Basically I have a microATX case and a non modular psu and the cables are everywhere. No amount of cable ties are going to solve the problem, the cables just need to be shorter! I have had a little bit of a search on google and seen some guides showing you how you can deattach the interface/connector on cables, shorten the cable and then re-attach the interface or, alternatively guides showing how you can just cut a middle section out of a cable and just crimp the end attached to the psu and the end with the interface on it back together and then wrap some thermal tape or something around it. Obviously the second method is much less neat asthetically but i am thinking if I just put some sleeving round it, it should look fine.
Just want to know which method is easiest safest and cheapest and what tools I should get to do it properly.
I am tempted by the crimping method (crimping is just clamping two wires together and then wrapping something round them to secure them right!?) because it seems the simplest and also the cheapest as I could just get a tool like this one right and I wouldn't need a soldering iron on anything like that, which some guides say you need to do it the other way!?
Also I am a bit worried about messing up the cables by doing this so I am thinking of just doing this with the PCI-e cables, 4 pin molexs cables and Sata cables. Think I might leave the 20+4 pin alone and the 8-pin cpu cable. If i just do those cables will the risk be alot lower.
Thanks in advance.