FunkY
20-04-11, 11:28
I've been building computers for years, but I've never been much of one for getting the cable management sorted... I tend to just use a couple of cable ties to keep things out of the way of fans and that's it.
While rebuilding my rig after fitting the new CPU cooler, I decided that now I had extra space to work with I should give it a go... The power supply is half modular. There's about half a dozen cables that can't be removed (motherboard power, CPU 4 pin, seperate CPU 8pin, 2x PCIe 6/8pin etc), all except one of these is in use. You can see the one not in use (CPU 4 pin) coiled up in the bottom of the case.
http://img848.imageshack.us/img848/3831/newj.jpg
In the shot above you can see just how crazy it is in there... This is actually the tidiest it's ever looked. The CPU power line isn't quite long enough to reach behind the motherboard (about 6cm too short) and is routed behind the GPU instead. The fan wire that can be seen going across the RAM has actually been tucked away so that it sits on top of the RAM slots instead of across them, and I cleaned a few remaining bits of dust out.
http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/4402/cablemanagementneeded.jpg
The backside is a complete mess... I've made a little effort to keep the worst of it in one place (behind the HDDs where there's a little more room), but to be honest I don't really care about this bit (nobody sees it once the side panel's on).
What you can't see is the pile of cables and molex connectors hidden underneath the HDDs, that are running most of the fans :p
While rebuilding my rig after fitting the new CPU cooler, I decided that now I had extra space to work with I should give it a go... The power supply is half modular. There's about half a dozen cables that can't be removed (motherboard power, CPU 4 pin, seperate CPU 8pin, 2x PCIe 6/8pin etc), all except one of these is in use. You can see the one not in use (CPU 4 pin) coiled up in the bottom of the case.
http://img848.imageshack.us/img848/3831/newj.jpg
In the shot above you can see just how crazy it is in there... This is actually the tidiest it's ever looked. The CPU power line isn't quite long enough to reach behind the motherboard (about 6cm too short) and is routed behind the GPU instead. The fan wire that can be seen going across the RAM has actually been tucked away so that it sits on top of the RAM slots instead of across them, and I cleaned a few remaining bits of dust out.
http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/4402/cablemanagementneeded.jpg
The backside is a complete mess... I've made a little effort to keep the worst of it in one place (behind the HDDs where there's a little more room), but to be honest I don't really care about this bit (nobody sees it once the side panel's on).
What you can't see is the pile of cables and molex connectors hidden underneath the HDDs, that are running most of the fans :p