Budget build and cable management hell

[IAmAndre]

So I just finished buiding my new PC which specs are the following:

• Ryzen 5 2600X
• MSI Vega 56 Air Boost
• 2x8GB Corsair Vengeance RAM at 3200Mhz
• MIS Tomahawk B450
• Samsung EVO 840 240GB
• Samsung RBX 120GB
• Seagate Barracuda 2TB
• Seagate Barracuda 1TB
• Case: Aerocool Shard
• CPU cooler: Arctic Freezer 34 Esports
• Front case fans: 3 x Arctic F12
• Rear case fan: Included 120mm Aerocool fan
• PSU: Bequiet! PurePower 11 400W
• Mouse: Logitech M550 Triathlon
• Keybord: Logitech K310
• Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster F2380

 This cable management isn't really ideal for cable management if you have 4 hard drives, because you ended with very little holes to pass the cables through. Here are a few shots:

 

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While it might look decent on this angle, with the front RGB LED's, the interior is a cable management mess. I was unable to screw one of the SSD because of that. I also noticed that I broke the internal USB 3.0 port by pushing too hard on it. 2 pins are broken so no front USB 3.0. Now I have to choose between buying a PCI USB 3.0 adapter or an NVME SSD. Buying one of which would eliminate the second option because of how the motherboard handles its ports

 

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I also noticed that the CPU was apparently automatically overclocked by the motherboard. It's supposed to run at 3.6GHZ/4.1GHz, but according to HWMonitor it's actually running at 4.1GHZ/4.5GHZ. Not sure what's going on here but I guess that's OK.

As for the temperatures, it's running at 60-70* when gaming, an in the 50's at idle. However the exhausted air is fairly hot, just like all the USB peripherals I plug in, which makes me wonder if I would get better temperatures by adding another exhaust fan.

Finally, I noticed that my USB Wifi adapter stops working when I plug in a USB stick in the port right next to it, which kinda sucks.

I am now looking forward to using a new PCI power cable because the power supply came with only one of these and the PC reboots when running benchmarks although I'm using the 150W BIOS. I've seen online that this could be because of the power lanes (of whatever is called) is saturated and using two actual cables rather than just one can help. 

I undervolted the GPU and I no longer have those power issues (I'm not sure why actually because while the voltage is lower I'm actually consuming more power than ever). I now have GTX 1080-like performance according to 3DMark 

Here are a few more pics of the setup.

 

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[AndrewB121]

You may be able to bend the USB 3.0 header pins back into shape with tweazers. There's no harm in trying right?

Also try routing the 24 pin motherboard power cable through the top hole to allow the SSD to be screwed in.

Try to tuck the fan cables on the left side behind the rear fan and the motherboard heatsink.

Use lots of cable ties to help organise a bit.

[IAmAndre]

12 minutes ago, AndrewB121 said:

You may be able to bend the USB 3.0 header pins back into shape with tweazers. There's no harm in trying right?

Yes I can give it a try at some point but as of now I don't care all that much because I have to USB 3 cable extenders on the desktop so I can live with that.

10 minutes ago, AndrewB121 said:

Also try routing the 24 pin motherboard power cable through the top hole to allow the SSD to be screwed in.

 

Try to tuck the fan cables on the left side behind the rear fan and the motherboard heatsink.

 

Use lots of cable ties to help organise a bit.

You're right I should have tried routing the cable through the top hole. I'm not if it would have worked because it was actually quite a challenge to route the CPU power cable. I'm happy that the glass is tinted so I can hide all this mess for now.

[IAmAndre]

On 7/30/2019 at 6:38 PM, AndrewB121 said:

Also try routing the 24 pin motherboard power cable through the top hole to allow the SSD to be screwed in.

So I opened the case again this morning to try your suggestion among other things and as you can see on the picture, even the top hole is very narrow. Today I was only able to re-route the PCI power cable behind the motherboard. I couldn't do the same with the motherboard power cable because it's too thick because of the sleeving so I wouldn't be able to screw the motherboard back to the case .

I also undervolted the GPU so no more power issues and I'm actually doing better than a GTX 1080 and a Vega 64 on average according to 3DMark.

[Akira Shimazu]

my budget build isn't surpassing 500$

[IAmAndre]

6 minutes ago, Wolfycapt said:

my budget build isn't surpassing 500$

TBF that's pretty much what i spent for the original build back in 2014, then I spent about the same in upgrades in late 2018 / early 2019.