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Rookie

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how do you people get your power cables so neat? I have the following:
one HDD (SATA)
one DVD (SATA)
three powered blue-lit cables
GPU power
two case fans
and my power cables are a mess. I need to tidy it up with some cable ties or something. I'm going to try to daisy-chain all my cables off of one molex. My zalman needs room!

edit: for format.
 

columbiaflier

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Jan 26, 2005
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Originally posted by: Rookie
how do you people get your power cables so neat? I have the following:
one HDD (SATA)
one DVD (SATA)
three powered blue-lit cables
GPU power
two case fans
and my power cables are a mess. I need to tidy it up with some cable ties or something. I'm going to try to daisy-chain all my cables off of one molex. My zalman needs room!

edit: for format.

I believe connecting all of your power cables to one single molex is a very bad idea.
 

Azndude51

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Sep 26, 2004
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Originally posted by: charlietee
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After looking at Dynamix's rig I am almost ashamed to post my pics...Man talk about setting the bar high.

A work of art for sure...Now I know why there is all this discussion and not many people posting pics...SkyBum has it going on too !!!!

Geezzz...Makes me feel like taking mine down...Oh well...Let er rip tater chip !!!!

Yours doesn't look taht great from the outside (no door, black drives on gray case), but the multicolored UV cabling looks awesome.
 

charlietee

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"Yours doesn't look taht great from the outside (no door, black drives on gray case), but the multicolored UV cabling looks awesome. "

Yeah the silver drives I really did not like because they are lighter than the case...So I opted for black...Gave my door to a friend who broke his...Works good...The 120m/m fan blowing on the backside of the motherboard...Modded to take 2 92's up front and the 92m/m blow hole...She works...Great air cooling set-up for Prescotts...I have built several box's using this same setup with Prescott's that hit 4GHz with acceptable temps.

The cap is off of the P4 Northwood and has one of the temperatue probes mounted like you would on a AMD processor...When you first fire it up the CPU temp runs up to about 35 degrees C...But after running for a few minutes the probe that is just sitting in the top of the case is at 24.7 and temps on the one taped to the processor is sitting on 27.8...It works.

I guess with 3 80m/m...3 92m/m 7 volted and the 120 anything would run cool...If you like overclocking on air cooling I highly recommend putting a 120 blowing on the righ side of your case...Especially if you are hot roddin a Prescott.
 

Waylay00

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Originally posted by: Plumcuda1
Nothing special

Where I do my HL2 fraggin'

How do you like your Thermlatake Gamma Pad? I love mine!

To keep your case looking tidy, run some of your wires behind your mobo or mobo tray and use electric tape. That's what I did.
 

dashiki

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charlietee

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"I'm wondering what you guys use to sleeve your psu cables with I'd like them to be uv active. Also is a cold cathode a UV light? or do I need a different light?"

Cold cathode's are not UV black lights...So if you want to use UV sleeving and cables then you will need a different light setup if you are using cold cathode's.

I have tried every brand of sleeving I could get my hands on and TechFlex is easily the best...Second place is way...And I mean way back there...Vantech sleeving is a joke compared to TechFlex and the heat shrink is virtually worthless...Do yourself a favor and buy TechFlex.

I really like the Vastech dual 12" UV black light kit...Kinda hard to find the kits that have a rocker switch instead of a switch that mounts in one of the PCI slot covers in the back of the case.

SVC is usually a great place to find the light kits...Vantec supposedly is making UV black light kits but I have not been able to put my hands on any.

Performance-pcs is a good place to get the TechFlex UV sleeving by the foot...They used to sell the "Bright" Blue UV sleeving kits, but I have not seen it lately...The regular blue UV is kinda dull looking...If you like a multi-colored theme like I do you might consider buying your sleeving by the foot from performance-pcs

Vastech and TechFlex are my weapons on choice when doing a sleeving job...Case Arts also make a reasonalby inexpensive kit that has the ATX power connector tool which can be a real pain...The kit also has a 3-pin, male and female molex connector removal tool and the auxilary power connector also...Makes life much easier.
 

CraigRT

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Originally posted by: charlietee
Vantec supposedly is making UV black light kits but I have not been able to put my hands on any.

I have 2 Vantec UV cathodes in my system, pics on 1st page


I'll have to check out the Tech Flex stuff, I am still interested in getting some sleeving for another sys.

 

dev0lution

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Dec 23, 2004
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Front View

Dark w/lighting

Door Off

Just added the Zalman cooler and UV LED's today. Cables are still kind of a mess, as it was kind of a rushed attempt at a sleeving job. Need to finish the last couple of PSU wires and get busy with some cable routing once I get some more zip ties...
 

Ackmed

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Originally posted by: timrsl
Looks like the v2000 to me, the v1000's bigger brother.

hes right, it was a typo. I didnt notice it till I upped all the pics, and didnt feel like changing it and starting over.
 

Azndude51

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Sep 26, 2004
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If you're lazy, you can just buy a PSU like the OCZ Modstream or Ultra X-Connect which come with UV cables.
I got my UV Cold Cathode here. It's a pretty reliable site, good resellerrating. What I like about theirs is that they come with a PCI backplate with on/off switch.
Your case has some potential, but you need to do a better job with hiding and/or sleeving the cables since you have a window.


Can you put some pics of teh oustide of teh case?
 

dev0lution

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Dec 23, 2004
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Originally posted by: dashiki

I'm wondering what you guys use to sleeve your psu cables with I'd like them to be uv active. Also is a cold cathode a UV light? or do I need a different light?

There are UV cold cathodes, or you can go with UV LED strips. Logisys makes one and it comes with the PCI backplate for switching it on off or changing the light pattern. There's also UV "laser LEDs" which are a bit better for getting light coverage in specific areas of your case kind of like a spotlight.
 
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