Now that I finally received and installed the Ultra-X
HSF, it was time to make the motherboard permanent. That meant spending about a good 3 hours planning the cable routing. I wanted some of the cables to run beneath the
mobo, but had to find a way to make them fit and still allow the
mobo to bolt down. It wasn't easy!
The first pic shows my first idea. It didn't allow the
mobo to bolt down without too much flexing of the
mobo, however. I had to find another way to route the fat black 24-pin power cables. The second pic was my eventual solution.
The P4 connector runs down under the
mobo, zip-ties into place, then comes back up just enough to curl into the connector at the top, near the
PSU. The 24-pin cable was just the right thickness to allow me to route it behind the 5.25" drive bays, and would be held in place as I was able to stuff them beneath the drives themselves quite snugly.
I scrapped my earlier idea of using black cable sleeving for the IDE cable running to the DVD burner, because I wanted that to slip beneath the
mobo too, since the IDE connector is right at the edge of the
mobo. I removed the sleeving and simply pulled the IDE cabling (that I'd previously split into ribbons) tight, and it also made a very nice, snug fit beneath the anglerfish mod.