welcome back to the workshop last time we were here testing something I believe
it was how many case fans do you need and in what position today we're going
to be doing another cooling investigation video this one is going to
be based on cable management so we're going to look into uh how much it
actually affects your cooling now there's a little bit of a problem here
which is where most cases these days are actually pretty damn good and have a lot
of space behind the motherboard and have like very clear ways that you're
supposed to Route the cables which isn't in places that would affect the cooler
so you're probably fine but this is more
of an 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
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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 and go like lol Luke
told me it was okay to have terrible Cable Management because it's not going
to increase my thermals very
much just do it properly everything will be fine apacer is giving away five
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SATA internally if you want to do it that way thanks for watching this video
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I had to do to get to the conclusion was necessarily what anyone expected but I
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