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Whelp... let's just say that there's a reason I'm asking for advice on a new case to move my system into in my other thread. But the pictures of the front side in that thread kind of hide the real ugly.

Here's the zoomed out summary including the nest of cables and tube that I never prioritized organizing since I don't see it...,
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And here's a bit of a zoom-in on the most cluttered part of the case:
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If anyone's wondering: on the other side of the blue foam is the Aquaero 5 that controls all fans in the case. I added the foam to the backside as a precaution against accidental electrical shorts.
This means four fan groups, one flow sensor and seven temperature probes.

Also in the general area is tubing for the water cooling, the internal pump and reservoir, three u.2 SSDs with their respective m.2->u.2 adapters and of course power for everything.
I used to also have two 2.5" SSDs on the back, but they got migrated to my home server when I replaced them with my first u.2 SSD.

It's kind of crammed so tight that everything stays in place only partially because I did some effort at cable managing everything but also because there's nowhere for it to go...

Oh and the bright yellow-ish stuff is acoustic foam. I was hoping to minimize how audible any coil whine is, so I added some extra on top of what Fractal already put on the side panels.
 
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Here's what it used to look like. I'll post updated pictures when I finish building out the case I moved everything into.

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Here you go...

:D:p:)
 
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IMO a cable nest mangle may be hidden behind the MB and its a waste of time to untangle all, but a simple strapped & routed cable management may avoid a cable touching a hot spot on the pc back plate, but also it may be blocking a good air flow when bundled inside the front compartment, visible behind glass panel.

the reason i paid extra for a full-modular PSU because i only use 3 cables of the 6 or 7 that come in the box and i also avoided using HDD / SSD discs and their extra cables and opted for a slim NVMe .M2 stick directly to the MB

the annoying part for me in every atx case i had, are the front panel cables that come from factory by default (power, usb, audio, mic) being so many and adding to the spaghetti mess, so i bought this little ON/OFF button, if one day i get adventurous to slim down some cables! (i have usb and jack at the back of pc)

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:roll: ...may i suggest the creation of similar thread post, but... SHOW US YOUR KEYBOARD ?!

Smash Video Games GIF by HyperX

By all means, I'll make sure to clean and take an extra nice picture of my IBM Model M for you :pimp:
 
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thread already exist, im sorry... heres link ! ;)

 
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I got rid of the RGB fans which helped cut down on the cabling and reusable zip ties meant I could move things around (daisy chained fans also helped).

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