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Old 08-16-05, 06:43 PM Thread Starter   #1
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Help needed with cable management...


Navi is a rat's nest. I just now realized that this might be a huge problem while looking at my soon-to-be-installed XP-90. The biggest problem seems to be the extra PSU cables (BlueStorm 500W). Maybe a modular is in order? If I can find adhesive cable clips large enough, will running them across the top of the case work?

Pics of the chaos to come as soon as I can get a good one (there may be a general pic showing the wire mess at http://nightshadow-wolf.tripod.com/navionline.html).

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Looks like there is some space between the top of your case and the top of your CD-ROM (or DVD-ROM or whatever) so you should be able to tuck extra power connectors up there. That's where I hid my unused disk drive connectors since my PC didn't have any floppy drive.
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Old 08-16-05, 11:35 PM Thread Starter   #3
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I have a floppy drive in the very top 3.5" bay (that's where I was stuffing things before I found I needed a floppy drive for the SATA drivers). I'm thinking of buying a bunch of adhesive cable clips (if I can find them large enough; I've seen tiny ones for single wires but that's about it) and putting them along the top of the case close to the sides.

Now that I have the SATA working properly, I suppose I could ditch the IDE CD drive and pick up another SATA one (I have another SATA DVD-RW that hasn't been installed yet).

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I couldn't see the other side of your case, but I stuck all my extra cables behind the motherboard tray. If you have enough room under it that would help clean things up a bit.

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