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Neat-ifying my cables

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donahue

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With recent first time viewing of the "rate my cables thread" I was horrified at my own cables. I ordered a windowed side panel that will be here Tuesday so I think I should fix up my interior. I have absolutely no experience doing this. What products/techniques do I need?

Here is my case:

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the most common way i have seen is zip ties but im not a very big fan of those because if you dont do it right it still looks like sh*t. i orderd a molex UV plug conversion & sleeving kit from www.frozencpu.com really nice place and they ship everything FAST like 1-2 days on the normal shipping cheap prices too. but go check out the sleeving kits there they make it look really neat.
 
Well, I got a Vantec cable sleeving kit off newegg for $13 shipped. Hope it helps.
 
I think before you start looking at sleeving things, see what you can hide.
Obvious things you can do to improve it:

Turn the back fan around, so the cable exits at the rear of the case, then route it behind the mobo. The same can probably be done with the CPU fan, so the cable exits right beside the mobo header for it, then fold and cable tie as short as possible.

Move the top 5 1/4" drive down one bay, and cable tie any excess molex connectors into the top bay. Or if possible, behind those bays, and have both 5 1/4" drives at the top.

Re-route your front panel wires (the ones to the power/reset buttons and LEDs on the front bezel) around the back of the drive cages, under the mobo, and emerge right where they plug in.

Get rid of the PC speaker sitting on the bottom of the case, if you still want to use it, get it in, or behind the drive bays.

You should now have two bundles of cable coming out of the PSU, one to the ATX plug on the motherboard, which you can possibly hide most of behind or in the drive bays, and another going straight across the top of the case for all your molexes (that's one bit you can't really avoid seeing depending on your window, so you may want to sleeve that at least).

There isn't a heck of a lot you can do with the power going to the gfx card, unless you don't mind taking the plug off, threading it through a mounting hole in the mobo (assuming there is one close by) so that most of it runs behind the mobo.

Hope that helps you. Once you've got rid of most of that stuff, you shouldn't be left with too much that you can see, just the IDE cables, and a few molexes sneaking into the drives.
 
After:

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In the process, I twisted the SATA cable so much that there was too much pressure on the plastic around the metal male connector on the hard drive and it snapped off into female connector the cable. I now have to tape it on so it stays.

I think it all looks pretty good cept the bunch at the top. I cant find a way to untangle them because they are intertwined. Any more advice??
 
Update:

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I will be moving the SATA cable around back when the comp is off. Then I think I am done. Window will be here tomorrow, CCFL will be here on Thursday. Do I even need the sleeving kit that I ordered?
 
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This is a good outline of what you should finish up

- Hide the exhuast fan cable up and under the PSU
- Power cables should all be going straight into that extra bay, and behind the drive mounts. Hide most of the cables there, and sneak out the ones that need power
- Move the hard drive right accross from the video card so you can use 1 cable in a straight line
- Shove that stuff (power, restart, sound cables) under your motherboard. Just unscrew the motherboard mount, lift it up slightly with 1 hand, and put those wires underneath, and above the screw bracket that connects the motherboard to tray so they don't fall down

Yes, you want that sleeving kit.
 
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