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in our very popular and not at all infamous series the workshop we did an

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episode where we demonstrated that cable management tucking away all your cables

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in most cases pun intended has no tangible effect on performance or even

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cooling so then

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when we set out to do this cable management guide sponsored by our

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buds over at cablemod we figured well hell if deep down it's just about

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the looks let's make sure it looks as good as it can so here

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is how to cable manage like a pro

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the first thing we needed was a test subject so we borrowed our triple headed

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vr project machine it already

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looked reasonably clean from the front but as for the backside

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well ivan's excuse was

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i was russian

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now in fairness to him though this machine has six hard drives

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seven RGB fans with individual leads to

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their respective light controllers and to make matters worse its older style

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900d chassis has no power supply shroud

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so there is a visible rat's nest down at the bottom to tame the overgrowth then

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we'll need some tools we recommend a pair of side cutters a set of small and

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large zip ties and some double sided tape

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and also some basic cable mesh or sleeving goes a long way

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next you need to visualize

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remember guys to have your wiring looking its best you need to avoid any

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diagonal lines and try to minimize crossings

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so you can't just start tucking things away without a clear end goal in your

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mind's eye in fact this is so important

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that if you're having trouble i would legitimately suggest that you draw it

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out in paint if you need keeping in mind of course that due to

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small variances it is likely that you'll end up having to make a few tweaks as

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you go next assuming that you're working on a system

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that's already built begin by yanking out the larger cables completely to get

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them out of the way and cleaning up the small ones with your small zip ties

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you should use existing case crevices to hide these small cables and you can also

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use that empty cavity behind where dvd drives used to go remember those ah

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that's so that's a good spot to hide the extra length of front i o cables

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on the motherboard side use memory slot lines to hide your runs and then while

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you're at all of this keep in mind where your thicker runs will go

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you can use those to hide your thin runs later on

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planning pro tip number one leave the SATA cables

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for last because the drive side connectors in particular are really

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flimsy and they are surprisingly easy to accidentally break off while you're

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running or tightening something else pro tip number two sometimes rotating a

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fan can give its cable a cleaner run pro

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tip number three label your fan connectors this makes it

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easier to reconfigure your airflow and your RGB patterns once it's not obvious

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anymore which cables belong to which fan

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pro tip number four if you have a modular power supply

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hide your unsightly power supply side modular cables in the cavity behind the

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psu tip number five if you can't hide a thin

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cable run some basic wire mesh makes it look a lot more professional and

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flattening the run beforehand helps to avoid

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snake meal mesh bulbs tip number six

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replace your existing double-sided tape on things like your RGB controllers it

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might still be residually sticky but it is much more likely to fall off after a

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re-application than not hot glue is also

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a pretty good one here if you've been following along so far

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you're well on your way but you've probably run into some situations

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where you have no choice but to commit a cardinal sin

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sometimes your stock cables are simply too short to avoid diagonal lines ah

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what will you do so one way around this is to use the

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area between the motherboard and the case's motherboard tray wherever

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possible this technique is also popular for making the front i o cables look

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cleaner on the motherboard side just make sure you don't put anything too

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bulky in there flex is not good for your

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motherboard as for your graphics card you've got a couple of options here you can run the

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power cables from the top down for a

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little bit of sag support or you can run them from underneath for

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a cleaner look we opted for the straight down method

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since the extra two pci express power pins ended up looking really ugly

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otherwise there is also the new option by the way

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of using a vertical GPU adapter but

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these are for single card setups only they are somewhat reliant on case

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compatibility and the last issue our machine has more than

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one GPU so a time lapse later and using all the

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tips that we just gave you you can behold then the fruits of our labor our

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system looks way cleaner both from the front and from the back

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so thanks for watching no actually i'm just kidding this wouldn't be much of an

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ultimate guide without some custom cables from cablemod would it now for

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many people only frontside looks are important so cablemod extensions are a

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quick easy and relatively inexpensive way to spruce up your machine's looks

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you only need a few of them to make a noticeable difference to the look of

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most machines for others though

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extensions are about like putting a park bench on a civic and calling it a

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spoiler so for them there are the pre-packaged cable mod replacement kits

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which are available in a variety of colors and patterns and for pretty much

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every modular power supply model under the sun we are going one step further

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cable mods ultimate offering custom length and colored cables

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so to get out your system the first thing you need to do is measure your run

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lengths but you can't just do this any old way like don't use a string

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we actually recommend using a wire so we cut a 12 gauge wire because this helps

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simulate the way that the custom cables will actually bend once they're

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installed we're also going to try to address the clump of pci express cables by the power

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supply by calculating which cables we can run

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hidden behind others it's important to

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get each length of run exactly right and

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make sure you're checking exactly the terminal that you'll use

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because if you measure them all to the same one the end result might not align

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as perfectly as you might like with our lengths in hand we dialed them

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into the configurator which allows details like the number of pre-installed

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combs and distance between SATA connectors and then about a week later

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our pro cables with thicker wires and pre-installed combs arrived

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when you're hooking these up we actually suggest pre-bending the cables into the

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desired shape before you install them it helps more than you might think

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then right last but not least we mentioned cable combs but you should

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probably explain those cable combs can be used not only to keep your

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individually sleeved wires apart but to ensure that parallel runs are

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indeed parallel and they stay there

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okay then so since all the cables were pre-made to length installing them was

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an absolute breeze and this

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is our real end result so as you can see

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the front looks cleaner the clump on the bottom is minimized and

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then the biggest difference is on the back especially when you look at the

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before and after i mean it went from something that we'd really rather hide

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to something we'd actually want to show off i mean maybe that's the next trend

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in computer cases Windows on both sides oh wait they've actually been doing that

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