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wire management solutions?

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What are you guys all using? Not just the rouded IDE cables but what else helps keep your case looking clean:)
 
- Sleeving for PSU wires and all other wires
- Rounded Cables on IDE and Floppy Cables
- Well SATA cables speak for themselves for SATA drives
- Cable Ties

and hidding them and bundling them with other wires.
 
My new system has all rounded cables, and about 6 X 10^3 cable ties. Sleeves would have been cool, but if you take your time and are careful, things can turn out very nice with lots of cable ties.

Rock On - B.B.S.
 
anybody use any kind of routing along the interior walls of your cases at the corners (from corner to corner)? I know I saw little sticky tab deals that worked for small spaces and areas to route exterior wiring. I cant recall where I saw them though:(
 
Cable Ties
Split loom
Routing cables behind motherboard tray.
 
I use black cable-ties since my PSU has black power wires. I've cut the ties so close that it looks like the wires are hanging onto the case by themselves in most places.
 
IMO, rounded cables should only be considered if:

-IDE ribbons cannot be folded and tucked away
-your IDE cables are really visible through a case window

In my case, rounded cables would be too bulky and cannot be hidden very well in some areas.

edit: Oh yea, if you have lotsa wires along the bottom of the case, make a false floor out of some nice material to cover the mess.
 
Drill a small hole near the corners and edges of case wall, use zip ties to pull wiring nice and tight along corners and edges. Works better than it sounds.
 
a false bottom or a false wall nexto ur mo-bo helps out godly and is quite easy to make from sheet metal. sheathing kits for your psu help out alot, and you can always shorten/elongate wires to fit where they have to go, via a soddering iron and new wire, from that you can easily make your wires any color you want and hold them back with zip ties.
yah only go with rounded ide cables/floppy cable if you cant fold and hide your cables, with most mid tower cases rounded cables are too fat to hide behind the walls, for extream wire hiding you may want to raise your motherboard up a bit and move it's connections by cutting new holes and welding a plate over the old ones so it looks nice, ill post a pic of mine if i can find a free ftp to host my images so i can post them on here.
 
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