How's the cable management for a noob?

camoxiong · Mar 10, 2012

20mmrain said:
What you could do.... is cut cable management wholes and route the cables behind the motherboard Tray. You could then get grommet edging for the sharp edges on the wholes to give it a finished look.
You didn't do too bad for your first time. Everyone goes through a learning phase with this.
The other way if you don't want to cut wholes.... is to cable sleeve your power supply. Make the wires uniform and nice looking. If you can't hide them this will help!

Or just buy a cheap case with cable management wholes in it. They do sell them like this one.....http://www.nzxt.com/new/products/classic_series/beta_evo

About 30 Bucks but it will allow you to hide everything if your that concerned with it. Nice first job though bud way to go!!!

I wish I can cut the case, but it's a school project computer.

Arctucas · Mar 10, 2012

camoxiong said:
I wish I can cut the case, but it's a school project computer.

You are not even going to consider getting a handful of the cable tie mounts I suggested?

trickson · Mar 10, 2012

You need cable ties and to rout your cables behind things such as the MB tray. I just done some work on mine today and this is what it looks like now.View attachment 46134
View attachment 46136
Even with this case as it is I have limited wire site, Yes you can see them but it looks far cleaner now. took one hour to do.

20mmrain · Mar 11, 2012

camoxiong said:
I wish I can cut the case, but it's a school project computer.

Ahh didn't see that..... well the bad news is for everyone sometimes we run across things that are just not perfect. But for what you had to work with you did a great job!!!

theonedub · Mar 11, 2012

trickson said:
You need cable ties and to rout your cables behind things such as the MB tray. I just done some work on mine today and this is what it looks like now.http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=46134&d=1331409816
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=46136&d=1331409846
Even with this case as it is I have limited wire site, Yes you can see them but it looks far cleaner now. took one hour to do.

Time for a good dusting and wipe down.

trickson · Mar 11, 2012

theonedub said:
Time for a good dusting and wipe down.

I did what I could I am so tired now.

camoxiong · Mar 11, 2012

Arctucas said:
You are not even going to consider getting a handful of the cable tie mounts I suggested?

It's the weekend, I'll do it on Monday.

camoxiong · Mar 11, 2012

20mmrain said:
Ahh didn't see that..... well the bad news is for everyone sometimes we run across things that are just not perfect. But for what you had to work with you did a great job!!!

Thanks.

xBruce88x · Mar 11, 2012

hmm... what are the specs of that rig you built? Me tinkering with comps in high school quickly led to me being Tech Support for the whole school my Jr. and Sr. years lol.

camoxiong · Mar 12, 2012

xBruce88x said:
hmm... what are the specs of that rig you built? Me tinkering with comps in high school quickly led to me being Tech Support for the whole school my Jr. and Sr. years lol.

We're using a AMD Athlon @ 3.0ghz, 4gb ddr3 1333mhz, WD Caviar Blue 250gb, Antec Green Series 380w, and a Antec 300 case.

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Processor	AMD Phenom ii 1045t x6 @ 3.5Ghz OC
Motherboard	ASRock 970 Extreme3 R2.0 AM3+
Cooling	CM Hyper 212 EVO Push Pull
Memory	CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) Black 1600Mhz
Video Card(s)	Sapphire 7950 Dual-X
Storage	Samsung EVO 250gb SSD/Samsung 500gb 7200 rpm/WD Cavirar Green 1TB
Display(s)	Acer H236HLbid IPS
Case	NZXT Gamma (Powder Coated Champion White)
Audio Device(s)	Creative Lab SB0460
Power Supply	NZXT HALE82 V2 550W
Software	Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit SP1
Benchmark Scores	Vtec

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Motherboard	eVGA Z390 Dark
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Power Supply	Seasonic Prime PX-1300
Mouse	Logitech
Keyboard	Logitech
Software	Win7 Ultimate x64 SP1

System Name	Ryzen TUF.
Processor	AMD Ryzen7 3700X
Motherboard	Asus TUF X570 Gaming Plus
Cooling	Noctua
Memory	Gskill RipJaws 3466MHz
Video Card(s)	Asus TUF 1650 Super Clocked.
Storage	CB 1T M.2 Drive.
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Audio Device(s)	Denon AVR-S750H
Power Supply	Corsair TX750
Mouse	Optical
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Cooling	Custom Full System Water cooling Loop
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Storage	Samsung SSD EVO 120GB - Samsung SSD EVO 500GB
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Case	Bitfenix Prodigy
Power Supply	Corsair AX760 Modular PSU
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Motherboard	MSI X399 MEG Creation \|\| AsRock OE
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Memory	32GB (4x8GB) Corsair Vengeance PRO RGB DDR4 3000\|\| 2x16GB Corsair DDR4
Video Card(s)	Vega 64 EK FC\|\| Intel Iris Xe
Storage	250gb WD Black NVMe & (2) 2TB Intel 660p NVMe \|\| 2TB Corsair MP600 Pro
Display(s)	34" Dell Ultrasharp U3415W
Case	CaseLabs Merlin SM8 \|\| Aluminum Unibody
Power Supply	Corsair HX1000
Mouse	Corsair Harpoon Wireless RGB
Keyboard	Corsair Strafe RGB w/ Cherry MX Silent
Software	Windows 10 Pro x64 \|\| WIndows 11 Pro x64
Benchmark Scores	WCG & F@H Only

How's the cable management for a noob?

camoxiong

Arctucas

trickson

OH, I have such a headache

20mmrain

theonedub

habe fidem

trickson

OH, I have such a headache

camoxiong

camoxiong

xBruce88x

camoxiong

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