Routing front panel cables?

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Unless this is just a budget case issue, how do poeple route the scatty front panel cables? the ones for USB ports and the power/reset buttons?

They are thin, spindly wires that are miles long.

I have the Aercool QS-180 mATX case.
 
Cable ties are a great thing for cable management. Attach the cables to drive cages etc to keep them taught. Quite a lot of modern cases now feature rubber grommets for pushing cables through, helps keep things tidy too.
 
Thats a particularly horrid case for routing.

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I'd be tempted to feed them in the front most hole, to get them into the back, where you can hide most of it, then poke them up through the CPU backplate hole, dangling down, plug them in, them pull them back as much as possible from the backplate hole, to hide the slack in the rear.
 
Yea, it's not amazing.

Managed to route the power fairly well.

I need to attach the USB3 cable and shuffle some stuff about so I'll have another go at routing those front panel wires.

I've got plenty of small cable ties, I'm sure I'll figure something out :)
 
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