Overclocking my cpu
- Thread starter jwcrellin
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Here's for hiding the cables:
Run the USB cable up along the heatspreader on your mobo. If it doesn't have it, make it look good along that. The fan cords just run them right out the top, and use a ziptie to loop the CPU fan wire excess back onto itself.
Run the USB cable up along the heatspreader on your mobo. If it doesn't have it, make it look good along that. The fan cords just run them right out the top, and use a ziptie to loop the CPU fan wire excess back onto itself.
The_Staplergun
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Here's for hiding the cables:
Run the USB cable up along the heatspreader on your mobo. If it doesn't have it, make it look good along that. The fan cords just run them right out the top, and use a ziptie to loop the CPU fan wire excess back onto itself.
Run the USB cable up along the heatspreader on your mobo. If it doesn't have it, make it look good along that. The fan cords just run them right out the top, and use a ziptie to loop the CPU fan wire excess back onto itself.
The_Staplergun
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You should see the backside of my case. It's a damn mess. As long as the area inside where the airflow is, and if it's viewable (like mine with a glass side), is clear of cables and looks neat, it's great.
Here's a closeup of that area.
I hooked the USB cord just under the clasp on the bottom left where the thumbscrew tightens below the frame right next to the standoff, and pulled it up and around the heatspreader so that it goes up to where the CPU 8pin is on the mobo and ran it out behind the board like that.
Here's a closeup of that area.
I hooked the USB cord just under the clasp on the bottom left where the thumbscrew tightens below the frame right next to the standoff, and pulled it up and around the heatspreader so that it goes up to where the CPU 8pin is on the mobo and ran it out behind the board like that.
The_Staplergun
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If you have a fat wad of cables running through your case, it will disturb airflow. Probably not a whole lot, but it will.
Maybe, but it doesn't make a difference on temps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDCMMf-_ASE
If you don't want to watch the video, they take a PC running CPU+GPU stress tests, measure the temps with good cable management, and then start adding stuff. At first they just add a bunch of extra cables, and then proceed to add stuff like a t-shirt, and none of it made a difference. Only when they started putting large flat objects directly in front of fans did temps go up. So realistically, cable management makes no difference on temps, unless maybe if you have a tiny SFF case or something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDCMMf-_ASE
If you don't want to watch the video, they take a PC running CPU+GPU stress tests, measure the temps with good cable management, and then start adding stuff. At first they just add a bunch of extra cables, and then proceed to add stuff like a t-shirt, and none of it made a difference. Only when they started putting large flat objects directly in front of fans did temps go up. So realistically, cable management makes no difference on temps, unless maybe if you have a tiny SFF case or something.
The_Staplergun
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Well, you're the expert. I guess what I'm thinking of is the old master/slave HDD cables and their wide strips that are just inneficient that would directly stifle airflow. Thanks for the information. I learn something new every day.
Hmm, mentioning HDD cables made me think that they didn't measure the temp of anything else in the PC. Maybe other components like HDDs would get hot? Not something I ever think about, no idea what a safe temp for HDDs/SDD/Optical drives would even be.
Cable management isn't something I'm going to worry about though. But I'm no expert, just going off a couple things I've seen/read, like that youtube video.
Cable management isn't something I'm going to worry about though. But I'm no expert, just going off a couple things I've seen/read, like that youtube video.
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