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    Re: Cable Tidying - Advice needed

    As long as the corsair HX 520W.. almost exactly the right length. You can get extending cables though.

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    Re: Cable Tidying - Advice needed

    Just in case you want to see another pic of good cable tidying



    Courtesy of oxygen200000 in this thread http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums...ic.php?t=46143

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    Re: Cable Tidying - Advice needed

    This is here as well somwhere in the case mod's section somewhere to, It's very nice.. totally cheating but very nice

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    Re: Cable Tidying - Advice needed

    Quote Originally Posted by staffsMike View Post
    This is here as well somwhere in the case mod's section somewhere to...
    must have missed it

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    Re: Cable Tidying - Advice needed

    I like to use spiral wrap in my pc builds, you can get it from MAPLINS



    Just ordered some different sata cables to try and tidy that area up.

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    Re: Cable Tidying - Advice needed

    s3ds wow you have unleashed your PC's inner beauty upon the rest of us and its terrifying!!! I can't see where half of those cables go! Funny thing is, airflow doesn't seem to be constricted so it's OK

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    Re: Cable Tidying - Advice needed

    Quote Originally Posted by staffsMike View Post
    This is what it looks like now

    haha mine is better than that*, and my psu is non-modular

    *given I need to connect 2x 6 pin PCIe to my graphics and you dont

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    Re: Cable Tidying - Advice needed

    That is a non modular PSU and your case is easy

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    Re: Cable Tidying - Advice needed

    Quote Originally Posted by staffsMike View Post
    That is a non modular PSU and your case is easy
    My case is not easy, its very hard to get
    Oh noes I have gone down to mike's level of nekkid case thinking

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    Quote Originally Posted by SiM View Post
    My case is not easy, its very hard to get
    Oh noes I have gone down to mike's level of nekkid case thinking
    Haha. Did you sort that one cable in the end? It was real ugly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by staffsMike View Post
    Haha. Did you sort that one cable in the end? It was real ugly.
    Yeh I rotated the psu to make it fit... but now my PSU runs very hot because it gets less air

    You cam now sleep at night

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    Quote Originally Posted by SiM View Post
    Yeh I rotated the psu to make it fit... but now my PSU runs very hot because it gets less air
    No way of getting a bit more air to it? Remember that CM-690 with the the PSU that was on the piss.. you could do that lol

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    Re: Cable Tidying - Advice needed

    Quote Originally Posted by staffsMike View Post
    No way of getting a bit more air to it? Remember that CM-690 with the the PSU that was on the piss.. you could do that lol
    my case can't do that unless I remove all 4 screws... there must be some sort of extender cable for 8 pin mobo power...

    aaahh http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?...=14&doy=search

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    Re: Cable Tidying - Advice needed

    Cheers... cheapest is here as far as i can see
    http://www.cclonline.com/product-inf...acturer_id=20#

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    Re: Cable Tidying - Advice needed

    Looks good

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