My cable management is so bad I can’t close my case but I don’t care

  • shoulderoforion
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    1124 hours ago

    As long as you can close the case, and the cables don’t get caught in the fans, it’s perfect inside.

  • luciole (he/him)
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    121 day ago

    I can tell this isn’t a prebuilt because your PSU isn’t a sus nondescript metal box.

    • @VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      11 hours ago

      Yeah, though as someone who has a thermaltake psu - depending on the model and sku, it might as well be.

      Also, the non-descript psus from SIs that also do servers tend to be pretty solid, from experience.

  • @TwistedPear@lemmy.world
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    301 day ago

    Unpopular opinion, but I just get a solid side panel and do minimal to no cable management. I don’t care about rgb or if the insides look pretty.

    Steer clear of the fans and it’s all good.

      • @Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works
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        14 hours ago

        Yeah I don’t get it, don’t you want the only light be coming from the lamp and the monitor?

        Imagine if cinemas had RBG on every seat.

        • @fishbone@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          122 minutes ago

          I bought a ton of RGB stuff cause I thought it was neat back in the day, then realized most of it is just annoying. Now I put it to use instead. Color coded keys on the keyboard (All alphabet keys one color, all punctuation a slightly different color, etc.), and and rgb light on my mobo that’s tied to my GPU temp.

          30c: cyan

          50c: green

          60c: yellow

          75c: red

          Makes it easy to have a general idea of my temps when playing games.

  • @cygnus@lemmy.ca
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    151 day ago

    Eeeewww. You know there’s a panel on the other side to hide all that, right?

    • @RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world
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      61 day ago

      If this is a proprietary case (such as those from Dell, HP, etc), which it looks like this is, then it probably doesn’t.

      My suggestion is to get even a bargain bin $50 case and switch to that quickly. Far less limiting and probably has cable management components all over.

      • @kitnaht@lemmy.world
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        220 hours ago

        The Montech cases are really good, come with 6 RGB fans preinstalled, and a glass side (not plexi)

    • @Masta_Chief@lemmy.world
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      111 day ago

      I haven’t seen a case since like 2014 that didn’t have the cable management on the other side but like like OPs case doesn’t. Hard to tell from here

      • @secret300@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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        161 day ago

        It don’t. I’ve had this case for awhile, got it out the dump of an office building and just kept upgrading it.

    • @lost_faith@lemmy.ca
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      15 hours ago

      It is where someone, who will most likely never have to do something inside that box ever again, gets to over tighten everything so the plugs are held in by sheer force of will and there is not enough slack left to add a sata ssd.

      Nope, I didn’t have my last machines wires “managed”

    • @Sturgist@lemmy.ca
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      416 hours ago

      I have a side window, and still don’t give a fuck about cable management. Pc lives under a desk, dust be damned!

  • @yuri@pawb.social
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    26 hours ago

    i always just hang shit somewhere it won’t impede airflow and let it be. the ONE time i bought a prebuilt system was the only time i’ve had a computer with the cables remotely “managed”.

    unfortunately one of the zip ties they used impeded the fan on the cpu cooler, but only when the case was closed. it made this buzzing noise that i couldn’t track down for months, and then the motherboard failed. and then the replacement motherboard failed.

    i went back to building my own computers again after that.

      • @Cort@lemmy.world
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        23 hours ago

        I think that’s the 3.5" Bay you’re referring to. The 2 cd/dvd drive bays at the top should be big enough to cram the wires in

          • @Cort@lemmy.world
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            22 hours ago

            I haven’t looked in years, but you used to be able to get covers or dust filters that popped into 5.25 bays for a few bucks.

            Also, those cables are flat, so you might be able to fold them in half and put them under the cd drive, but above the storage drives

  • qyron
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    216 hours ago

    If it works, good. That is what matters. Just remember to clean it every once in a while. I’ve seen fully dust and lint clogged heatsinks before.

  • @zib@lemmy.world
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    1122 hours ago

    Well, the important thing is that the cables aren’t impeding the flow of air around the parts that get hot. It doesn’t look like they are, so I don’t see a problem.

    • Tywèle [she|her]
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      315 hours ago

      The only thing that matters is that the cables don’t get caught up in any fans. Other than that you can stuff as many cables in a PC case as you want and it won’t impact temperatures by much (maybe 1 or 2 degrees Celsius). JayzTwoCents made a video about that. Cables don’t really impact air flow.