Post your awesome cable management skills!!

[JSLIM]

here is my attempt. has changed since though.

decent I think.

 

[Bateluer]

With my current system, orderly cabling isn't possible.

Its a mid-tower case with 3 DVD-ROM/RW drives, 1 IDE hdd, 2 SATA drives, an XP120 HSF w/ 120mm fan, dual slot 6800GT, and 4 80mm fans. In a nutshell, the case in jammed packed. There is barely enough room for airflow, let alone order among the cables.

My next case is going to be a full tower though, so that will make more space available.

 

[Shagga]

If you want any tips, just ask.

Cable Management at it's best.

 

[JSLIM]

this thread has become a joke.

 

[Indyboy2]

This is my second attempt,i swapped out that seasonic power supply for the ocz .This is as good as it gets.About the two power supplys the seasonic is by far a much quieter p/supply and is almost just as stable it came down to looks for me and the ocz looks better and the 12v rail is rock solid
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/indyboy58/detail?.dir=/90ed&.dnm=e381.jpg&.src=ph
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/indyboy58/detail?.dir=/90ed&.dnm=592e.jpg&.src=ph

 

[furballi]

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: Topweasel
Terminators, He is using SCSI (this a guess good guess but a guess).

We have a winnar! The lighted thingamabobs are the SCSI terminators. The plump rounded cables attached to the PCI cards are the SCSI cables (bought them that way at Newegg). They just sneak up behind the drives where you can't see them.

Sorry for the confusion!

 

[13Gigatons]

Originally posted by: anarchyreigns
Mine: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/mpcurl98/album?.dir=/a87b

Holy crap that makes me nervous just looking at it on the ledge like that...TAKE IT DOWN HURRAY BEFORE IT FALLS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[suszterpatt]

Some neat stuff in here




My half-assed attempt

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: ReMeDy{WcS}

Originally posted by: Jeff7181
My mess

That's a mess. But, it's a mess of share lazyness. You can easily formulate management out of what you have there.

1) Route the Power supply 20/24 pin cable under the motherboard to come under the Power socket. There is alot of slack, and that can be hidden under the PCB itslef.

2.) Your SATA cables can also be routed on the under edge of the motherboard to meet the SATA header.

3.) Your USB/PCI header can be routed in parellel with the PCI slots to meet the header. Or, it can be routed right under the Audigy card and hooked back using an adhesive and zip ties to the PCI slot itself to secure it to meet the header.

4.) If those beige cables in the front of the chassis by the 80mm fans are Frontal USB/Firewire/Audio cables, that you're not going to use. Then zip tie them to the HDD cage up above threading the zip tie to the holes in the cage. As a harness.

*shakes head*

JMO....

You're right... laziness. Things have changed since then though and when I get my new case fans I'll organize things better... however, the 20 pin connector won't fit behind the motherboard.

 

[RadSoftware]

Small splite tube organizers from Radio Shack work wonders...

 

[djnsmith7]

Originally posted by: tasburrfoot78362
You have to get pin extractors to remove the ends, then you sleeve the cables, and then you put the ends back on.
Tas.

That's not entirely true. Thanks to the information in this thread, I came across the product listed below which I'm going to purchase & use to rearrange my cabling this weekend. This stuff looks really cool.

http://www.svc.com/sleeving-flexo-wrap-pet-sleeving.html

 

[anarchyreigns]

Originally posted by: 13Gigatons

Originally posted by: anarchyreigns
Mine: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/mpcurl98/album?.dir=/a87b

Holy crap that makes me nervous just looking at it on the ledge like that...TAKE IT DOWN HURRAY BEFORE IT FALLS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, it's safe now. Couldn't find good place to take a good shot of the case...the thing is a bitch to photograph.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

I wouldn't ever buy anything from SVC again... I got ripped off by their tools. But I got new tools, and I got to do this. Here are some pics:

Right side
secondary finished, and primary PSU is next
Left side
Tas.

 

[RollWave]

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

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

Onix Rocket speakers eh? How do you like that Ring Radiator Tweeter?

 

[imported_t0ast]

Just finished my first build. Still working on cable management, but so far it isn't terrible, IMHO.

http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/3111/case25im.jpg

It's a little hard to see (purple color, bottom right, deep into the case), but the case I chose (Antec CS600) features a nice little cable management rack to string the longer cables through. It made things MUCH easier

 

[FrustratedUser]

Mine looks like complete sh1t. I blame the stupid design of PS and other components. Looks like they are not made to fit together nicely.

 

[Lockout]

Originally posted by: djnsmith7

Originally posted by: tasburrfoot78362
You have to get pin extractors to remove the ends, then you sleeve the cables, and then you put the ends back on.
Tas.

That's not entirely true. Thanks to the information in this thread, I came across the product listed below which I'm going to purchase & use to rearrange my cabling this weekend. This stuff looks really cool.

http://www.svc.com/sleeving-flexo-wrap-pet-sleeving.html

Once you get it, could you give a little review of it here? It looks rather nifty.