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Corrugated tube for cable management?

YellowDragon

So I decided that I wanted to redo my current ITX build as I am not completely satisfied with my Lian Li- PC 200 case due to the lack of airflow and the inability to use graphics cards with custom coolers. This prevents me from using a decent cooler for overclocking and causes a problem because I do want to get into watercooling eventually. I decided and ordered a new case, The Dframe Mini and one common complaint is keeping cables tidy and look nice, I was looking into custom sleeved power supply cables bit for a good set it was coming out to be $130, so I was thinking would it be possible to use corrugated tubing for the cable management, if so what diameter would be appropriate and what would your thoughts be on the appearance vs custom sleeved cables, just mainly looking for opinions and thoughts as I plan this out.

 

Here is the case, I would like to stick with the color theme

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Here is a picture of the tubing I think blue would work as an accent color and give it a more "industrial" look, was thinking with the psu cables they would look like cooling lines.

 

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For the D fame-since it's such an open case cable management would be a big thing personally, I think it would look great with custom sleeving but managing it is very important to keep everything lined up and organized, as for using a corrugated tube I don't see any issues with that just be sure to get the split loom version or you will need to take off a connector on ones end to thread the tube into place.  

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We use convoluted tubing to route wires in weird areas in the aerospace/defense sector. in order to determine sizing, just figure out all the wires passing through it and add up the diameters. I would recommend not sleeving at all and just route the wires at the appropriate lengths.

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