Cable management help

CliffyBiro

CliffyBiro

CliffyBiro

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OK guys this is the new rig as it is now:



Obviously there is still the PSU, CPU and a HDD to be installed and probably a Noctua CPU fan.

What I need is advice on how to get some sort of cable management in this case to hide most of the wires.

Any suggestions are helpful.
 
What a mess! I think the key word is in your post, hide the cables.

My PC has 5 hard drives and 4 case fans. The small cable you can see at the bottom is the cable to the fan on my door. All the red cables you can see are the SATA cables for all my hard drives (run outta sockets on the motherboard so had to use a add in card too!).

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As you can see, the exaust fan (the horrible coloured thing) has its cable going up and under the PSU so its instantly hidden. All of the power cables are behind the HDD/FDD/5.25" bay apart from what needs to reach to the HDD themselves.
 
One thing to consider - dont use the motherboards fan headers to plug your fans in (apart from CPU). Cable tie the CPU fan cable up small so its next/under the CPU which hides it, or do what I did with mine (as it was braided) and "loop" it so it just sits above the CPU (black but hidden).

All of my case fans apart from the one on the side panel plug in to a fan controller, so thats 3 cables hidden behind the PSU/hard drive bays. Cable ties are your friend, use them to hold a cable in a position so it just has enough length to reach the graphics card / hard drive etc..

If you look at my sata cables at the bottom, there are actually 4 comming from the motherboard but I used red cable ties (which came with the cable) to tie them in pairs.

My power cables are all black apart from a molex -> sata adapter for the bottom hard drive, so it makes them invisible in that picture but you can actually see about 2-3" of cable emerging from behind the hard drive bay and plugging in to the hard drives.

as said above, use some electrical tape or duct tape to stick them to the underside of the motherboard tray (I didn't need to do this on this PC however but I have on my old one).
 
All my case fans are molex. :(

As for routing the wires behind the mobo tray, I was going to try that but unsure as to where I should locate the holes on the tray to be most efficient. Don't want it looking like rubbish. :)
 
skippi90 said:
All my case fans are molex. :(

As for routing the wires behind the mobo tray, I was going to try that but unsure as to where I should locate the holes on the tray to be most efficient. Don't want it looking like rubbish. :)
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put the holes under the motherboard so they arent visible. you can always lengthen (sp?) cables easily enough like i did to get them all hidden. i really hate cable mess and with having a side panel i think its crucial that you have a tidy case. for the cables you do see its better to have them all braided so they are the same colour. gives it a cleaner look

here is my cable tidying...

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and my updated pic with new specs...

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the cables at the bottom need braiding when i can be bothered to do it, but for now i think it looks okay.

StevenG
 
OK, it now looks pretty good. Got all fan cables and things round the back of the mobo tray but can't think of a way to hide the front panel cables like the power led, sound, usb etc from the case. Braid?
 
skippi90 said:
OK, it now looks pretty good. Got all fan cables and things round the back of the mobo tray but can't think of a way to hide the front panel cables like the power led, sound, usb etc from the case. Braid?
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braid is the best option for wires you cant hide :)

StevenG
 
skippi90 said:
OK, it now looks pretty good. Got all fan cables and things round the back of the mobo tray but can't think of a way to hide the front panel cables like the power led, sound, usb etc from the case. Braid?
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Pics? :) I need to do this myself sometime in the next week too
 
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