Post your awesome cable management skills!!

overst33r

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hey i wanna see some creative cable management, post some pics or links to other pics of neat cable management. I am getting a new case soon and i would like to get some ideas/ (totally copying) for my cables. Thanks.


ps: i posted in general hware instead of cases/cooling because its more active so get off my back!
 

Lonyo

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I will do on Monday/Tuesday when I get my new heatsink and IDE card.
Time for some serious rearranging I think.
 

mechBgon

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Dated, but...

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Someone once asked me if those were wireless hard drives :evil:
 

neutralizer

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Originally posted by: mechBgon
Dated, but...

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Someone once asked me if those were wireless hard drives :evil:

very awesome. did you sleeve them yourself? my solution is more practical and less aesthetic. I use cable ties and duct tape.
 

mechBgon

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Ooops, I am just not doing well with links today :eek: Here we go: http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/mechBgon/interior1.jpg

If you look up high in that photo, you can see that a bunch of cables go through a round hole up there (well, maybe you can't see it, oops). I was able to stash unused cables behind the mobo tray and also route others, including the main power cable, back that way too. You can do something similar on your SLK3000-B... there's a gap between the mobo tray and the 5.25" drive cage, and you can slip cables between them and route them down behind the HDD rack, including the main ATX cable if your mobo's layout encourages this. I don't have my digicam at home or I'd post some pics. Stashing unused cables back there will tidy things up too.

The PSU sits on a little shelf, and there's a gap at the rear end of it. You can route cables around the rear of the PSU and out that hole. I routed my 4-pin ATX12V cable that way since the fitting is near the upper-rear corner of the motherboard, and you can route fan cables that way too (take both side panels off to get at this easier).
 

mechBgon

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Originally posted by: neutralizer
Originally posted by: mechBgon
Dated, but...

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Someone once asked me if those were wireless hard drives :evil:

very awesome. did you sleeve them yourself? my solution is more practical and less aesthetic. I use cable ties and duct tape.
I did sleeve them myself, in fact I double-sleeved them :Q

For those of you who'd like to double-sleeve stuff, running the sleeving back down its own inside is probably your best bet. Melt the sleeving pretty thoroughly together at one end and use something long, thin and stiff to push the melted end down the inside of the sleeving until it's even with the other end. I did it the unenlightened way and it was a lot of work. I don't think I'll put myself through that again ;)
 

YOyoYOhowsDAjello

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With HT wiring like this right next to my computer, I've given up on keeping things neat :p

Let me see if I can find a picture of my old attempt before I gave up...

EDIT: I gave up looking for the picture too :p
 

Fullmetal Chocobo

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I'm not yet done with my wiring, but I will tell you this much. Don't get cheap tools! I had some from SVC, and the damn things broke on me, so now I'm having to get new tools and wait even longer to finish it up. It sucks. I'll let you know after I get my new tools as far as recommendations...
Tas.
 

BOLt

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When I get my PSU early next week I will connect everything and then post.

My AMD64 Rig:

AMD Athlon 64 3000+ CPU
DFI LANParty UT nF4 Ultra-D Motherboard
(512MB x 2) Crucial Ballistix PC3200 DDR RAM
BFG GeForce 6800 GT OC PCI-e GPU
Maxtor DiamondMax 10 200GB SATA HD
Dell UltraSharp 1905FP 19" LCD
Logitech Z-2300 2.1 Speakers
Lite-On SOHD-16P9S CD/DVD-ROM Drive
Sony 3.5" Floppy Drive
Antec SmartPower 2.0 400W PSU
Antec Super LANBoy
Logitech MX510 Performance Gaming Mouse
Generic Keyboard

(Plus many twist-ties and a few rubber bands.)
 

hurubi

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Is sleveing the wires hard. I mean how are you suppose to get the end plugs into the sleevs its too big. I know its a noob question.
 

Fullmetal Chocobo

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You have to get pin extractors to remove the ends, then you sleeve the cables, and then you put the ends back on.
Tas.
 

gar3555

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seems too clean, mine look way worse than that, but that's cuz I'm always taking them apart...
 

sniperruff

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i came to the conclusion that if nothing is wrong and air-flow is fine, don't mess with "re-organiziing" your cables. too many people who don't know what they're doing have shorted things out this way.
 

overst33r

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i dont know what the hell im doing, i just touch everything inside the case when the power is off and unplugged and i discharges myself, nothing has happened so far.
 

Indyboy2

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I just got done or almost done today with this one ,as you can see my cable management skills are not too good
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/indyboy58/detail?.dir=90ed&.dnm=30e5.jpg&.src=ph
3hdce dual opteron motherboard
2x246 opterons with zalman coolers
2x73 gig raptor hard drives
1024 x 4 ddr 3200 memory
x850xt with arctic cooler
seasonic s-12 600 watt
samsung dvd-rw ,and cd rom
antec titan case
sapphire theatere 550
audigy2 sound card
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I am haveing some minor problems though it seems to want to hang up in the bios screen while booting,if i unplug it wait a min it will boot fine any ideas ivr itried everything i know?