Quick Question About Wiring Cables

[Waylay00]

Is it safe to run wires behind my mobo? Reason being is because I have all of my fans hooked up to a controller and it looks pretty messy.

 

[Trashman]

I've built some systems with the cables running underneath motherboard, there is a small gap between board and standoffs, as long as space was ok, not crammin cables, i never thought there is or would be a problem.
Good question though...like i said, i don't see a problem, but maybe someone will say otherwise.

 

[Waylay00]

anyone else?

 

[Zepper]

The only danger of that would be if one or more of the 'trees' (jargon for the little pins that stick up out of the solder) penetrated a cable and caused a short or other bad behavior. You can either clear-cut the trees (needs a side-cutter for the best results as diagonal cutters always leave some pointy remains behind) or put a sheet of some type of insulating protector between the cables and the mobo or tack the cables to the bottom of the case with hot glue (clean the metal off with alcohol and warm the metal (think hair dryer on high) pre-gluing for best results - cold metal sucks the heat out of the hot glue so fast it never gets a grip) just to be safe. I used to work in a wet lab and the test tubes came with stiff plastic sheets between layers of tubes - that stuff worked great for this type of thing.
.bh.

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