Yoyotech Dragon F-58 review

Silverstone has produced some exciting PC enclosures in its time, but the new FT03 – which houses the Yoyotech Dragon-F58 – is truly outlandish. Abandoning the conventional layout, its motherboard has been rotated 90 degrees and its components arranged from top to bottom in a tall, towering column design unlike anything we’ve seen.

The PSU sits at the bottom of the FT03 and acts as ballast for the thin body. It’s fitted so snugly that the power socket isn’t readily accessible, so an extension cable connects it to a secondary input at the bottom of the case. Four feet keep the base raised to allow air to be drawn in, and cables are hidden away in the side of the case behind the motherboard tray.

Beside the PSU is one of the FT03’s two 120mm case fans. It’s angled at 45 degrees, and draws cool air from a vent on the underside of the machine upwards towards the graphics card and CPU cooler. There are a couple of neat additions on top of the PSU, too: room for a slot-loading optical drive and a bracket for an SSD. It’s a shame that the FT03’s minimal façade means the eject button on the drive can’t be used, though.

The FT03 can only handle micro-ATX motherboards – Yoyotech has chosen the Asus M4A88TD-M EVO – and the interior is necessarily cramped. The vertical graphics card next to the side of the chassis blocks access to the empty PCI slot and trio of spare 6Gbits/sec SATA ports along the bottom of the board. You can get to the two vacant RAM sockets behind the Thermaltake Contac29 cooler, but it’s a bit of a squeeze.

The hidden cable area ensures the Yoyotech is tidy, and it also includes a couple of hard disk bays. The main 3.5in bay is hot-swappable and can be opened using a switch at the top of the case, and there’s a second less simple bay too. Silverstone has even found room to include a third hard disk bay that hangs down from the top at a slight angle.