cable management help

doesnt look too bad, I would get some tie wraps and something us electricians call sticky backs. They are square pieces that attach to a flat surface like the back side of your panel and hold the wire by a small clip. You can get these at home depot or lowes. They are white and are about 1 1/2 in diameter not very big. Thats about the best advice I have for ya, good luck!

For the ATX 20+4 mobo and the 4-pin +12v CPU power connectors, I would route it between the CPU/power supply and follow the rear case fan down towards the gpu. The case fan is handy in this case, since you can use the unused mounting holes as wire guides. Wire cage fan guards also work well.


The first pic is my son's Cent5, I routed the 4-pin +12v CPU power connector in that fashion. Same for my gamebox in the latter two pics, and some fan controller & temp sensor wires went along for the ride down towards the bottom of the case as well.

Note the "wad" of wires between the PSU & the dvd drive in the first pic - I did that intentionally to keep more free-flowing air through the vented front panel (it seems to help, it is really cool but the CM Hyper48 has a lot to do with that ). In both rigs tried to keep the power cables as far back towards the rear of the case as possible then the only protrusions are the I/O cables. In one build I did the PSU cables were so long I put the dvd in the 2nd slot and used the space in the first slot to take up all the slack.

I recall another cent5, the GPU was a 7800gtx and OCd pretty high - he had the standard steel door, the lower vented panel was perfect for a leftover 80mm server fan I had laying around, ran great off the +5v for some low-speed & quiet extra GPU cooling.

Hope these ideas help your situation out

i had a similar problem with my cheepo case .and cable management ..well i found that is very helpful
my case looked at first like this

after a little bit of googling and 2 hours i did some major cable management in order to improve a better airflow
the result looks like this

leaving the cpu area free of cable improved the airflow cuz my CPU idle temperature dropped about 5 Celsius
and i added a wind tunnel and mouted a fan for intake...

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