Cable management suggestions?

[Mandrewoid]

Hey LTT forum! This is my first thread! though not my first post. I've a few PC's in the past, but this is my first 'nice' build, and my first experience with a side panel window. In fact, this InWin case has an entirely glass side panel, but wait! There's more! Both side panels are glass, so no matter what you do the side panels will show some cables somewhere. There isn't a whole lot of room and I did what I thought was right, but my friends exclaimed "DEAR GOD, RE: THE CABLES" so I thought I'd reach out to the LTT forum for some advice.  Pictures in this imgur album : http://imgur.com/a/rcolw

[19_blackie_73]

zip ties do magic. Just zip tie them in a way that the are a nice bundle or two, and in a way that they are hidden by another component or at the tray

[Aereldor]

Use a plastic shroud to tuck the cables away. Or, you could hide them somewhere in the drive cage or behind the Power Supply, if there's enough room there.

 

I could be wrong, but the second glass panel won't show much, as the inside of the PC is going to be obscured by the motherboard tray, unless you have SSD mounts there you want to use to show off that sick RAID array.

 

Another cool concept is not to hide your cables at all, or to hide them in plain sight by making them look really great. If you have a modular power supply, consider some colour-coordinated cables from somewhere like CableMod, interlace them with thread at intervals of a few inches so the wires stay flat, and arrange them as you see fit.

 

I spy an AX850, which I do believe is modular.

[Mandrewoid]

I'll get a picture later, but the side panel on the back shows everything, all the cables that you normally have to shove the side panel down on in regular PC's. Because the whole side panel is glass. For example my cpu 8pin, runs up across the back of the board