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See the cable that runs past all 3 of my pci slots making them unusable and under my video card too pushing on it slightly. Have I screwed up here or what? The input is labeled "12 V ATX" and the cable is labeled "CPU 1" and the 2nd head you see flopping freely off the same cable is "cpu 2".

Someone help please.

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I really wouldnt know how to cut them lol. Stupid ass OCZ power supply. Otherwise I was quite happy with the PSU. Hope I never need PCI upgrades hahahah


OTherwise.. does it all look good?

no youve done right... its just that the cable on your psu is to short to do any different. you can get 4 and 8 pin cable extenders that will solve your problem though
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get a cable extender and then route the cable behind the motherboard tray by pushing it through the hole beside the psu, up the back, then back in through the hole at the top of the case, and then plug 'er in. You have your pci slots back, no pressure on vid card, and cabling looks better

While we're at it, just run as many of those psu cables to the back of the mb tray as you can. it will make everything look so much better.

It resets then on the 2nd boot it goes into setup screens so I assume this is normal for a first boot up?

Problem is the CPU fan is rotating once every few seconds (struggling to even do that) and the hard drive is humming loudly.

I disconnected all case fans and still the noise persists from the HDD area.

My power supply is 600W and Im probably only using like 320Watts so I doubt its lack of power.

Any ideas?

Oh yes good catch but that is just an old picture. It has TWO PCI-E cables running too it... weird that the thing takes two IMO but theres two slots so I filled em both.


Any other ideas?

cpu might not be getting hot enough for the mb to turn on the fan. start something cpu intensive and see if it kicks on after it warms up. hard drive noise could be something or nothing. they normally don't hum, though, unless you're getting some serious resonance off of your case. normal noise is more like a super-fast clicking. make sure you don't have a cd in your optical drive, that can make noise.

Also a few other things. A. find another way to get the cord up there, if you cant, get another power supply. b. its not smart to have the cpu fan blowing back into the case, your going to have heat issues sooner or later.

blacksci said:
Also a few other things. A. find another way to get the cord up there, if you cant, get another power supply. b. its not smart to have the cpu fan blowing back into the case, your going to have heat issues sooner or later.


Isnt is normal to have the CPU fan blowing towards the back exit fan? How else would you set it up?

ok as i thought, my fan pulls air through the fins, and it exits out the side of the fan, check yours and make sure thats the case, who knows mebber some tard just set it up wrong with mine, but double check to make sure
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