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BrokenWall
04-26-2006, 06:26 PM
apparently due to the fact that i have to much stuff in my case, i cant ever seem to keep the cabling nice.

3 Hard Drives
Floppy
2 Optical Drives
X-Fi Front Panel

in both my V1000 & PC60 the cabling always comes out being ass, and causing heating issues.


http://brokenwall.net/pics/computer/case/pc60.jpg
http://brokenwall.net/pics/computer/case/v1000.jpg
BrokenWall
04-26-2006, 06:48 PM
i need a case that i wont have an issue like this
Jokester_wild
04-26-2006, 07:14 PM
none of those cases have issues, its all about thinking of ways of hiding and laying out cables properly.
BrokenWall
04-27-2006, 12:40 AM
its kinda hard to hide over 3ft of extra power supply cable
vitaminc
04-27-2006, 02:36 PM
its kinda hard to hide over 3ft of extra power supply cable

If you are hardcore enough, you could always cut and solder to shorten the cable by 3 ft. :p
jopers1986
04-27-2006, 02:44 PM
can you not slip them behind the mobo tray, just cut a very small slit so that they can pop behind , this is what i do.

and in the second case, is that a v1000? if it is, i have that case, and i don't have a prob, in al fairness, i don't have quite as much stuff as you, but even still, no prob hiding cables in the bottom section - under psu, under HDDs behind HDDs behind mobo, up round the back of the case for drive acess, not through the made holes? any help at all? or am i'm just chatting crap? :S
BrokenWall
04-27-2006, 09:50 PM
well me and my dad are gonna cut up the v1000, add some fans to the side panel, and make it more usful for running cable
einCe
04-28-2006, 02:44 AM
pull off the other side panel and string it through the brace behind the mobo tray, i did this in a thermaltake tsunami, not the roomiest case
BrokenWall
04-28-2006, 05:35 AM
it wouldnt be so bad if my sli-dr's first PCIe 16x slot was up more more slot
masterofpuppets
04-28-2006, 08:10 AM
it wouldnt be so bad if my sli-dr's first PCIe 16x slot was up more more slot
I know what you mean, on PC-60/65, the HD cage just gets in the way of the PCI-E power. If the slot were higher, it could be tucked into the floppy cage or hidden behind it. Pretty annoying.
BrokenWall
04-28-2006, 02:40 PM
well tomorrow we are modding the V1000
and gonna get some nice airflow mods, i will take many pics
BrokenWall
04-29-2006, 09:22 PM
here she is finished, just gonna get me some fan grills and clean up the edges a bit but yep!

http://brokenwall.net/pics/computer/case/v1000fans.jpg
NickS
04-29-2006, 09:45 PM
its kinda hard to hide over 3ft of extra power supply cable

You're LUCKY. Lengthy cables = more slack to route them behind things, bays, behind mobo's, etc.

THAT is how you get it clean. It's all in the routing imo. Getting adhesive cable clamps to help w/routing might help, too.


Nick
metro.cl
04-29-2006, 09:57 PM
your case looks great to me :)

why would you make holes behind the mobo?
MeltedDuron
04-30-2006, 01:31 AM
your case looks great to me :)

why would you make holes behind the mobo?
As to route cables behind the motherboard. As an example, heres a rig I built for my sister (Didn't have the time to do hardcore cable tidying, so the 20 and 4 pin cables look a bit crummy:slap:)
http://m0px.net/meltedduron/IMG_0094.JPG