Cable routing help

unplanned bacon · Jan 27, 2014

I'm at the stage where I want to close up,but don't know how to route my cables (or how to sort PSU cables out, if anyone could help me out that would be great), I just wind up with a jumble of wires. Here's what it looks like. There's no WiFi at the moment as the only real place I could have put it is blocked by my graphics card.

So close to finishing this now, help appreciated

HiTechObsessed · Jan 27, 2014

What I do is just run them all out the back in the bottom, kind of like how you have it now, then route them through a hole closest to where they plug in. Once you get them all plugged in, you can start tying them down and cleaning up a bit better.

unplanned bacon · Jan 27, 2014

I was trying to do something similar to what you described, but the giant power cable prevents my case closing. How should I connect the back and top fans without the cables sitting on the motherboard or across the CPU cooler

HiTechObsessed · Jan 27, 2014

For the fans, can you not just plug them into the headers on the motherboard? If not, I would route them straight down with zipties and plug them in that way.

About the power cord, you should still be able to close the case, a tad bit of flex isn't the end of the world, unless you can notice it and it will bother you. Otherwise you can bundle it together at the bottom and leave just enough to carry it to the plug. This is what is done in cases with no room behind the motherboard tray.

unplanned bacon · Jan 27, 2014

HiTechObsessed :

Back is Molex and the top one is a 3 pin connection

HiTechObsessed · Jan 27, 2014

Yeah I would run the molex straight down along the back of the case and connect it that way. Why do you not have the 3-pin plugged into the motherboard?

unplanned bacon · Jan 27, 2014

HiTechObsessed :

I did, until I started routing. Just need to find a way for it to get there without a tonne of slack cable which I had for that top fan

HiTechObsessed · Jan 27, 2014

Just bundle the wire together and zip tie it right by the fan, that's how I have mine.

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