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P180 Wire Mangement Help *PICS*

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Hi, i recieved my Antec P180 about 2 weeks ago, i have rewired it about 3 times over, i just cant get it to look good, i am going to mod a window on the side so i would like to make it look good. i go to LAN parties so i like to show it off :) i added a fan on the bottom right were the HDD rack is, and 2 intake fans on the front.

The problems i am having are

-ASUS A8N-SLI Premium has the stupid easy plug in an awful spot

-i have the PC P&C, so i have a lot of cables,

- i would jsut like advice on what i could do to make it look better

The pictures are realy bad looking because i had to put the camera on 640x480 to make it upload corretly on photobucket.

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Thank you for your help
 
My first piece of advise is the ditch the 120mm fan down below. You have a fan up front so that one is unnecessary. Pull that fan and run your cables through the space to your hard drives. Also you can run your mobo/PCIe/molex connectors through there and then straight up to your peripherals. In all reality this case was designed in such a way that you don't need good cable management, with the isolated compartments and then the CPU cooling zone.
 
You don't look like your using the drive cage in the main section. I'd remove it. I did and it frees up a lot of room.

Actually, your wiring looks pretty good to me. It's a heck of a lot better than mine, that's for sure. It just seems that you can spend a lot of time on a nice wiring job and then you go change stuff and then yor're at it again for another hour.

Neatness does take time!

Good luck!
 
Well, here's mine for reference, to start off:

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Basically, what I would suggest:

-At the expense of the back side of the case, thread as many cables as you can behind the mobo tray. If you're lucky, the back door won't bulge too much - mine has a slight bulge, but it's no more than half a centimeter, maybe, at the bottom. This is mainly due to putting the 24-pin mobo connector behind, but if you want, you can keep that going through the slots within the case and thread everything else behind, thus probably eliminating any bulge. --- Actually, now that I look at the picture more closely, you seem to have something decent worked out with the mobo connector. Seems to have a bit more slack than mine, anyway.
-Are you using the fan controller for the 7700? If so, check out what I did with mine: I threaded it through the openings between each video card and down through an open empty PCI slot, then back in and up the same way, twisty-tieing any slack outside the case.
-If you're willing, move one of your optical drives down a slot, and put the extra cord in the space. You can't see it in my picture, but I used a yellow twisty-tie to secure the extra cable inside the 5.25" bay space through one of those rectangular holes.
-I agree, the 4-pin connector's in an awful spot; again, it's hard to tell in my photo, but all I did was thread it through from the back and over, and I kind of kept it in place by pushing it against the corner of the mobo (that said, I recommend if you didn't use all the screws on your mobo, at least putting one up in the corner so this can be done).
-Again, with the zalman gpu heatsinks, you may want to put the slack outside the case so it's not cluttering stuff up.
-The mobo connectors, USB and Firewire connectors and floppy power cable (though it doesn't look like you have a floppy drive) can all be put through an opening on the very right of the opening in the case partition.

So, basically, I think mainly the problem is all the stuff going on down at the bottom of the motherboard, most of which can either go down and around or out through an empty PCI slot. The video card PCI-e connectors can go around back, too, and see if you can make use of the little space near the PCI-e slots, between the slot openings and the card slot itself.

I hope that helped, I'm only something of a novice at wire management myself. Good luck. I have more reference pictures if you need to see what I'm talking about, or something.
 
Thank you very much for your time, i will be trying all your ideas, but i like the very bottom fan because my hard drives down there got very hot, but i added one in the very bttom front, you cant see it because its a 92mm.

i like the upper HD cage because it is a good place to hold screws and such, but it looks odd
because i have cabling through there.

I have a zalman fan controller on the very top 5.25" slot.
 
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