My cable management is so bad I can’t close my case but I don’t care
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Unpopular opinion, but I just get a solid side panel and do minimal to no cable management. I don’t care about rgb or if the insides look pretty.
Steer clear of the fans and it’s all good.
Personally I hate RGB. It gives me a headache
Yeah I don’t get it, don’t you want the only light be coming from the lamp and the monitor?
Imagine if cinemas had RBG on every seat.
It’ll work, but in a few years those cables will be full of dust.
I don’t see a problem here.
PS: My opinion on PC innards was formed during the reign of IDE cables.
Mmmmmmmm… ketchup and mustard 🤤
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Just shove the excess cabling into the 5.25" Bay area so you can shut the case
Full of my hard drive and SSD :/
I think that’s the 3.5" Bay you’re referring to. The 2 cd/dvd drive bays at the top should be big enough to cram the wires in
CD drive still in there just not plugged in. But good idea I can just yank it out
I haven’t looked in years, but you used to be able to get covers or dust filters that popped into 5.25 bays for a few bucks.
Also, those cables are flat, so you might be able to fold them in half and put them under the cd drive, but above the storage drives
Feels
Ah, my old WoW gaming computer!
Right age. It’s my 2010 gaming rig turned server.
I love it
I can tell this isn’t a prebuilt because your PSU isn’t a sus nondescript metal box.
Yeah, though as someone who has a thermaltake psu - depending on the model and sku, it might as well be.
Also, the non-descript psus from SIs that also do servers tend to be pretty solid, from experience.
Well, the important thing is that the cables aren’t impeding the flow of air around the parts that get hot. It doesn’t look like they are, so I don’t see a problem.
As long as you can close the case, and the cables don’t get caught in the fans, it’s perfect inside.
Eeeewww. You know there’s a panel on the other side to hide all that, right?
I haven’t seen a case since like 2014 that didn’t have the cable management on the other side but like like OPs case doesn’t. Hard to tell from here
It don’t. I’ve had this case for awhile, got it out the dump of an office building and just kept upgrading it.
If this is a proprietary case (such as those from Dell, HP, etc), which it looks like this is, then it probably doesn’t.
My suggestion is to get even a bargain bin $50 case and switch to that quickly. Far less limiting and probably has cable management components all over.
The Montech cases are really good, come with 6 RGB fans preinstalled, and a glass side (not plexi)
Imagine telling someone around 2015, with Intel dominating CPU sales and AMD competing toe-to-toe with Nvidia in the GPU market, that you are using an Intel GPU with your AMD CPU. The times, they are a changing
I always started out “Imma hide all these cables and make the insides perfect!”
By the time I’d run all the power, fan, IDE, front case, USB, etc. I was like fuckit, I just want to get this thing running. Half-assed jammed the cables out of the way or behind the case ITX backing. Looks like shit, put the case side back on, off I go.
Lots easier now with far fewer cables to be run, cases offer more space behind the mobo for hiding cables and not the 3/4” of space they used to offer.
It was incredibly difficult to create a clean build back in the day with non-modular PSU, molex power cables, and IDE connection cables. These days it’s pretty simple, even if the back looks like trash. That’s what the back cover is for.
Honestly I can’t. Looks like those from the store.
If no side window, who cares, let it be messy! Call it your sleeper office PC.
I have a side window, and still don’t give a fuck about cable management. Pc lives under a desk, dust be damned!
Why did you put an 850W power supply in that? You could probably put a 650W that’s much nicer for the same price.
It was on sale and I thought “eh what the hell I’ll upgrade sometime down the road”
Yeah, as long as you’re pulling more than like 20% of the rated power then having a slightly overspec power supply is only going to bring you good things.
I could tell because every internal connection isn’t hot glued in place.
