Assembly:
Components that went into this build:
• DFI NF2 Ultra Infinity Motherboard
• AMD 2400+ Mobile Athlon XP
• 1 GB Corsair XMS3200XLPT
• ATI Radeon 8500 Video Card
• Seagate (7200.8) 200 GB SATA hard Drive
• Thermalright 947U Heatsink
• Spire 80mm Aluminum Heatsink Fan
• DVD-Rom
• Floppy Drive
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As stated previously, assembling a case with a removable motherboard tray is a simple feat. Prepare the tray by screwing in the included brass standoffs and installing the backplane. One note here, a backplane is not included with the XG Dragon. Most motherboards these days come with a custom backplane panel and therefore a standard one is not normally needed, but if you don't have one for your particular motherboard, this could be an issue.
After the tray is prepped, screw down your motherboard, pop in some RAM and then a video card. All of the PCI cards you plan on using can be installed at this time. There is a special device built into this tray that holds your video card and PCI cards in. A simple pinch of the purple hold down and it slides up to allow cards to be installed. When everything is positioned just right, slide the holder back down and everything is nicely secured. The pictures below show the motherboard tray assembled with the motherboard, heatsink, fan, RAM and video card.
 
After sliding the assembled motherboard tray back into the case, I went to install a few drives. This was also a bit of a surprise; the Dragon comes with an assortment of odd looking devices meant to lock down the optical drives, hard drives and floppy drives.
These clips are a bit of a nuisance and although they work well enough, the pegs are a bit too big and you have to do some forcing to get the clips into place and locked down. Four sets of both hard drive and optical clips are included, as well as two sets of floppy clips, enough to fill the case up to its rated capacity. The picture on the left shows the three sizes of clips and one strange optical device clip that was assembled backward. The picture on the right shows the clips in use holding a floppy drive on top and a hard drive below.
 
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