3w ago

Is it possible to organise the cable cleanly in this pc?

The pc does not have back compartment, nor anyway to attack the cable to. What I am thinking right now is to hot glue some zip ties to the centre gap between HDD and mb. And then zip ties the cable to the zip tie, so it runs down the centre of the pc cleanly and branches out to its destination like a upside-down tree.

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I don't think there's much you can do, nor would there be much of a point to it. It doesn't look like the cables are currently blocking the airflow and you're not going to get the inside of this case look aesthetically pleasing anyway. Presumably the side panel isn't glass either, so you'll basically never see it. Personally I'd just close it up and forget about it.
- It's also going to make repairs harder since youll need to undo the cables and then fix them again when finished.
- Yeah, exactly.
  Cable management is for three reasons: airflow, maintainability, and aesthetics. None of those are needed here, so just put the case on and call it good.
  Computers of this era weren't meant to be looked at!
No. Close it up.
Longer cables? It looks fine to me, mine looks like a magpie nest with SSDs somewhere in there not even screwed to anything.
- there's no SSD in this, that hard drive is in a bracket.
Looming the wires along with segmenting the ribbon would do a lot to clean things up.
You can improve the situation somewhat but you’re never going to get a prebuilt like that as clean as you see other people’s diy builds with parts chosen taking aesthetics into account.
To get anywhere I think you'd need an extension for the 4 pin CPU power cable. That one going diagonal is the worst thing here and zip ties can't fix it.
Let me introduce you to the lost art of cablegami.
https://www.overclockers.com/forums/threads/bah-who-needs-round-cables.370152/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYDM7CQQ4wE
Cable management is like a puzzle.
My advice is to image search "PC cable management" for inspiration then detach all cables and start puzzling.
I hope when you say "hot glue zip ties", you mean hot gluing a sticky zip tie mount such as this
Otherwise you're a monster :p
are you ready running an IDE drive?
Yes, but only people who are super OCD about cable management would spend the time. I have a buddy who's really good at cable management. You could bring your computer to California and maybe he'll do it for you if you buy him lunch.

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