will see a Full ATX case with this layout in the future)
• Doesn’t support large tower heatsinks

Reality Check: This has to be the best case I’ve seen from InWin yet, and would make a great compact PC for lots of reasons (read the review to find them all!). It makes me want to pick up a decent mATX kit to have an excuse to keep using this case.

Reviewed by Dan

Thanks to InWin for supplying the case for review