Tagan A+ Black Pearl II Computer Case Review

Page 4 - Installation

Time to put some hardware inside A+ Black Pearl II and admire the results. Step one is the PSU (which, sadly, happens to be an ugly one). Although the case is big enough the removable plate is a good idea (after all you could decide to put a water cooling radiator in front of the PSU):

The bad thing in this case is that even a short PSU blocks substantial area of the 120 mm fan opening on the top panel, denying the use of fan at all. It would be nice if the opening was placed closer to the front, because as you can clearly figure it out a much more serious PSU (say, 1000+ Watt) is much longer and will block the whole thing. And don't even get us started on the ugliness of the situation should (God forbid) the PSU colour doesn't match the case colour:

Now to mount the optical drive. The covers of the 5.25” slots are also made from aluminum in order to fit the overall design snugly. As we mentioned earlier use of tools with the 5.25” devices is mandatory, no easy way around:

Motherboard and CPU cooler. Plenty of space for cables, cards and stuff around, see? :)

Time for the hard drive. The case kit provides special screws with rubber washers that are mounted on the hard drive, thus allowing easy mounting and unmounting at the designated for the purpose place:

And here is the fan controller/thermometer and front panel in operational mode. The two small buttons on each side of the controller С двете малки бутончета от страни на контролера се manage its functions. We must note that the case kit supplies enough adapters for all purposes imaginable: