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investigation as a whole sometimes you'll see comments online where someone will be like your cooling's going to be terrible cuz you left a few cables going in front of those fans so we're going to check that out I don't know the answer yet let's test everything live Intel brings ddr4 to the main stream with their new core i76700 K and core i56600k processors check out the link in the video description to learn more okay so test one is going to be uh well pretty good in terms of cable management like this should be our Benchmark for clean Cable Management it's not the best that has ever been done but it's at the point where I think it's not going to affect the cooling in any way so this is pretty bare in terms of setup for cooling we have a hyper 212 Evo finally I'm not putting it in a T4 and pretending it's a 212 Evo thank you atmt grimes5 on Twitter for sending this to me by the way emailed that to me directly cuz he was tired of me complaining about not having one so there's one fan on there there's one 140 mm fan in the front there's a 140 mm fan in the back and there's two 120 mm fans in the top so this will be our base Benchmark for how this computer is able to perform with pretty good Cable Management we we will then record its numbers and then I'll start messing with the cables more and making it Messier and Messier and just see how far the rabbit hole goes so I've got the case all closed up and now I'm doing some testing so this is going to be run for about 10 minutes total I'm running furmark on the GPU and recording temperatures of the GPU using MSI After Burner and then I'm doing a system stability test with ID to 64 in order to push the CPU so this should heat everything up and get us to a relatively hopefully High number um although this isn't a particularly hot graphics card and the hyper 212 Evo is probably going to do fine because nothing's actually overclocked and then uh we'll start throwing more cables in there and messing around okay so results of the first tests are in again this is more just a benchmark for the rest of the benchmarks this is where like okay there's no real cable obstructions going on so our CPU is at about 50° and our GPU is at about 82° so we're going to document that make the cables a little bit worse and move on okay so I've added some cables I haven't added an insane amount of cables I have three big thick ones going across the front I have one going kind of through the middle and then I have one placed as a pseudo not very well-managed eight pin going like across over the power supply by the back of the CPU Cooler and then up to where the eight pin placement would be I don't expect this is going to fect much but I haven't tried it yet so let's figure it out okay so this one's good to go well okay let's be clear if you're building your own system don't leave your cable management that crappy but it's good to go for this test for what I need it to do right now so walking over to this screen I'm now going to set the test back up so yet again fur Mark for the GPU stress test and then starting Ida 64 for the CPU another 10 minutes we'll record the numbers and see how it did see if it actually affected anything I'm kind of thinking it won't or at least not very much so that did absolutely nothing 50° on the CPU still 82° on the GPU we're going to have to make this Cable Management a lot worse that's going to be the next step I'm going to add like maybe most of this and we'll see what happens side panel's on fur Mark is set up Ida 64 is already running this test is a go I know I've said this a few times already but if this doesn't produce a result there's probably not a ton that I can even do to be completely honest and one of the results from this video might be if you have a standard kind of Tower and cable management probably isn't that important if you have something like a no 202 or you have that bomb that I built for the Fallout build check that video up here then it probably matters because if you're completely blocking off all of the air inputs that'll be an issue but on a big case like this there's enough just open areas that the air is probably going to flow um but who knows we'll see soon 10-minute test okay so no change at all CPUs at 50 graphics cards at 82 so yeah seems like if you have a mid Tower you're probably fine in terms of K management so we're just going to have some fun I'm going to put a Snoopy in there a twitch t-shirt a roll of tape an iron a Santa hat and maybe that'll do something God oops I don't know where I'm going to put all this stuff now if your cable management is so bad that you put a Snoopy of Santa hat and iron and a twitch t-shirt in your case we'll see how much that'll affect your airf flow system stability oh I forgot the tape it's okay while the tests are running I'm going to add the last part that I forgot to add which was the roll of tape I'm sure lonus is totally okay with all the things I'm doing right now nice um I don't know where I can put it that's probably fine that's okay that's probably okay now we're rocking roller tape Snoopy iron Santa hat twitch t-shirt let's do this tests are currently running let's see how they're going the CPU is currently at 50° and the GPU is currently at 74 what the hell what okay okay so it's actually doing fine right now which is really concerning uh I guess we're going to leave it for 10 minutes and then we'll be back 50° on the CPU 82° on the GPU I put a shirt a Santa hat a Snoopy an iron and a giant roll of tape along with every single cable that came with a 1200i into a case and it didn't affect anything thing next up is boxes I'm going to take all this stuff out maybe put some of it back in but use a lot of solid boxes to try to completely block off airflow Pathways I want some numbers to go up okay so we used the box for the CPU Cooler and we used boxes for a bunch of water coolers there's one under here or water blocks there's one under here there's one to support that and keep it where it is there's one blocking the top fans there's one blocking the black back fans so basically every single fan has a box currently trying to stop it from being able to work properly except for I guess this one there now there's a Santa hat screwing with that one now that we've done all this I'm going to put the case panel back wait hold up hold up hold up can move that out of the way all right I'm going to put the case panel back on I'm going to close this up I'm already running the tests I didn't even stop them because nothing's changed this whole freaking time so we're currently running furmark and currently running Ida 64 I'm going to come over here and see if there's been any immediate changes the GPU has not increased in temperature despite having a shirt shoved into it and a box under it but it looks like we have a slight in increase in CPU temperatures oh good we'll check back in 10 minutes we did it by adding four boxes for water blocks one box for hyper 212 Evo a T-shirt and a Santa hat effectively putting crap directly in front of every single fan there is we have gotten the CPU to about 77° and we've gotten the GPU to 86° done so yes in the end it took four boxes for water blocks it took one box for a CP cooler it took a t-shirt a Santa hat and all of these cables in addition to the cables that were already inside which totals a pile that looks something like this placed into the computer in addition to the required components to heat it up so your bad cable management in your mid Tower is probably fine this didn't include tests for things like really really small cases or very specific builds like the bomb we have or something like a node 202 or like an rvz01 from Silverstone but yeah it's probably fine if your C management is bad but like I don't know how to word this because don't just use that as an excuse to have bad kill management we don't want ugly computers it's not a good idea don't post a build log on the Forum 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