Help with cable mess?

[TechWizard]

Yeah, it's going to be tight behind the motherboard, but it works, you should be able to at least get the IDE cables to go behind the motherboard and into the harddrives. I'll post a picture of my set up, show you how my wiring looks, its not the best but you dont see my IDE Slips haning out the side or front.



It's still kind of messy, this was my first computer I'v built. As you can see the my hard drives face the back so putting the IDE Slips in the back was raither easy. Id suggest giving it a shot. Alot of my wires are tangled and the bottom auxeleries aren't plugged in (I'm that lazy). You guys will probably cry when you see this next picture.. this is what my case looked like BEFORE I put the cables behind the motherboard....



Can't get much worse than that. Don't feel bad about your wiring, I can't do it either too well =P. I Feel so newb. ... But my computer runs fast so I'm happy

EDIT:: I even had the CPU Fan on backwards the first time

 

[stratcatprowlin]

this could be the most expensive, but invest in one of those modular PSUs. they kill any wiring issue you may have(i know, cuz mine was worse than yours) and you have no excess cables to deal with.

What the heck is a modular psu?

Z3l20,thanks for the pics.

 

[_l4st_chanC3__]

http://www.hardcoreware.net/reviews/review-231-1.htm

this is currently the best one available. you can also get one with UV lighting for about ten bucks more.

 

[stratcatprowlin]

Ahh I see. Looks like a nice feature to have. Thanks.

 

[gvblake22]

yeah, my power cables are sleaved with UV sleaving and its almost like they organize themselves! (no, its not the UV that makes them organized )
If that is too much work for you, then you could just use a lot of zip ties
I have them sleeved and still use a bunch of zip ties, the sleeving is nice because the ones that you really CANNOT move out of the way now look ok so its all good I also found buying extensions for the cables helped a lot to re-route them all over the case behind drive cages and stuff before they finally ended at the necessary component.
GOOD LUCK

 

[Valk]

I would definatly consider getting some wire sleeving going because although it isnt always visible, you know its there and you probably want it to be neat and tidy. I have done two sleeve jobs;

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the way you have everything arranged there, I think you can get away with stuffing ALL of your main power cables UNDER your motherboard. I have my gpu line, p4 line and my frontpanel and lighting power running underneth the mobo. my board has a tray, but no holes to really stuff stuff under.
you would have to take the board out, but you just string them between the risers and tape them down.
you can do this with your fanwiring as well. as for those drive cables... well. you have a lot of drives so there really isnt a whole lot you can do more than stuffing them away between your drives.

its not a horrible mess. nothing a little duct tape wouldnt fix =)

 

[stratcatprowlin]

TX so much guys for sharing the pics and the advice.I really appreciate it.

 

[RoadWarrior]

Somehow, it's taken me years to get the hang of it. Some things I've found that help...

Start off a rewire with as many wires just thrown outside the case as possible, can't rewire nicely if you're snagging other wayward cables while trying to get one in place.

ATX power first, seperate it from all the drive power cables, try teasing the wires out a bit from under any cable ties that are on it so they're not bunched funny (Sometimes you get a couple sticking out in a loop and making the whole thing messier) now, plug it into the mobo, grab the middle of the spare wire, twist it into a loop, and slip it under either the edge of the mobo or behind the PSU if there's room on the backside.

Drive power cables, wire your drives from the top down, don't be using the middle power connector on your bottomost drive, use the middle ones on the highest drives. Take the cables the long way round, across the top of the case, to the edge of the drive bays, then run them down the edge of the drive bays, tieing them down. middle connector to the top drive, next connector to one under it, etc...

Fans, run all the fans off one drive connector and route the wiring along the back edges of the case, you're kind of going clockwise with the drive connectors round the top and down the bays, then anticlockwise with the fan cables, down the back edge and along the bottom if necessary.

now, you should have all the power cables in, and PLENTY of room and space to work with for your interface cables. These are only difficult if you've not done too good a job with the power. Try and figure which cable would be best to start with. It varies a lot by motherboard, some are nasty and have all the drive connectors bunched too close. Use black belt origami on the flatties, or just try the "follow the edges" approach with rounded.

my 0.02 on wirejobs,

Road Warrior

 

[Dreamcaster]

Here's another pic for you

It dosn't take that long to do long as you plan what you are going to do before you do it

 

[stratcatprowlin]

Thank you RoadWarrior.Very in depth guide there!

Dreamcaster that pc looks incredible!

 

[diehrd]

Did ya get this cleand up ? Pic ////

 

[SolidxSnake]

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=367823

look there, at my pics... see what i did to tie everything up... since i got a windowed case, i put some behind the right of my drive bay, so i couldn't see them... my ATX 20pin is going into the mobo connector, then pulled the wire up between my first cd-rom, and then just let it stay there... it stayed up for me... my AUX connector is twist-tied up and hanging up where the slack of my ATX 20Pin is... then, since i got the 4 molexes, i got two going to the top... the top connector there goes to the first dvd-burner, then i got a y-splitter and then an extension, so the cd-burner and the harddrive plug in... and the floppy is also on that line... then i tied up the slack with a twist tie, and tied that to a hole in the drive bay... so i slipped the twist tie through a hole, brought the wire close to it, and bunched it up neatly (like when you get a wire from a manfctr. they have the wire bent in a "figure 8" style bend... i did that) and then wrapped the twisttie around... since its a twisttie, i can untie it whenever and reuse it...... then for my front fans and my front case lights... THOSE are ALL connected to eachother on the other side of my case.. then i got one molex going there connecting those.... for the back/side fans and my neon, those are hooked up the the last molex (the same line my front fans are connected to).. that you can see, and all those are chained up... then those are twisttied in the same method... then the last thing is the P4 connector... i have that going right between my power supply and my zalman 7000cu into the P4 connector... now my case is kinda messy again (the usb headers and the power switch plugs)... remember, stuff up some empty drive bays if there are no fans there

anyway, after you clean more, PICS PICS PICS!!

 

[stratcatprowlin]

Thanks for the rundown SolidxSnake.Your case is very similar to mine.Except it's neater! OK when it's all done I will post the pics.

 

[shellshock]

Dreamcaster, nice pc man