New rebuild, cable management still sucks

Subliminal Aura · 17 Feb 2012 at 00:32

It's no better than my previous build and I'm just losing hope...

Any advice ?

Before

After

Subliminal Aura · 17 Feb 2012 at 00:53

No space behind the panel...

I just moved her from one old case to another... If I start treating her with a new PSU and case she'll start getting feisty

PSU can pop at any time but it's just a backup server hence the disks. Maybe a cheap fractal arc + new PSU would sort it out

Subliminal Aura · 17 Feb 2012 at 08:13

Actually, that might work let me also try to find rounded ide cables

Will have to do this late tonight again

Subliminal Aura · 17 Feb 2012 at 09:46

Cyanide said:
KILL IT WITH FIRE!

Show some respect to your veteran elders dude ... :mad:

She's 10 years old, fought life and limb for our country and still manages a respectable 500mbps over the network :eek:

pastymuncher said:
Unfortunately due to the abysmal location of the 20/24 pin socket and without buying a new case, no matter what you do it's still going to look bad.

Subliminal Aura · 17 Feb 2012 at 09:47

Ohlawll said:
As said before there is not really much you can do ther mate

Challenge accepted

I'll work on it tonight - I've got some ideas

Subliminal Aura · 17 Feb 2012 at 10:21

The Deuce said:
spaghetti junction...lol

Trust me, it's a vast improvement to how it was...

(updated the OP with pics)

Subliminal Aura · 21 Feb 2012 at 13:02

Essexraptor said:
Apart from the unholy mess of cables - what is the actual spec of the server Sub?

ie MB, CPU, RAM and NIC? PCI add in cards for your IDE drives

thanks

I have a similiar clapped out Athlon XP build and I'm interested in how you've got the extra drives in on that old? MB

It's an Abit NF7, XP2500+ and 1.5gb of RAM running Ubuntu something or another.

4 IDE drives running from the motherboard

PCI cards

Cheap gigabit realtek ethernet card
Firwire card - Not really using it
Promise PCI IDE card 1 IDE port used - Potential to add 3 more IDE drives
2 port SATA card (There's a 4 port card on MM going for near a fiver which I was tempted with)

The only issue with the machine is the PSU - so get yourself a decent unit. I had to shift drives around to balance the power delivery.

Anyway I'll update this thread with new pics that should surprise