Tagan CS-EL Diablo

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Presentation was very good here. Retail boxing was informative and packaged securely. I wish the company's website had a few more photos of the CS-EL Diablo and that t those photos could be enlarged. Really a shame given that they have built a very nice looking case.

Appearance of the CS-EL Diablo case is going to be entirely a personal preference call. I personally found the case to be a good looking case. The finish was good and it definitely had the WOW factor. My wife on the other hand, had a much different feeling about this case. (But she's not the one writing this review so I'm still giving it a high Appearance rating)

I’m a little mixed about the construction value of this case. On one hand it is a very large, very solid case with good cooling, but on the other hand there has been some pretty important design flaws that force me to reduce my rating.

Here is the big one, functionality. I personally couldn’t get over the problem with the swinging door on this case. While it looks nice it needs a redesign in the worst way. Only opening 90 degrees and not staying open at that is just not acceptable to me. I would also like to see the case have the option to be used comfortably by right handed people. If Tagan were to revise this case to fix the door issue and the I/O port issue I would have no problem giving this case a 9 on functionality.

Ok, value, is the case worth the $119.99 that NewEgg wants for it? If you are looking for the WOW factor in your case then YES this case is a worth the money without a doubt. If you are looking for a great all around case, we have a slight problem. This case is priced about the same as the Antec 900, and honestly the Antec 900 case doesn’t have the problems that this case does yet still has excellent cooling. With a few slight revisions this case could be a toss up with the Antec though.