Help with cable management in North East England area. Will pay for help.. :S

mrteabag · 4 Aug 2010 at 22:49

Why is there a fan floating inside the computer?

R.C.Anderson · 4 Aug 2010 at 22:51

Thekwango said:
oh dear god, does that even work?? lol

yea

Although I keep meaning to grab a current meter to see how much my PSU is pulling, as I'm sure it's close to it's limit... 6HDD, an OCed E2180, and a 4870... but I leave the side off a lot of the time, although at the moment I have the side on, and even with the dust my CPU is idle at about 40C (a little warm, but I don't have time to clean it out at the moment) and it doesn't get any higher than about 53C ish at full load.

R.C.Anderson · 4 Aug 2010 at 22:52

mrteabag said:
Why is there a fan floating inside the computer?

it's pointed at the NB

it was getting quite warm when I was OCing, so I stuck that there, and it seemed fine after that

Jayster · 4 Aug 2010 at 22:54

Route as many cables as you can behind the motherboard and if they dont stretch get extensions you can also hide excess cable behind the motherboard on top of optical drives and below hard drives.

Jayster · 4 Aug 2010 at 22:56

R.C.Anderson said:
it's pointed at the NB it was getting quite warm when I was OCing, so I stuck that there, and it seemed fine after that

lol I have a fan right beside my nb cooler than again i have a oem packard bell board so the fan is like 4 times the size of the nb cooler.

Biz.Kid09 · 4 Aug 2010 at 23:32

Heres mine...bear in mind its a small micro atx case:

Redmint · 4 Aug 2010 at 23:36

R.C.Anderson said:
It's almost as bad as mine athough I think mine is about as bad as it can get... I haven't got any extension cables, and to get everything plugged in, I need the extra length. (also in need of a good dusting)

That's quite epic.

Mak3R · 5 Aug 2010 at 00:01

here be inside my 902. not good, but a lot better than my previous build!

BoroRob_UK · 5 Aug 2010 at 00:37

kalvindeane said:
Is that a H50? What temps are you getting with it, as it only has one fan, and looks like it's stock? :O

One-by-one route the cables through the holes in your case, you should be able to hide a LOT of them

Yes it is a h50 and its set up the standard way with the fan sucking air from outside the case onto the rad..

Obv u can put 2 fans on I suspect but are there any alternative ways to improve the h50?

Anyone? and good fan recommendations welcome..

mrteabag · 5 Aug 2010 at 01:11

Akasa Apache fans are decent

ToxicTBag · 5 Aug 2010 at 02:16

BoroRob Uk if your still looking for help i am in ts1 central middlesbrough, be happy to try and help you out if you want to bring the rig down (i dont drive) and i have most of the bits n bobs a cable tidy would need here - save your £50 notes and send message via trust if your still "tied up"

Infam0us · 5 Aug 2010 at 05:31

R.C.Anderson said:
It's almost as bad as mine athough I think mine is about as bad as it can get... I haven't got any extension cables, and to get everything plugged in, I need the extra length. (also in need of a good dusting)

Did a PSU throw up in your case?

R.C.Anderson · 5 Aug 2010 at 07:49

Infam0us said:
Did a PSU throw up in your case?

Apparently... It was ok too, until I switched from a 3850 to a 4870, and added an extra 4 HDDs

Daaaveee · 5 Aug 2010 at 10:14

902 are not bad at all for cable management. Just use all the holes provided and route everything behind. Its a right mess on the other side but you dont see it and there is no airflow behind there so no worries

Got some pre braided NZXT cable in the post to tidy mine up a bit more:

BoroRob_UK · 5 Aug 2010 at 10:43

^^ That looks very tidy Dave..

SETI, I'm going to have a go at it myself first see if I can pull it off I do need to learn how to do this really...

If i get stuck tho Ill contact you for help. Do you have MSN Messenger SETI ? PM me ur address plz if u do..

So, guys, what NZXT cables will I need to do all this properly? Links plz

Daaaveee · 5 Aug 2010 at 10:58

Well you dont need the extra cables by any means. You could achieve something similar to mine with a bit of time. Since that pic I've used a few cable ties which help keep things together.

These are the prebraided cables you can get, it just finishes the system off to make it look more professional really.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=1428&subid=1689

If I were you I'd just get stuck in hiding and re-routing as much stuff as you can through the holes and out of sight. Then once you have achieved as tidy a machine as you can from that have a look and see if those prebraided cables can help make it look even tidier.

Mak3R · 5 Aug 2010 at 13:24

Dave how did u manage to get the front USb cable from the top of the case the whole way down the back and into the slot? It just wasnt long enough

Daaaveee · 5 Aug 2010 at 16:32

Mak3R said:
Dave how did u manage to get the front USb cable from the top of the case the whole way down the back and into the slot? It just wasnt long enough

Yeah its pretty tight! If the connection on to the motherboard was just slightly further it wouldn't have reached. As you can see from my pics they are pretty much pulled as tight as possible.

I pulled at it and the on button etc cables and they snapped loose from something (I guess there is another clip above the DVD drive holding them together) which gave me the extra 30-40mm needed. To be honest I thought I had pulled them out of the connection to the ports at the top! But all is fine they are working, but be careful if you intend on pulling them for the extra few mm too. May be easier to use: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CB-043-AK&groupid=701&catid=1428&subcat=1689

Mak3R · 5 Aug 2010 at 17:40

Hmm I'll have a check next time my case is open cheers. Yeah I had seen those extensions when I ordered my rig, was out of stock then (which was months ago) and still are...

Daaaveee · 5 Aug 2010 at 21:40

Just installed a couple NZXT prebraided cables, 24pin ATX, 2x 6pin GPU cables and a molex to 2x SATA power.

Just got a few more little tweaks then I will be 100% happy

The side back side wasn't exactly easy to get back on though...! Still squeezed it back on eventually.