Hey guys I was wondering what you do to hide your IDE and power cables, heres a pic of my comp but that black tubing didnt work for me.

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i have the same case and it is really pretty easy.

First, unplug everything. deal with one drive's worth of wires at a time.

Then plug in the bottom most drive and then take the slack cables and tuck them either above the drive in the drive cage, or behind the cage all together, zip-ties are good for holding wires firm to the drive cages. the drive mount screw-holes are a good width for zip ties.

from there, go upward, next drive, power and ide, and tuck the slack, IDE ribbon cables take folds prety well, so dont be affraid to crease them.

If you have exposed wire that you cant tuck any place, 1/4 inch split loom or spiral wrap (from Radio Shack or online retailors in colors other than black) looks and works well.

Also, general case happiness, you may want to take advantage of the rear mounted 80mm fan brackets that came with the case, the exhaust they provide is invaluable for case cooling.

FYI.

Thanks for your help BZA but could you show some pics. I am having a hard time following by what you mean.

As for the fan, I will be doing a mod on the case soon, installing a 160mm intake

yeah, ill try to take some pics later, im at work now.

Quote: Originally posted by BZA yeah, ill try to take some pics later, im at work now.

Thanks for your help and taking time from your work to help me out

however i am also open for some suggestions

Learn the art of IDE origami.

The best example I could find was this: http://voodoopc.com/systems/images/g...origami_lg.jpg . Voodoo makes great systems and they have this incredible nack for hiding wires.

neo anymore pics? that is good but i dunno.

Waiting for BZA

I wrote up this little mini-guide for just such an occassion:

http://forums.pcapex.com/showthread....=neater+wiring

Thanks for the help putwig, although it was an idea, I do not think i can make my own power cables.

Another problem is that I do not want to cut any cables as I like to keep all in original state other than the case and cooling options.

See I got IDE cables in the middle of the board and its hard to hide it under the bayand run it around but I will try.

just shove em where they will fit. shove shove shove and see where they fit and then you can permanantly afix them, like with zip-ties.

I actually moved my hard drives to the 5 1/4 bays (only screwed in one side, havnt had a problem with it yet, been over a year) that way I keep all the wiring to the top of the case, then just tuck all the excess wires and ide cables in between the hdd and your cd-rom (should be a decent little gap there, just do your ide's first, then stuff the extra wiring in there. Any wires your not using either tuck em behind the mobo tray, or tape em to the top of your case (if your window doesn't go all the way up, which most don't.


Casper

ok i need some suggestions:

1. The 4 pin cable from the PSU to the Board. It has to go around the board. Any suggestions there?

2. See how the cable cant be hidden if it goes from the top bays to the middle of the board, what can I do?

Notice I already figured out what BZA meant by hiding it behind the bay drive. So one cable hidden

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You cant really hide the cables going to the middle of the board. All you can really do is just make those look neater and less apparent. Try to keep the cables close to the board. And there is alot of space behind the mobo and the tray where power connectors and such could be hidden.

here is a closeup of the wires i shoved into the void

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and here is the viewable image, the window hides any of the clutter perfectly

ooooh, also in the first pic, notice the new 92mm dual LED fan on my heatsink.....ooohoOOOoOOoOOOooooo

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btw, if some of you are wondering where the galler subbmission is for this rig, it is coming, i have ZERO ability to put together a collage of the pics i have snapped, and there are lots of good ones, so IM waiting on a friend (cough*DW*cough) to put one together for me.

I found this guide while looking for more pics of the Voodoo PC's wiring jobs. It is found here : http://www.viperlair.com/articles/ho...nt_antec.shtml . He has some good tips and his finished job doesnt look bad at all.

i dont hide my cables. well some of them. i put most of the in braid and position them into neat positions.

Well guys i redid all the cables and it was a success! I will post in a few minutes!

Quote: Originally posted by Gladiator Well guys i redid all the cables and it was a success! I will post in a few minutes!

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