yeah I built my own PC. How could you tell?

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.

Personally I hate RGB. It gives me a headache
- 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.
It'll work, but in a few years those cables will be full of dust.

I don't see a problem here.

PS: My opinion on PC innards was formed during the reign of IDE cables.

Mmmmmmmm..... ketchup and mustard 🤤
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Just shove the excess cabling into the 5.25" Bay area so you can shut the case

Full of my hard drive and SSD :/
- 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

Feels

I love it

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I always started out “Imma hide all these cables and make the insides perfect!”

By the time I’d run all the power, fan, IDE, front case, USB, etc. I was like fuckit, I just want to get this thing running. Half-assed jammed the cables out of the way or behind the case ITX backing. Looks like shit, put the case side back on, off I go.

Lots easier now with far fewer cables to be run, cases offer more space behind the mobo for hiding cables and not the 3/4” of space they used to offer.

Lots easier now with far fewer cables to be run, cases offer more space behind the mobo for hiding cables and not the 3/4” of space they used to offer.

That's why I only use cube cases nowadays. Just shove all cables into the back and you're done.

Imagine telling someone around 2015, with Intel dominating CPU sales and AMD competing toe-to-toe with Nvidia in the GPU market, that you are using an Intel GPU with your AMD CPU. The times, they are a changing

Why did you put an 850W power supply in that? You could probably put a 650W that's much nicer for the same price.

It was on sale and I thought "eh what the hell I'll upgrade sometime down the road"
- Yeah, as long as you're pulling more than like 20% of the rated power then having a slightly overspec power supply is only going to bring you good things.

Honestly I can't. Looks like those from the store.

If no side window, who cares, let it be messy! Call it your sleeper office PC.

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

A case with actual drive bays and ribbon cables everywhere, it if wasn't for that AMD Wraith cooler I'd think I was looking at a machine from 20 years ago.

I could tell because every internal connection isn't hot glued in place.

I had the opposite problem building mine, if I tried to cable manage* I couldn't close the case because there was too much slack

*hiding all the cables in the back panel

How is the Intel arc treating you op? Is it actually good for general purpose nowadays, or still a lot in beta phase?

Sorry I didn't check my inbox for 4 months but it's been treating me really well ish... The problem right now is the drivers on Linux aren't caught up so for some games like marvel rivals I have to use Windows to play even though marvel rivals works on Linux with any other card lol. I'm hopeful but the more I look into it makes me a little more scared because it seems they have two separate drivers and I'm not sure if they're updating the drivers for the a series anymore which they should it's not an old card it's just that they moved to a new driver a whole new code base but we'll see

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.

I feel so seen.

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.

How did you get access to my pc???
- Wi-fi connection.

How's the Intel GPU treating ya? Looks awesome!

Pretty good so far it does get a little hot but never thermal throttles. Drivers for it on Linux are kind of poop right now. And I'm not sure if they forgot about it because they made a whole new driver and a whole new code base for their new b series cards so some games like marvel rivals still won't launch with the a series

I love PC parts branded "sparkle". I had a Sparkle power supply and I just hoped I would never see a magic blue sparkle.

I suggest buying a bigger cpu cooler.

It's perfectly fine for that core duo.

(But actually, stock amd coolers are normally totally adequate)

What's this "cable management" thing?

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"