Cable management Guru's in here please!
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Not always, methinks. The ugliest cabling, IMO is in the area of the HDDs and the optical drives. In most cases the optical drives are at the top front and the HDDs are in the bottom front. Most motherboards place the SATA/IDE ports so as to locate them near the bottom front of the machine when in a standard ATX case. Placing the PSU near the drives, rather than near the mobo's ATX connector can give you a little more freedom when running your power cables to those devices. In a case like that with HDDs at the bottom very near the SATA ports, I'd try to mount the drives backward so as to place the power and I/O ports out of sight when viewing the motherboard.weringo said:
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You bet I do!NachT said:It's no way near as tidy as the aboves, but you definatly dont wanna see in the bottom of the case!
Nice setups in here guys. Lian Li's always seem to look so tidy 
I love my Gigabyte Aurora but it just isn't long enough and so means that the space between the motherboard and hdd bays is small, making it hard to tidy the cables in this area. They end up sticking out all over the place
I think my next case will have to be a Lian Li V1000B, it looks so good
I love my Gigabyte Aurora but it just isn't long enough and so means that the space between the motherboard and hdd bays is small, making it hard to tidy the cables in this area. They end up sticking out all over the place
I think my next case will have to be a Lian Li V1000B, it looks so good
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Time for an SATA drive?Hxc said:
For a start, I would group all of the cables coming out of the PSU with cable ties, and run them into the bottom of the drive cages. I would then run them up to the relevant components trying to keep them behind the drive cage, or grouped together in one bundle just behind it. The only exception would be the eps12v connector, which I would run over the top of the PSU, up the perforated section above the PCI brackets, then underneath the exhaust fan; it looks like it should just reach that way. Same with your fan adapters, stash them out of sight in the drive bays!phil14 said:
One of the advantages of where I work is that I have access to all the various Molex connectors/crimps/tools, so I can make custom cables to act as a fan bus etc. Just remember to label them if you mod them to 7v, otherwise you might accidentally plug them into the wrong thing at some point in the future (speaking from experience
).That's quite funky PSU you have, did it come with (what look like) ferrites on the cables?
BEn_2600+, I see you managed to fit your Ultra 120 the other way around in the end. Looks a lot tidier than the first picture you posted in OC & Cooling!
Well it worked, it's neater than mine now! Hmmph!BEn_2600+ said:yeah after seeing your rig i was determined to get it that way round, its a tight fit but betterMy aim was to make it neater too, the cable sleeving help a lot
Ben
*digs out screwdriver and cable ties*
KotFM said:For a start, I would group all of the cables coming out of the PSU with cable ties, and run them into the bottom of the drive cages. I would then run them up to the relevant components trying to keep them behind the drive cage, or grouped together in one bundle just behind it. The only exception would be the eps12v connector, which I would run over the top of the PSU, up the perforated section above the PCI brackets, then underneath the exhaust fan; it looks like it should just reach that way. Same with your fan adapters, stash them out of sight in the drive bays!
One of the advantages of where I work is that I have access to all the various Molex connectors/crimps/tools, so I can make custom cables to act as a fan bus etc. Just remember to label them if you mod them to 7v, otherwise you might accidentally plug them into the wrong thing at some point in the future (speaking from experience
That's quite funky PSU you have, did it come with (what look like) ferrites on the cables?
Thanks for that iw ill go and buy some cable ties, And then try and work on it. I would like to off had water cooling.. But theres no chance off it fitting in there....
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Here's mine. What I tend to do is tuck all my psu cables inside the spacing just below your optical drive. Rest are tucked round the back.
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Cable tidying makes all the difference when going for an impressive impact. As I discussed and documented in my previous thread I had a go at sleeving my ATX and EPS12V cables. I think the results speak for themselves. The only cable that visually crosses the window is the HDD's SATA cable. I still need to sort out some extra long cables for that if I want to hide it as well.
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