hey guys. i have a mid tower case and i've always had a problem with the wires. i have a fortron blue storm 500 watt psu and now the wires touch my 6800 NU and i don't want it to. i tried to tie the wires with a rubber band that came with the psu but still it touches it a little. any tips or secrets to make the wires not touch the cards? i was thinkin of tryin to buy a exhaust fan in the back and just use that as a leaner(put the wires on top of the fan) but im not sure if it will work. any suggestions would be appreciated. thanks.
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PSU Wires...
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shade said:
http://www.9thtee.com/zipties.htm
No you cant stuff em in the PSU. You can however see if there is room between the right side of the case and the mobo tray or the optical storage units to shove the cables into.
nonono, its not that i don't have my wires neatly sleaved. its that i have no room in my comp. well there is enuff room for wires to just lie around but i don't want my wires to touch my VCARD. i used a rubber band to tie the wires together in a bundle and it still touches the vcard. the only thing i can think of it to have something for the wires to lie on above the vcard. i was wonderin if there is a way i can get a metal plate above the vcard so i cna rest the wires there instead of them restin on my vcard. or another solution?
why are you so concerned with wires touching your graphics card?
Anyway,
a metal plate probably isn't a good idea, because if that touches your card you've got serious problems. If your card is PCI it would be possible to mount the plate in the next slot up, but I don't know if there's a good way to mount one over the AGP card.
You might be able to use plastic. Swap out the heastsinks mounts for bolts and use those to hold both the heatsink and plastic backpane on. Though I'd be hesitant if there were any ram on the backside of the card, plastic is not a good thermal transfer material. (though if memory serves, the 6800s have pretty clean backs).
Zips ties are the fastest, easiest and cheapest. Just bundle up the wires up near the PSU and you shouldn't have any trouble taking enough slack out to clean up the wire pretty nicely.
The more time consuming, and more difficult (not that it's hard yet), but still pretty cheap (if you have some tools, or depending on exactly how you go about it) option is to cut the wires to length.
either you cut out the excess in the middle and splice them back together using an inline terminal (just a metal tube with insulation around it, you stick the ends of the wires in either end and smash the tube down with a pair of pliers), or you solder them back together and cover it with heatshrink tubing.
or you can cut off the excess at the end, and put new pins and connector on your new shorter wire, which is a completely seamless mod, no evidance you've done any cutting at all.
Anyway,
a metal plate probably isn't a good idea, because if that touches your card you've got serious problems. If your card is PCI it would be possible to mount the plate in the next slot up, but I don't know if there's a good way to mount one over the AGP card.
You might be able to use plastic. Swap out the heastsinks mounts for bolts and use those to hold both the heatsink and plastic backpane on. Though I'd be hesitant if there were any ram on the backside of the card, plastic is not a good thermal transfer material. (though if memory serves, the 6800s have pretty clean backs).
Zips ties are the fastest, easiest and cheapest. Just bundle up the wires up near the PSU and you shouldn't have any trouble taking enough slack out to clean up the wire pretty nicely.
The more time consuming, and more difficult (not that it's hard yet), but still pretty cheap (if you have some tools, or depending on exactly how you go about it) option is to cut the wires to length.
either you cut out the excess in the middle and splice them back together using an inline terminal (just a metal tube with insulation around it, you stick the ends of the wires in either end and smash the tube down with a pair of pliers), or you solder them back together and cover it with heatshrink tubing.
or you can cut off the excess at the end, and put new pins and connector on your new shorter wire, which is a completely seamless mod, no evidance you've done any cutting at all.
shade said:
not really.
if you were running an AC line through the case I'd take extra care to position it out of the way.
But insulated low voltage DC, not really. Devices are designed to deal with that kind of EMI, and DC doesn't generate induction currents (excpet on load changes).
Never tried it with rubber bands. If they hold well enough they're just as good as zip ties.
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spiral wrap would likely allow you to "shape" the harness to avoid the card