Cable Management Tips

[akseli]

Hey, I was wondering whether any of you people had any tips for cable management in an Antec Sonata. My biggest problem comes from the mile-long power-supply cables which are everywhere... apart from that I have most of the other cables tamed ... I'll have pics up soon.

 

[Peter D]

I'm not familiar with the Sonata, but perhaps you can tuck some cables behind the motherboard tray. If not, you can tie them up with elastics and zip ties and tuck them into the optical drives bay.

 

[cubanx]

Akseli check my SIG for Pic's of my UV Sonata. I used UV sleeving for everything and removed all cables I dont use like front USB/Firewire/Sound. I used Rounded cables for IDE and Floppy. I just kept the ATX power cable as close to the PSU except the end that actually cconnects to the board. If you don't want to take the hour or two to sleeve cables you can do the zip ties that Vegetto recommended.

Cubanx

 

[Dman877]

Originally posted by: Vegetto
I'm not familiar with the Sonata, but perhaps you can tuck some cables behind the motherboard tray. If not, you can tie them up with elastics and zip ties and tuck them into the optical drives bay.

Unfortunately the sonata does not use a mobo tray and the right-side panel doesn't come off so putting wires behind there is impossible. I tie mine up in the 2 5.25 drive bays I'm not using, you can also hide the cables behind the 3.5/hd bays. I'll take some pics if someone wants to host em, my case is pretty neat, simple system though, 1 optical and 1 hd.

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: Dman877

Originally posted by: Vegetto
I'm not familiar with the Sonata, but perhaps you can tuck some cables behind the motherboard tray. If not, you can tie them up with elastics and zip ties and tuck them into the optical drives bay.

Unfortunately the sonata does not use a mobo tray and the right-side panel doesn't come off so putting wires behind there is impossible. I tie mine up in the 2 5.25 drive bays I'm not using, you can also hide the cables behind the 3.5/hd bays. I'll take some pics if someone wants to host em, my case is pretty neat, simple system though, 1 optical and 1 hd.

Host
Just please keep em under 800x600, I hate scrolling
If I can get my hands on a digital camera I'll take pics of my Sonata. I used the zip-tie thing that came on the ATX cable to tie back some wires to the support bar at the top.

 

[Dman877]

Pic1
Pic2
Pic3 is a bit fuzzy

They are low rez but they're still big, dunno whats up with that, I had to use my dad's camera, they took mine to Cali. It kinda helps having all the connectors on the right side on the K8V. It's kinda hard to see but in the fuzzy pick you can see how I zip-tied the extra psu stuff to the side of the drive bays. If you have sausage fingers, that will be hard to do.

 

[MDE]

Nice Dman, I just had a :light: go off when I saw your hard drives (I mounted mine the other way around).
Here's an idea of what I did with the ATX cable on my NF7-S. I tried to tuck it between the back ports and the fan and between the PSU and motherboard tray.

EDIT: Anyone have a definative diagram of how to hook up the front ports on an NF7-S?

EDIT2: If you want to mount SATA drives backwards like in Dman877's pic BE VERY CAREFUL. Take it slow as I almost snapped the SATA connector off of my Raptor. 90 degree angled cables would be a nice thing to have in this situation.

 

[albundee]

by far, thee best wiring ive seen done is here:

http://www.moddershq.net/guides.asp?guideid=12

anyone tried it?

 

[MDE]

Looks nice, but as mentioned, the Sonata's right side panel doesn't come off, so we can't hide anything back there.

Welcome to the Forums albundee!

 

[albundee]

thanks! been readin the forums for a long time now... do Lian Li right side cases come off? i really wanna do this on my next rig!

 

[utahraptor]

After seeing those pictures I spent 2+ hours fixing my cables. It looks nice now, but now as nice as that. I was not able to hide every cable, hehe. I removed the audio cable from the cdrom because it was too short to hide. Was that bad? Also, I have a UV reactive motherboard and black light cold cathodes so it still looks cool. The IDE cables are round and UV reactive to.

 

[albundee]

those pictures are inspiring (dont forget to go to the next pages on the lower right hand, kinda hard to see the link)... hehe any pix?

 

[MDE]

As most who have already posted in this thread just skip down to the bottom, I'll post my edit from above:

If you want to mount SATA hard drives backwards like in Dman877's pic BE VERY CAREFUL. Take it slow as I almost snapped the SATA connector off of my Raptor. 90 degree angled cables would be a nice thing to have in this situation.

The SATA connector can't have any wires behind it at all or else it'll run out of room to go backwards. If you do try it go slowly and make sure there's enough clearance for the connector back there. It works, but barely.

 

[Dman877]

Originally posted by: MDE
Nice Dman, I just had a :light: go off when I saw your hard drives (I mounted mine the other way around).
Here's an idea of what I did with the ATX cable on my NF7-S. I tried to tuck it between the back ports and the fan and between the PSU and motherboard tray.

My NF7 is in a 3700AMB, similar layout, I ran the atx cable just like you did, then ran it over along/inside the rail under the psu, worked pretty well.