Got bored so I tidied up my case

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Been off work for the last few days and got bored so I did what any geek would and tidied up my case.

I bought a shorty IDE cable and one of those 'rounded but still a ribbon at the drive end' cables to get rid of the huge IDE cable loops.

Then, to sort out all the power cable loops I made my own drive power cable, it was going well until I fitted the last molex and realised I hadn't sleeved the last section.

Then I sleeved most of the visible wires, still 3 fans and the cold cathodes to do but I had to leave something for the bank holiday plus at some point I'll try oversleeving the black PSU sleeving.

Still need to do something about all the wires, I will probaly end up drilling some holes into the motherboard tray to route some right out of the way and I'll just have to be more aggressive with the rest to get them hidden.
The empty bays at the top are particularly messy but some cable ties should take care of that.

(left the dusting for another day)

That PCI blower/exhaust is supporting the graphics card, the screw holes don't line up properly so just in case the screw ever shakes itself out the blower wil stop it from dropping too much.

Some before shots would probably have been handy to illustrate the improvement but trust me, it was a mess in there.

 

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I know what you mean, all the times I've tried in the past I've ended up doing a half arsed job because I got bored or lost interest.

It's a coolermaster stacker, the original one.

 

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Your carpet's horrible

Fluff_eei

I know, will be going back to a bare floor before christmas so my eyes wont have to be assaulted by the nastiness.

 

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Waw, have you started tidying the cables up yet? lol

Yep, make sure you post some pics of it when you've finished! tee-hee

Looks good mate, except the cables are awfully messy, but that cant be helped sometimes

Nowhere to hide them? tuck them away?

I said it wasn't done but it is an improvement on what it was, plus whenever I tuck the wires away the little buggers tend to pop back out
To do it properly I will drill some holes in the motherboard tray and get some cable clips/ties in the upper bays/on the case roof/on the othe side of the drive cage.

 

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The case is "so big" there isn't any place to tuck it behind anywhere. Mines a mess too. Area in the bottom has nothing so mess doesn't matter, where the drives are are fairly neat with data/power off to one side so the airflow isn't restricted that much.. (old picture without the Ninja, SB removed)

That's the stacker 810 isn't it?
Thats's a lot like mine used to look, I've tried to do the same thing - where air is coming in I've tried to keep it tidy/clear.

Koolpcs - yup, I picked up some of the sticky cable hook things from b&q the other day, and am using 2 at the top of the case, they are dead handy but one of them keeps dropping the cable so needs replacing or perhaps cram another cable in to keep it nice and tight.