Any temp benchamrks between 2 pcs. One with and one without cable management.

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Any temp benchamrks between 2 pcs with exactly same spec. One with and one without cable management. People say its a huge difference but i want to see :)
 
You can't do a scientific analysis like this since there is no set way for cables to be "unmanaged". If you have bundles of cables obstructing the airflow paths in your case, your temps will be worse. Quantifying it more than that really isn't possible for any meaningful result.
 
well i guess you could do a quick build without cable tidying, take some temps and then tidy the cables up, but i cant see any major advantages to doing this as it would be time consuming and not overly accurate.
there will pos be a 2-5deg difference, but then you can get that anyway sometimes, cant say mine is exactly the same temp everytime i turn it on.
 
Yeh id agree not an easy thing to really be 100% accurate about.

My overal case temp went down by 5c on average after cable tyding, so every new build i do now, its just part of the build really to try and make it neat/semi neat inside.
 
bifday2k said:
Yeh id agree not an easy thing to really be 100% accurate about.

My overal case temp went down by 5c on average after cable tyding, so every new build i do now, its just part of the build really to try and make it neat/semi neat inside.
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agreed, and not only that, it makes you feel a greater sense of achievement when you know everything in the case is tidy.
plus, a lot of new cases have fans in soo many places, would hate a stray cable to make its way into one of them :eek:
 
Cable management seems to be very popular with air cooled cases. Since moving to water I'm mostly ignoring it:
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Yeah, my w/c is fit as a fiddle in the main chamber. Cable mess must die!!!!!

To the OP: just run Prime95 and 3DMark Vantage at the same time. That should warm her up a bit.
 
The problem is to sort out the cables & tubes I have to rebuild it in a pretty specific order, and will then be unable to remove the motherboard without stripping the watercooling apart. The space beyond the 120mm radiators is fairly clear, likewise below the 240, so I would see no improvement in temperatures.

It's hard to justify making it so much more difficult to work on for no improvement in temps. I'll have some quick disconnects fairly soon so may rebuild it when they get here.
 
JonJ678 said:
The problem is to sort out the cables & tubes I have to rebuild it in a pretty specific order, and will then be unable to remove the motherboard without stripping the watercooling apart. The space beyond the 120mm radiators is fairly clear, likewise below the 240, so I would see no improvement in temperatures.

It's hard to justify making it so much more difficult to work on for no improvement in temps. I'll have some quick disconnects fairly soon so may rebuild it when they get here.
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probably like you say more practical, but i still prefer to have it all neat and tidy.
 
This is mine as it currently stands.

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This weekend im going to try and sort out the mess of cables, particularly in the bottom.
 
Yep, seen it in paradigms other thread in the case section, a really nice setup. Same case internally, though mine is the doorless a70fb variant. Ive picked up some good ideas from that thread to help tidy mine a bit. Main issue though is my non modular psu, quite a lot of cables not in use which clutter the case floor.
 
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