Back Panel Cable Management Gore

[Bayou]

So uh, in case anyone wanted some back panel cable management gore, here you go.

 

I built this system around 3 years ago, it's now my secondary system, got too lazy to cable manage (haven't cable managed on my current system either and it's probably even worse).

 

Is there some kind of trick to this? Am I alone in this kind of issue? I just always kind of lived under the idea of "if I don't see it, it won't bother me"

 

 

[Poinkachu]

1 hour ago, Dustinn said:

"if I don't see it, it won't bother me"

Nothin' wrong with that.

 

I mainly do detailed cable management for my new system because I was bored, and would like to see how far I can go with it.

Had a lot of time while waiting until GPU arrives

 

PC Case free space & cable length matters. My new case & PSU has a lot of it (though I am using less cables on new PC since it no longer uses 3x8pins. Cable type kinda matters too (as you can see on my old PC with HX1000 Platinum)

My old case is quite an old model of case, didn't have much space. Had to really press on the side panel before securing it using screws, to make it fit into the case and stays there.

 

Basically, just route it as well as you can, with less going across other cables as you can.

Secure with velcro / zip tie

 

I mainly try to separate cables to some categories, then place the ones that I might need to take off often in the future for whatever reasons on the top most of the pile / at somewhere more accessible, or completely separated if possible. So I won't have to de-secure a bunch of cables and re-secure and re-route 10 just to deal with 3.

Like : 24pins is the less likely to be tampered with for a long long time, so it goes on the bottom of the bundle.

fan cables stays with fan cables from the same area, then secured in separate area from the rest. Top fans cables bundles together, and separated from bundles of bottom fans cable, etc.

 

Usually that made me end up with SATA data & power cable going across other bundles, on top of bundles of cables. Followed by GPU power cable.

 

 

NewPC :

 

Old PC: