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Akagi

Akagi

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I bought one bitfenix alchemy white braided cable as i needed to extend my CPU power cable, and the alchemy one was only 2 quid more.

The quality of the cable is superb! And it makes me want to do my entire system with them, and when i get the funds i'm sure i will :D

But using these cables does conjure up a problem... How do you keep all those lengths of cable under control? It has to be a job and a half, so you should be proud of your effort :D

Post your pictures of your cable management jobs, with a particular focus on those with the cable extensions. Pictures of the back as well as the front :p

Would be nice to see how many people approach it carefully and tidily, and how many people have a nest of slightly crushed cables :rolleyes: mine is somewhere in between :p

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The inside of the main rig :D

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The back of the main rig, notice my slightly shoddy nest of cables down the bottom, and all that unused space :rolleyes:

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The altogether less interesting insides of the server/cruncher :o

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I'm messy, no one ever sees the back so who cares


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I did have braided cables for the GFX card but it just gets harder to put the back on the case, the more I have in there.
 
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KiiYzOo said:

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Very nice indeed, are you getting the loop back in the rvo2 or are you going to stick to air cooling? I suppose it would be tricky to fit a loop in there... Why the case swap may i ask?

*edit* wait... is that a megahalems with no fans? :p
 
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I plan on watercooling it with a 3 x 180mm rad after saving up for a retina macbook pro :)

I've always loved the rv02, and the r3 was getting a bit cramped

yes. yes it is a passive megahalems :D
 
KiiYzOo said:
I plan on watercooling it with a 3 x 180mm rad after saving up for a retina macbook pro :)

I've always loved the rv02, and the r3 was getting a bit cramped

yes. yes it is a passive megahalems :D
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nice :)

what CPU do you have under the megahalems? And what temps can you get with no fans? :eek:

slight tangent hehe, but im sure it doesn't matter too much.
 
I have a 3570k at stock under it, it reaches around 70 degrees in dayz, but it doesn't help that I don't have much thermal paste on it

edit - sorry, the 3570k is actually overclocked to 4.2ghz, I didn't realise that xmp was actually overclocking my cpu, and not just letting me run my ram at 1600mhz :p
 
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KiiYzOo said:
I have a 3570k at stock under it, it reaches around 70 degrees in dayz, but it doesn't help that I don't have much thermal paste on it

edit - sorry, the 3570k is actually overclocked to 4.2ghz, I didn't realise that xmp was actually overclocking my cpu, and not just letting me run my ram at 1600mhz :p
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thats pretty good actually, just... Remember to lay off the stress testing :p
 
A big fan of Orange as you know mate and I do like it but I had to comment on the hard drive. Super out of the way placement there. Don't think I've seen a mechanical just shoved behind stuff like that. Nice work.

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And orange SATA cables would look super.

Oh and the Blue light on the front of the RV02, that should be easy enough to change?
 
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A big fan of Orange as you know mate and I do like it but I had to comment on the hard drive. Super out of the way placement there. Don't think I've seen a mechanical just shoved behind stuff like that. Nice work.

*snip*

And orange SATA cables would look super.

Oh and the Blue light on the front of the RV02, that should be easy enough to change?
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Thanks tealc :p there was nowhere else to put the drive where it'd be out of the way :p

these two are things on my to do list, only problem is, I'm trying to save up some money to get a macbook for school, but after that I want to do many things with my rig including watercooling it, braiding all of the cables and changing the leds to orange :)
 
The back of mine is a mess! :P no one ever sees it though and i'll get a picture of it when i have some free time but from the viewing side..

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An alturnative way to hide your cables (if you have an older case)
I used a cut down 120.3 rad grill with blue perspex under it.
Will try and get an updated one, now that the loop is up and running again

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acme15 said:
Very impressive, consider me jealous :p

How did you take those pictures? What camera did you use..? And what backdrop/lighting? Looks very professional
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Thanks :) I get asked about the lighting quite a lot and its nothing fancy im not photographer haha.

I put the case up on my desk and used my £120 camera or something i brought a few years ago ( Sony DSC-W320 14.1 megapixels) My window shines light in from behind me so directly into where im taking the pictures and i just found a nice shot and took it without flash then resized in photoshop. No backdrop or anything.
 
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The back of mine is a mess! :P no one ever sees it though and i'll get a picture of it when i have some free time but from the viewing side..
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Which extensions did you go for in the end?

Has anyone got any blue extensions i would like to have a look at them for to see what would suit in my rig...
 
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need to sort out the red SATA cables from the Bluray drive but im happy for my first attempt at building a full system.
would take one of the back but its that bad i struggle to get the side back on. One day i will finnish sorting it but i just want to ensure everything it working ok first
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need to sort out the red SATA cables from the Bluray drive but im happy for my first attempt at building a full system.
would take one of the back but its that bad i struggle to get the side back on. One day i will finnish sorting it but i just want to ensure everything it working ok first
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You did a custom loop on your first full build..? Awesome :p I didnt have the guts to do that...

It looks nice, very nice :) Pretty much what i wish my system looked like inside.
 
acme15 said:
You did a custom loop on your first full build..? Awesome :p I didnt have the guts to do that...

It looks nice, very nice :) Pretty much what i wish my system looked like inside.
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Thanks. I am proud of it

I spent a lot of time planning it. Read every instruction book online before I even ordered the parts. I suppose it was worth it tho. Everything went together a dream.
 
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