Coolermaster Gladiator - Cable management

lemzip · 20 Jan 2010 at 02:17

Any help/anything you would change/do different? Excuse the red cable at the top right behind the dvd-rw, thanks for the side window fan.

Im tempted to take the back fan off which is pulling out as really the push pull combo has changed as you can see the mugen 2 fan is at the bottle and i have a 210 fan at the top of the case pulling out.

cheers

Shakeel · 20 Jan 2010 at 02:56

it looks fine

chipps101 · 20 Jan 2010 at 11:24

thats about as neat and tidy as its gonna get, very nice job

chris__stoke · 20 Jan 2010 at 13:26

Very tidy wish i could get mine that neat damn antec 300

daelo · 20 Jan 2010 at 13:26

Ive got a cm690 which the internals look very similar to yours, ie mobo tray holes, youve done a prtty good job there i reckon.

Maybe you could get some more cable ties and tidy up the rear exhaust fan a bit and what looks to be another fan cable(red next to the IDE connection).

lemzip · 20 Jan 2010 at 13:44

cheers!

That fan cable next to the ide connection is for the case side which has a fan on, had a look last night on what to do but its kinda short....

tempted to cable the 24 round the back and then back in but dont know if i have enough cable length for it...will be my mission tonight.

Parsley · 20 Jan 2010 at 15:40

It's fine, in terms of preventing the cables from obstructing the airflow in the case you won't do much better

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And it looks nice and tidy to boot!

Diggsy · 20 Jan 2010 at 16:57

chris__stoke said:
Very tidy wish i could get mine that neat damn antec 300

The Antec 300 is a breeze to get tidy, so long as you take time and prepare it with an extra hole or 2...

To the OP - nice work so far, just take your time and you will make a fine job of it.

BogEyes · 3 Feb 2010 at 18:24

To the guy above^^

I've got an antec 300 case, with a coolermaster psu. Its like your corsair one in the when the writing is the right way up, the cables are on the left hand side of the case, and the fan is pointing the bottom of the case.

I've flipped the psu because I assumed having the psu fan exhausting air out the top would be better? But now the cable management has sort of gone out the window because they are on the wrong side of the case, make sense?

Basically, should I have the psu like yours instead of upside down? I seem to think I've been abit silly putting it in upside down now!

Diggsy · 3 Feb 2010 at 18:47

borgia said:
To the guy above^^

I've got an antec 300 case, with a coolermaster psu. Its like your corsair one in the when the writing is the right way up, the cables are on the left hand side of the case, and the fan is pointing the bottom of the case.

I've flipped the psu because I assumed having the psu fan exhausting air out the top would be better? But now the cable management has sort of gone out the window because they are on the wrong side of the case, make sense?

Basically, should I have the psu like yours instead of upside down? I seem to think I've been abit silly putting it in upside down now!

The PSU does not exhaust air up top, that fan on the side of the PSU is an intake. It exhausts the heat out the rear of the case.

You actually have yours the way Antec recommend, but I think there is more than enough space below it for it to breathe, and the system I installed has been running just fine with it that way for months now.

I would say if you want to reverse it for cable management, go for it. There are plenty of others on the web running it like in my pic too, and to my knowledge no-one has reported any issues yet.