I have it dealt with by virtue of having realized I was going to have to move the hard drives entirely into the part of the case that was designed to house them, which is a movable casing at the bottom. I had initially tried to put one of the four up inside the area normally occupied by floppy drives or other similar devices (and below where the external capable section of that part was), but the tail end of the video card was just too close for that. Unfortunately, I had busted the cable before I realized I had a problem. Sometimes, ya just learn the hard way...

Now that all 4 drives are down below, the issue is resolved, and the cables, while still unwieldy, are at least capable of being managed without disconnecting themselves or getting broken. There's still not a lot of extra space there, but it will have to do for now.

Dang!!! Almost forgot - any recommendations for freebie performance testing software? Also, given I have the Q9550 cpu on the Asus P5Q3 Deluxe WiFi AP @n mobo, any chance for viable overclocking? If not, no big deal, as I'll probably be drooling over the performance of a 2.83GHz quad-core as compared to my existing single core P4 at 2.66GHz.

Steve
(aka sgmunson)


Quote Originally Posted by D_A View Post
I take it you've sorted that cable management issue?