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Right, some updates on the almighty Core 2 Quad rig. It is now officially mine, so I have started playing with it and have been installing Windows on it etc.

I tried to make a start with some cable management but sadly this case apparently isn't any good for cable management it seems, so for the time being cable management can kiss my butt I say. :D I will have another go at it tomorrow when I dust down the PC too. Weather tomorrow looks OK so I should be able to take the PC outside to dust it down meaning I won't get dust all over my floor or in my room. My room is currently a massive mess.

This is the best I could do for the time being, I will try to improve it.

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So this is what's behind the motherboard tray... see the problem? There's only one large gap to feed cables through! >.< Anybody got any ideas as to how I could do decent cable management in this case? Zip ties?

My best efforts... sorry for the dark photo and yeah I know the cables are still freaking everywhere. Grrrr.... >.<

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I replaced the original DVD-RW drive with a newer one as the original drive was pretty much broken.

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Oh yeah... just to annoy Raz3rD... :D

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See it - C2Q Q8300. :)

Right dusting down the PC tomorrow, any help with the cable management would be appreciated.
 
okay. From what I see you can get some of it behind the panels. Take the USB and power/reset and put that behind the panel going strait down and across the bottom to the ports on the board.
Next trash the IDE cd drive and go to sata. that will clean up your cable management by a good bit too.
SATA power and data to the HDD and DVD drive looks like it could be run under the drive and around front to get behind the panels and out of sight.
Plug those 2 fans on the back panel to the motherboard headers and zip tie the cables up out of the way.

whatever is left, just zip tie it up and you will be good. You might be happier with a heat gun and some shrink tube on it.
 
Right OK thanks for the help, Wolfe. :) I don't actually have any SATA optical drives on me right now so I'll have to stick to IDE for the time being I'm afraid. I may change the power supply unit all together, the unit I am using here looks like a rather old one - only one SATA power cable. :/ Will do as you suggested tomorrow too. :) The board doesn't look like it actually has any fan headers which is annoying me.
 
i can't read the center one, but one says volt and the other temp, so its probably a analog gauge to monitor CPU performance.
 
vistakid10 said:
Oh yeah... just to annoy Raz3rD... :D

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See it - C2Q Q8300. :)

Right dusting down the PC tomorrow, any help with the cable management would be appreciated.
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Thanks, thanks so much. Now I have to put you on my Official Hit List so I can come and steal the C2Q Rig MUHAHAHA!

Nah JK, hopefully I can get one soon :D

Looks awesome and TBF I like the case, cablemanagement shouldn't be too much of an issue after a while when you find the ways to hide it all :D
 
@VistaKid: Theres a space of pretty reasonable size behind the 3.5 bays, you could probably stuff a good amount of that wiring as long as you bundle it up with zip ties behind the drives, also with 3 pin fan and 4 pin as well can be wrapped around a screwdriver, and made curly, it looks far better than clumping them up and tieing a breadtie around em...and keeps them generally away from the fan...

http://www.pyroelectro.com/projects/fm_bug_transmitter/img/coil_close_up.jpg

Just do that with the 3 and 4 pin pwm stuff, looks pretty professional if you ask me, can also do it with sata to take length in the wire

And for about 60-70 bucks, you could replace the HEC psu with a OCZ unit with some cable management...and remove about half the wires you arent using from the machine.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341017&Tpk=600W OXZ
 
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Thanks for all the suggestions guys! :)

Raz3rD said:
Thanks, thanks so much. Now I have to put you on my Official Hit List so I can come and steal the C2Q Rig MUHAHAHA!
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I am typing this on a Core 2 Quad. :P Not even joking as well. :D

Raz3rD said:
Looks awesome and TBF I like the case, cablemanagement shouldn't be too much of an issue after a while when you find the ways to hide it all
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Yeah I'm think I'm going to use a lot of zip ties and industrial tape to get everything behind the motherboard tray and 3.5" bays.

FuryRosewood said:
Theres a space of pretty reasonable size behind the 3.5 bays, you could probably stuff a good amount of that wiring as long as you bundle it up with zip ties behind the drives
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Yep I tried this, but I couldn't get the side panel back on, maybe I need to try harder. :D There is enough room so that shouldn't be an issue hiding cables behind there.

FuryRosewood said:
also with 3 pin fan and 4 pin as well can be wrapped around a screwdriver, and made curly, it looks far better than clumping them up and tieing a breadtie around em...and keeps them generally away from the fan...
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Those fans aren't even connected (if you're talking about the exhaust fans?) - I don't have any fan headers on the motherboard (it's kind of a "budget board"), but I can get some 3-pin fan connectors to molex adapters for £1.29 each with free P&P so I'll get a pair of those to use. :)

FuryRosewood said:
And for about 60-70 bucks, you could replace the HEC psu with a OCZ unit with some cable management...and remove about half the wires you arent using from the machine.
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Yeah I agree a modular power supply would be good, but sadly I'm kind of strapped for cash right now as I spent it all on my 2500K rig. :D I changed the power supply this morning to a newer one (the other one was old), and even by just changing the power supply the results look a lot better, see below!

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Next thing to do is take this baby outside and spray her down with compressed air :)
 
Time for an update!

OK I've got the cable management to a fairly decent standard now. I've put the cables I'm not using behind the motherboard tray and 3.5" drive bays, and the new result is this.

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I also used several zip-ties too as suggested. That's probably about as good as it's going to get and to be honest I just wanna start using my Core 2 Quuuuaaadddd now so I'm going to leave the cable management at that.

I dusted down the PC this morning too, and as promised here are some "before and after" photos. :)

Before:
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After:
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Temperatures are around 45C at idle now, not sure what they were before though. These temps are pretty normal for the stock cooler, I got the same sort of temps on my i5 760 with a stock cooler.

One final photo, here's another view inside.

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That desk I am looking at on eBay ends tomorrow evening, so I will hopefully win the auction and go and collect it either on Sunday evening or Monday morning (it's in a town called Attleborough, it's a ten minute drive from where I live) and then I will post some pics of the rig at a proper desk. :)

Oh, and...

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Core 2 Quad inside... :)
 
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Was referring to CPU fans and such, and honestly connecting them to a molex i wouldn't do, id get a small fan controller and hook them to that instead so their not screaming all the time.

Notice what i have in black, and i did rotate the fan, i accidentally had that wire reaching too far to the h100, but you can do this with any 3 pin or 4 pin pwm cable, and it looks far better than the silly zip or breadtiedowns, just takes up the space, and looks professional :)

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Yep I could do that with the CPU cooler wires, but I've got her all up and running now. I'll do it at a later date. :) I agree it looks better than zip ties though and they do look pretty cool.

I don't mind about the fans running at 100%, I'm more for cooling than silencing. My PCs never run 24/7 so noise isn't a massive concern for me.
 
mine dont either, however when your doing something where you want to listen, like say to music, the fan controller can make a huge difference.
 
Yeah you have a point there, but usually my music is up so loud anyway the sound of the PC and any fans is muffled out anyway. :D
 
I'm with vista on this, but I usually buy good cfm to noise ratio fans and spend the few dollars extra. Fury, how does the h100 cool? My fx runs hot, especially since its gonna be summer soon, and my 212 isn't cutting it.
 
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