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Krenum · Aug 25, 2014

daro2096 said:
It is a rats nest on the other side though.

Looks alright. Whats going on with that smoked acrylic? Did you cut it yourself?

-2 Internets for that stock cooler though. Yuck. At least get a Hyper 212 & put on it.

daro2096 · Aug 25, 2014

Krenum said:
Looks alright. Whats going on with that smoked acrylic? Did you cut it yourself?

-2 Internets for that stock cooler though. Yuck. At least get a Hyper 212 & put on it.

It is a Parvum Systems 1 case. Can't afford a better cooler at the moment.

Krenum · Aug 25, 2014

daro2096 said:
It is a Parvum Systems 1 case. Can't afford a better cooler at the moment.

26$ here

http://www.compbargains.com/_e/Proc...Master_Hyper_212_EVO_Cooling_Fan_Heatsink.htm

I had this cooler on my overclocked 4.2ghz 2500k for over a year, kept it in the mid 30's at idle and the low 60s at load. If you ask me , you can't beat it for the price.

daro2096 · Aug 26, 2014

Krenum said:
26$ here

http://www.compbargains.com/_e/Proc...Master_Hyper_212_EVO_Cooling_Fan_Heatsink.htm

I had this cooler on my overclocked 4.2ghz 2500k for over a year, kept it in the mid 30's at idle and the low 60s at load. If you ask me , you can't beat it for the price.

Am in the UK. That deal is no good for me. Besides am only using this computer for basic web surfing, email and the odd video editing. Nothing taxing to the system.

vdragonlance · Sep 1, 2014

New build still waiting on the GPU R-290x and Cooler Master Seidon 120V

4690k
Samsung 840 Evo 250gb
MSI z97 Gaming 5
Seagate 500gb HDD
Seasonic SS-660XP2
8gb G.SKILL Sniper 2133
Corsair 230T

Meeho · Sep 1, 2014

I do a good job routing the cables out of the airflow in my builds, but I can't manage to do it nearly as neatly as the builds here. I find that it would require either too much force on the connectors than I'm comfortable with or would have to bend the cables excessively. How do you deal with that?

1337m0dd3r · Sep 5, 2014

better case, put more time and effort, test your cables limits

vdragonlance · Sep 8, 2014

Finally done

Jorona · Sep 9, 2014

vdragonlance said:
Finally done ... snip

Why are you using the 8x PCIe slot?

colinstu · Sep 9, 2014

Jorona said:
Why are you using the 8x PCIe slot?

They're both x16 slots (when only 1 card is used). Goes to x8/x8 if two are used.

sonsonate · Sep 9, 2014

vdragonlance said:
Finally done

If there any less cables shown, I'd say you altered the picture with PS. Lol. Very clean.

Jorona · Sep 9, 2014

colinstu said:
They're both x16 slots (when only 1 card is used). Goes to x8/x8 if two are used.

Uh, no. That is a physical 16x, 8x electrical.

colinstu · Sep 9, 2014

Jorona said:
Uh, no. That is a physical 16x, 8x electrical.

Where does it say that? Manual doesn't suggest that (that I can see/find).

vdragonlance · Sep 9, 2014

Jorona said:
Why are you using the 8x PCIe slot?

I'm pretty sure all 3 slots are 16x unless you're using 2 or more. Plus I see no bottlenecking with the 290x down there.

sonsonate said:
If there any less cables shown, I'd say you altered the picture with PS. Lol. Very clean.

Haha thanks, I still need to figure a way to route the front intake fans cables .

Jorona · Sep 9, 2014

colinstu said:
Where does it say that? Manual doesn't suggest that (that I can see/find).

vdragonlance said:
I'm pretty sure all 3 slots are 16x unless you're using 2 or more. Plus I see no bottlenecking with the 290x down there.

Only half of that connector has pins in it. It's an 8x slot. Its really easy to see that guys.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130770

Zoom in on the slots. The second slot only has half of its fingers. Thus 8x.

Cschill1290 · Sep 9, 2014

He's right about the x8/x16 thing. Only the top slot is a full x16 slot, the others are x8 electrically, and x16 physically. However, (depending on who did the testing) x8 vs x16 only results in a 1% or 2% performance hit. First example I came across was this one from techpowerup.com. Not much of a hit really. In fact, I'm running mine in an x8 slot just because I didn't have room with my sound card to put my 5850 in the x16 slot.

faugusztin · Sep 9, 2014

There is a newer article too. Not much difference either :
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Intel/Ivy_Bridge_PCI-Express_Scaling/

Jorona · Sep 10, 2014

I'm aware that the difference is only acouple percent at worst, but if you have the freedom to put it in the correct slot, why not?

Also, I'd want that 290x in free air. Right now it might be competing with the PSU for air flow. Move it up and you'll have both front fans blowing on it, and the PSU gets abit more room to breathe. Win-Win.

Quartz-1 · Sep 10, 2014

Wasn't there a recent incident of the GPU melting the tubes of an AIO fluid cooler?

Jorona · Sep 11, 2014

Quartz-1 said:
Wasn't there a recent incident of the GPU melting the tubes of an AIO fluid cooler?

I hope not, I have my H60's tubes resting on my hairdry... GTX480. If anything is going to melt shit, it's that card.

drklu · Sep 11, 2014

Jorona said:
I hope not, I have my H60's tubes resting on my hairdry... GTX480. If anything is going to melt shit, it's that card.

This works pretty well to keep the temps down for my 480. It's a Thermalright spitfire if my memory serves.

Cable management

CaptNumbNutz · Sep 11, 2014

Jorona said:
I'm aware that the difference is only acouple percent at worst, but if you have the freedom to put it in the correct slot, why not?

Maybe it has more to do with asthetics. The way he has it now it shows the cables going at straight lines and right angles and the logo on the motherboard south bridge heatsink is prominent. Asthetically, it may look better this way to him, at a miniscule loss of performance or cooling capability. This is the "Rate my cables" thread, not "rate my performance" or "rate my cooling" thread.

Matthew Kane · Sep 11, 2014

480's melting to shit? Nah will never happen, it make the stuff near it melt to shit though.

Reality · Sep 12, 2014

Jorona · Sep 12, 2014

CaptNumbNutz said:
Maybe it has more to do with asthetics. The way he has it now it shows the cables going at straight lines and right angles and the logo on the motherboard south bridge heatsink is prominent. Asthetically, it may look better this way to him, at a miniscule loss of performance or cooling capability. This is the "Rate my cables" thread, not "rate my performance" or "rate my cooling" thread.

Very true, just figured I'd give advice aswell. The wiring is quite well done.

m3ta1head · Sep 12, 2014

Budget build for a friend...quite pleased with how it turned out.

vdragonlance · Sep 13, 2014

CaptNumbNutz said:
Maybe it has more to do with asthetics. The way he has it now it shows the cables going at straight lines and right angles and the logo on the motherboard south bridge heatsink is prominent. Asthetically, it may look better this way to him, at a miniscule loss of performance or cooling capability. This is the "Rate my cables" thread, not "rate my performance" or "rate my cooling" thread.

Yah lol!

Jorona said:
Very true, just figured I'd give advice aswell. The wiring is quite well done.

Thanks! I moved the card back up and it actually looks cleaner that way lol I'd post a pic but I don't want to spam the thread

msns90046 · Sep 13, 2014

Corsair Air 240 White
"Cable management?
Which case we're using we don't really care about......cable management."

AthlonXP · Oct 7, 2014

Any suggestions on tightening up anything else?

rflcptr · Oct 8, 2014

A shot of my most recent control panel's interior:

vdragonlance · Oct 8, 2014

updated: Added another SSD, replaced all the fans with Corsair AF140s and SP120s. I wanted max positive pressure so that's why you see the top and bottom fans as intake

PCunicorn · Oct 9, 2014

Beautiful cables. One thing that bugs me though is the crooked SSDs. Probably wouldn't be to hard to fix that, and would make it look significantly better IMO.

Oh and you guys should probably work a little harder on rating the cables above you

vdragonlance · Oct 9, 2014

PCunicorn said:
Beautiful cables. One thing that bugs me though is the crooked SSDs. Probably wouldn't be to hard to fix that, and would make it look significantly better IMO.

Oh and you guys should probably work a little harder on rating the cables above you

Thanks! Yeah, I noticed they were crooked lol. They are held in place by a single screw so I just tighten them up a bit so they wouldn't move

NukeULater · Oct 10, 2014

I'm rather envious of all of these super clean systems. I'm still working on mine, custom cables and new fans are going to be installed soon. Either way, I have way more components stuffed into this case. Specs are in my sig.

faugusztin · Oct 10, 2014

All i can think about when seeing your build is "let's cook some AMD GPU"

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NukeULater · Oct 10, 2014

faugusztin said:
All i can think about when seeing your build is "let's cook some AMD GPU" .

lol, I actually have 4 of those cards. I don't have enough power connectors or pci x16 slots due to my raid card. Maybe that's a good thing...

PCunicorn · Oct 11, 2014

Overkill much? lol

I feel like it would look better if there was more tension on the PCIe cables.

daro2096 · Oct 15, 2014

Here is the back of my Parvum S1 case. Not much I can do about the rats nest of cables short of having custom cables made but I would need to know the layout of the pins on the psu.

faugusztin · Oct 16, 2014

My current main computer :

vdragonlance · Oct 22, 2014

Finished for now. You can see the progression pics all on this page

Such a rats nest on the other side of the mobo tray

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