Can anyone help reduce the number of cables in PC?

Goose · 29 May 2015 at 11:29

I got a Corsair 750D yesterday and with it having a big ol' window i want to make things look a bit neater. I plan on getting an AIO to replace giant heatsink and i'd also like to be able to do away with some of cables (pic below).

I'll list the cables i'm currently using and hopefully someone might have some better ideas than mine about how to get rid of some of them.

1x 24 pin Power
1x 8 pin CPU
4x PCI-E for the 2 gfx cards
1x SATA for the 2 SSD's
1x Sata for the HDD since other one cant reach both SSD's and the HDD
1x Molex for the Bitfenix fan controller
1x Stupid multi-coloured USB thingy for the Bitfenix fan controller

Are there any cables I can use to combine the PCI-E cables so i dont need 4 separate ones for each 8 pin power socket? Being able to run both SSD's, HDD and the fan controller off one cable would also help a lot too.

Anyhoo, i'm open to suggestions

Thanks

DaleTheWhale · 29 May 2015 at 11:41

I would get some black sleeved cable extensions as they look neater and bend more easier as cables are sleeved individually. Then you can pin these so they tuck underneath the card, or wrap around more tidier, trying to find a picture.

What is the red and white cable?

dacads · 29 May 2015 at 11:51

That red looks really out of place haha. Can't you get an extension for it, then hide the red away?

Akagi · 29 May 2015 at 11:55

Tuck it all around the back of the motherboard tray..?

Oh and get a support or something for those GPU's before they distort permanently.

Goose · 29 May 2015 at 12:03

ThaReaperGuy said:
I would get some black sleeved cable extensions as they look neater and bend more easier as cables are sleeved individually. Then you can pin these so they tuck underneath the card, or wrap around more tidier, trying to find a picture.

What is the red and white cable?

dacads said:
That red looks really out of place haha. Can't you get an extension for it, then hide the red away?

Acme said:
Tuck it all around the back of the motherboard tray..?

Oh and get a support or something for those GPU's before they distort permanently.

Everything that can be is routed behind the motherboard tray. I want to be able to run more things of the same cable so I dont have to use so many cables to begin with (PSU is fully modular).

The red and white thing is from the fan controller which i hope get rid of soon.

I have absolutely no idea how to stop the GPU's sagging like they do.

DrunkRufie · 29 May 2015 at 12:15

Goose said:
I have absolutely no idea how to stop the GPU's sagging like they do.

Here's one way

Goose · 29 May 2015 at 12:20

I'll raid my nephews toy box and see what i cant come up with

I'm gonna get one of these and one of these

So i should be able to get rid of one of the SATA cables and the Molex cables which should tidy up the PSU area a bit.

Are there any cables that turn an 8 pin pcie cable in to a dual 8 pin pcie cable? I googled it but couldn't find anything.

Spacedeck · 29 May 2015 at 12:29

I have the same cable issues, so thanks for the thread, I'll be trying a few things to get things looking better

Acme said:
Tuck it all around the back of the motherboard tray..?

Oh and get a support or something for those GPU's before they distort permanently.

Never something that crossed my mind. I thought the slant would just be natural due to how heavy the cards are... need to have a look into what I can use now :eek:

Akagi · 29 May 2015 at 12:30

Spacedeck said:
I have the same cable issues, so thanks for the thread, I'll be trying a few things to get things looking better

Never something that crossed my mind. I thought the slant would just be natural due to how heavy the cards are... need to have a look into what I can use now

I had a GTX670 which sagged, I left it as people said it would be fine and they were all like it etc, after a year or two the PCB was physically warped and the metal bracket was a bit bent.