Tagan EL DIABLO APLUS Case Review :: Tagan El Diablo A+Interior

The interior of the case is an interesting contrast to the exterior. There is no removable motherboard tray meaning that the motherboard will have to be mounted inside the case and not on the tray. Second there’s a ton of cables for the fan controllers located on the bottom of the case under where the motherboard would go.

Open Case

Front panel stand

Side panel

360mm fan

The PSU area can fit any size PSU including the longer ones that have started to hit the market place. One thing I would like for Tagan to have included was better wiring on the fans. There are four Molex connectors being used by the fans and lights that could be hooked on the corresponding connections via labels on wires to the PCB (green board). And you may need only one Molex connector to power up two fans, LED, and fan controllers through the PCB board. The interior of the side panel is dominated by the 360mm fan as is to be expected.

PSU area

Grill

LED Fan 2

Fan power

The rear of the motherboard area has seven holes for PCI slots, the standard on most ATX motherboards. Each slot has a plastic retaining clip to hold devices in place. The clips are fairly sturdy but short of taking off the clips there’s no way to just screw the cards into place, which would be useful when heavy cards like the GTX280 or HD 4870 X2 are installed in the case in multiple. No issues with weight were observed in the system build so maybe it’s not a big deal.

The HDD cage is a single unit 6 drive enclosure. Tagan went with a tool less design here as well, meaning that to install a HDD, simply attach a rail to the HDD and slide it into the HDD rack. With both of the 5.25 and 3.5” drives installed you need a long screw if you want to hold the drives more securely into place. Another thing to note is that there are no sharp edges inside the case, all of the edges have been rounded, and meaning that working inside the case is pain free as some cases tend to cause trouble on the hands.