my best at cable managment

[almach1]

a couple of zip ties and being imaginative with the sata cables since the ports are in the worst possible position.

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[potato28]

Holy crap thats a nice wire job for the Cavalier!! I tryed with mine and failed misirably...

 

[pol II]

Ugh, those SATA ports ARE in an awful place. If you sleeve those SATA cables in black, I'll bet that it'll make things more subdued and less eye-catching...

 

[AznAnarchy99]

yea who puts sata ports in the middle of the board?

 

[almach1]

good idea about sleeving them. next time i'm at the store i'll pick some sleeving up..

 

[CheesePoofs]

damn, thats pretty nice. I wish I could put in the time to do that. Unfortunately, I get too impatient with my wiring, and I really dont' care enough. As long as they're mostly out of the way of the fans ....

 

[drwngflies]

Originally posted by: AznAnarchy99
yea who puts sata ports in the middle of the board?

GigaByte Does, for one
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y99/drwngflies/SupportBracket.jpg
But the SATAII connectors are near bottom.

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: AznAnarchy99
yea who puts sata ports in the middle of the board?

Plenty of Nforce3 boards were like that, I think just copying the reference design.

Sleeving or using split loom doesn't make the cabling any cleaner, but will make it look cleaner, which is also a GoodThing?.

Kudos!

 

[fireontheway]

Not bad.

 

[GalvanizedYankee]

Looking good.

Worth the look, thanks for posting.


...Galvanized

 

[almach1]

thanks, guys, i've had two nf3 mobos and they both had the sata ports there. thanks for the compliments.

 

[almach1]

some people said it still looks like crapola.

 

[B95P]

Nice work

 

[fireontheway]

Originally posted by: almach1
some people said it still looks like crapola.

Just keep in mind that you cannot please everybody and that there is always room for improvement .

 

[pacostacos]

Impressive, but no matter where the SATA ports are located, they are a hell of a lot easier to deal with than Ultra ATA. Mine was such a cluttered mess for a while that my CPU kept overheating because there was no ventilation. I finally replaced the ATA ribbons with actual round cables and it has been much better, but still looks like "crapola" in comparison.

 

[amd200mhz]

Good job, dude!