Your PC ATM

[crtecha]

I guess I better clean it all up today. Ill post some pics tonight and you will all see beauty

 

[DaveK]

Still a lot better than my case lol, no matter how hard I try I always fail, dam cable management.

 

[crtecha]

What kind of case do you have?

 

[DaveK]

What kind of case do you have?

Antec 900 lol, I thought about putting the rear exhaust fan wire under the mobo, but that requires taking the mobo off In a week or two though I'm going to get the tools out and make a few holes, can only do so much though

 

[crtecha]

Same case as me. If you'd like I can make a diagram of how I have my cable management after I finish it tonight.

 

[DaveK]

Well I'm off to give cable management another shot, need to sort out some wires since I took out my old IDE drive (wish I had a SATA optical drive ) and when I put my new F1 drive in the wires were a mess.

 

[crtecha]

I picked up a 22x lightscribe for a under 30 bones back in the winter. Works awesome and I can just plug it up to my external sata hard drive enclosure

 

[Thrackan]

Hmm eliminating the last IDE drive would be nice indeed... Might look up a good DVD/RW drive with SATA instead.

 

[theorw]

Yeah I gotta few loose wires hanging about.

You should have seen it before

I did...It was nasty...But u made a hoe right...!
Improved a lot but keep trying!!!

 

[ChaoticAtmosphere]

I guess I better clean it all up today. Ill post some pics tonight and you will all see beauty

Do it up!!!

I did...It was nasty...But u made a hoe right...!
Improved a lot but keep trying!!!

 

[BulgarianBoy92]

dont make me post my older case

 

[DaveK]

So I just spent 2 bloody hours doin cable management and made a complete hash of it lol, though on the plus side I put the USB and rear exhaust fan wires under the mobo and out of the way

Before:

After:

I should have left the DVD drive up the top...

I hate IDE and I hate Molex lol. I'm assuming a SATA optical drive uses SATA power connections? lol

 

[MRCL]

dont make me post my older case

Do it, I dare you!

See, I even post the rig I had shortly after joining TPU and being converted to a techie with actual knowledge

I'm assuming a SATA optical drive uses SATA power connections? lol

Lol yes they do

 

[DaveK]

I'm so getting the Corsair HX750W or HX850W in the future lol dam this non-modular wired mess. Corsair may make nice PSUs but these sleeved wires are a pain in the ass lol.

 

[MRCL]

I'm so getting the Corsair HX750W or HX850W in the future lol dam this non-modular wired mess. Corsair may make nice PSUs but these sleeved wires are a pain in the ass lol.

Not if you use every wire tho If my Corsair was modluar it wouldn't make a difference at all, I'm literally using every single cable.

 

[crtecha]

Once I get home ill clean it all up and post a work log

 

[DaveK]

Not if you use every wire tho If my Corsair was modluar it wouldn't make a difference at all, I'm literally using every single cable.

Well if I had a PCI-e card and a SATA optical drive I wouldn't be using the 2 molex cables or the sata one, just the 24pin, 8pin, 1 SATA and 2 PCI-e cables. Would be much better...mmm nice cable managment

Once I get home ill clean it all up and post a work log

Work logs FTW, inspire me lol

 

[MRCL]

Well if I had a PCI-e card and a SATA optical drive I wouldn't be using the 2 molex cables or the sata one, just the 24pin, 8pin, 1 SATA and 2 PCI-e cables. Would be much better...mmm nice cable managment

I'm using the 24pin, 8pin, four 6pin pci-e, three SATA and two molex. For cable management purposes, I use one SATA for the two HDDs, and one for the DVD drive. And one molex for the pump, the other for the fan controller. Latter however could be reduced to one wire if I'm feeling to do some management.

Damn what a shitload of wires.

 

[n0tiert]

If you have Vista 64-bit, why not fill the rest of those RAM bays?

i will m8, i will just needed to save some bucks since my tv broke last week..... finally it arrived today ...... waaaaaaahooooo 40" samsung wide full HD ..... if my wife is out the house, i´m going to connect my rig to it.... haha

 

[groothof22]

lol

 

[crtecha]

I tried hooking up my 52" this weekend to play some grid but it kept crashing I could do basically everything but game.....




maybe i did something wrong??

 

[theorw]

This is the pc of a friend that bought a new case and needed my help...I did my best in half an hour but the cable management of this case is worst than anything i ve seen so far...What do u think?

 

[CyberDruid]

So I just spent 2 bloody hours doin cable management and made a complete hash of it lol, though on the plus side I put the USB and rear exhaust fan wires under the mobo and out of the way

Before:

http://img.techpowerup.org/090518/Image2340.jpg

After:

http://img.techpowerup.org/090518/Image2346521.jpg

I should have left the DVD drive up the top...

I hate IDE and I hate Molex lol. I'm assuming a SATA optical drive uses SATA power connections? lol

Yes it will...but the SATA power aren't much prettier...but it does help to have all the drives clustered since the SATA power plugs from the PSU are usually a few inches from each other on the cabling.

I got a 900 when they first came out and my first attempt was pretty much the same as yours. Then I made a nice round hole in the mobo tray/panel right beside the PSU right where the cabling comes out of the PSU housing. A hole just large enough to fit the 24pin plug through sideways...

Then I made a hole the size of the PSU fan right where that would be on the case bottom panel if I flipped the PSU. I put some tall case feet on the bottom for ventilation. Now all of the wires from the PSU just route through that hole.

Obviously you will need a few other holes strategically placed. This is easy to do by tracing the mobo edge with a pencil (lightly so it wipes right off later) and then making tic marks where the 24 Pin, 8 pin, sata leads and any other cabling needs acces. The hole should split the line traced around the mobo so it is half hidden. Route the cables first then install the mobo. You will still have wiggle room.

I line the holes with thin grommets or strips of small c-channel but other people use electrical tape or you can just sand the hole until it is no longer sharp and use nothing. By planning out the "layers" of cables coming out the back of the mobo panel you can use nylon conduit clamps and secure them with screws into un used threaded holes or make your own. Or use tape or cable ties.

Go for it man

 

[Studabaker]

here is the system today, believe it or not i've actually put quite a bit of work into cable management lol

 

[Cold Storm]

Yeah, Cable Management is a b1tch!!!

Here's one of my first rig... Good old Dec. 2007!!!