Case tidying - before and after

Ken · 24 Jan 2006 at 22:51

Hi,

I don't have a photo of my current system in a mess so here's one from last year...

...and here is my current system tidied up.

I am using electrical tape as sleeving temporarily. I'm going to buy a Vantec Sleeving Kit soon.

Any tips to further improve it? Feel free to post your tidy setups.

Cheers,
Ken

alexakasloth · 24 Jan 2006 at 23:10

Hey nice case

You could get some cable ties and bunch the cables coming from hard drives etc all together then stick them to the back.

Krowzer · 24 Jan 2006 at 23:18

Get yourself some rounded IDE cables too

mosfet · 24 Jan 2006 at 23:27

I think the black ASUS ribbon cables look really good actually, not sure rounded cables would look any better.

Shame you had to lose the Zalman, would it not fit?

Well done on the tidying, and nice HDD setup

Ken · 25 Jan 2006 at 00:25

Cheers guys.

I was thinking about rounded IDE cables but I reckon it'll be more difficult to tidy as I can't rest it against the motherboard tray like I am now.

The Zalman box if I remember correctly did not list Socket 939 as one of the compatible sockets so I've never tried. I think there were two versions of my Zalman. The later one was updated and included mounting kit for Socket 939.

I'm probably going to buy a SI-120 or maybe the Swiftech watercooling kit.

As for the sleeving kit, I'll probably go for black or yellow. What you think?

WJA96 · 25 Jan 2006 at 21:55

I've got my HDDs turned around in the case with the SATA and power cables going in the front of the case so they are effectively invisible. You do need long cables though.

sagaboy2 · 25 Jan 2006 at 22:08

Nice work mate, Im going to start work in tidying my case tomorrow, I have the same case.

The main problem is that the length of the cables is the problem so it is hard to hide them behind the drive cages and motherboard tray.

About the sleeving kit, id go for yellow and black aswel, would look rather nice.

Lakeland · 26 Jan 2006 at 12:18

look into the zalman 9500? (big orange one) it will blow the heat right into your psu by the look of it and get took out the back of the pc

Mark A · 26 Jan 2006 at 12:25

Nice job, nice case, i think black rounded ide cables would look better but its up to you.

Mark

Roll · 26 Jan 2006 at 15:35

Well done, some very nice work there.

I suppose if you have a case window you have no choice but make the cables look reasonable.

Just wondered if many people with non-windowed cases still make the effort to make things tidy, or is it more a situation of out of sight out of mind?

Yewen · 26 Jan 2006 at 15:39

My case is reasonably tidy, and I hate windows, helps with airflow

mancubas · 26 Jan 2006 at 16:00

Nice job dude, especially with that number of HD to cable up

I am a out of sight out of mind man

ManC

Yewen · 26 Jan 2006 at 16:25

Basically you cant be bothered to tidy them