My cable management is so bad I can't close my case but I don't care
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Well, the important thing is that the cables aren't impeding the flow of air around the parts that get hot. It doesn't look like they are, so I don't see a problem.
I don't see a problem here.
PS: My opinion on PC innards was formed during the reign of IDE cables.
Just shove the excess cabling into the 5.25" Bay area so you can shut the case
Full of my hard drive and SSD :/
I think that's the 3.5" Bay you're referring to. The 2 cd/dvd drive bays at the top should be big enough to cram the wires in
CD drive still in there just not plugged in. But good idea I can just yank it out
I haven't looked in years, but you used to be able to get covers or dust filters that popped into 5.25 bays for a few bucks.
Also, those cables are flat, so you might be able to fold them in half and put them under the cd drive, but above the storage drives
If no side window, who cares, let it be messy! Call it your sleeper office PC.
I could tell because every internal connection isn't hot glued in place.
As long as you can close the case, and the cables don't get caught in the fans, it's perfect inside.
I can tell this isn't a prebuilt because your PSU isn't a sus nondescript metal box.
Unpopular opinion, but I just get a solid side panel and do minimal to no cable management. I don't care about rgb or if the insides look pretty.
Steer clear of the fans and it's all good.
Personally I hate RGB. It gives me a headache
It'll work, but in a few years those cables will be full of dust.
Eeeewww. You know there's a panel on the other side to hide all that, right?
I haven't seen a case since like 2014 that didn't have the cable management on the other side but like like OPs case doesn't. Hard to tell from here
It don't. I've had this case for awhile, got it out the dump of an office building and just kept upgrading it.
If this is a proprietary case (such as those from Dell, HP, etc), which it looks like this is, then it probably doesn't.
My suggestion is to get even a bargain bin $50 case and switch to that quickly. Far less limiting and probably has cable management components all over.
The Montech cases are really good, come with 6 RGB fans preinstalled, and a glass side (not plexi)
i can tell because is not all proprietary
I feel so seen.
Why did you put an 850W power supply in that? You could probably put a 650W that's much nicer for the same price.
It was on sale and I thought "eh what the hell I'll upgrade sometime down the road"
Yeah, as long as you're pulling more than like 20% of the rated power then having a slightly overspec power supply is only going to bring you good things.
What about a worse power bill?
I had the opposite problem building mine, if I tried to cable manage* I couldn't close the case because there was too much slack
*hiding all the cables in the back panel
I love PC parts branded "sparkle". I had a Sparkle power supply and I just hoped I would never see a magic blue sparkle.
How is the Intel arc treating you op? Is it actually good for general purpose nowadays, or still a lot in beta phase?