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hello good people I'm Dimitri and today we're talking about my for easy cable management tips so you can have your system in nice and cool because remember having good cable management don't only will make your system look better for when the ladies come over or the gentlemen but you also have a cooler system because there's no interference on the interior with airflow and it also allows for easier upgrades down the line if you have to replace a drive or if you have to swap out some cables having things organized will make your life easier down the road now I'm no master but I've done my fair share of systems so I applied the same techniques over and over and they seem to work well for me and they're not like the pristine kind where each cable is individually has its own channel but this is primarily for to make sure that the interior is looking fine and the back panel can close without any force fred is coming along for the entire ride so let's begin right after this hi I'm looking for a case well look no further I got this beauty the H 700 by NZXT with all steel premium frame with a side of tempered glass - beautifully showcase any cooling adventure you might pursue and cable management system that you wish you had earlier all this lit up with integrated RGB lighting and built-in fan control the Aged 700 I this one's for you I'll take it all right so let's begin by the way if you have not seen our 15 tips on building computer video make sure to check it out over there but first step for cable management comes using your motherboard to conceal cables this is something that I've been doing for a while but now as motherboards get a little bit more complex in terms of their design and like they have a lot more things kind of on top of them it actually helps with cable management so you can normally do this with fan cables you can wrap them around Ram slots cooler mounting the heatsink and use the case cavities to hold excess cables normally for the fan cables and you can route smaller cables below the larger ones to hide them and to also hold them and some motherboard components can also be good to route cables around them to create this nice controlled path this is superb and this is super beneficial for like all the coolers that have a thousand cables purring out from the pump area and you can easily route everything and I'll be kind of worried about where all those cables will go tip number two is to route all your case default cables first and this simplifies your cable work afterwards so you basically want to separate the USB versus the front IO cables and working them individually so the i/o cables because they're individual little tiny cables it really helps when they're contained first the USB three below it's a super thick cable I hate it and for it to stay flat at the bottom you need to extend it a little bit so that the cable can actually create that nice seamless Bend the audio cable can be channeled right across the bottom of the motherboard so it doesn't interfere with anything else and it can be slightly tucked away underneath the motherboard too and this way everything is cleaned up and ready to go before the big cables come in now one little trick I do to compress all these front IO cables which are individual and very annoying the lazy way is to just compress them with the slightly thicker cable so I normally do it with a 24 pin cable it saves you time and in the end it looks just fine but the slightly less lazy way is to simply just tuck them underneath the slightly thicker cable already before you populate all the other power supply cables and this way the thicker cables are on top so the little ones are kind of you know controlled and everything is already flat before you populate other cables on top of it and I have done exactly that with my fan cables for the AIO so there are three fan cables coming underneath this bracket and I think it's a really good way to just hide them so nothing is overshadowing here and the little thicker cables for the four pins are kind of underneath all the other thick stuff and ya are being secured with the velcros but normally you just have a standard cable tie holding this entire cable mess point number three are power supplies and don't be afraid if you have non modular power supplies because those are just as easy to route in terms of cables as modular units now for modular units a self-explanatory you leave only the needed cables and this way you minimize the entire cable clutter but for non modular units bunch up the cables you know you will not be using so there's less clutter when the key was actually exit and this way it allows that concentration of unused cables to be contained with the power supply so once the power supply is inserted it can look intimidating with so many cables to work on but working them one by one first I route with my 8 pin and I hug the side of the case and exit through the cutout at the top sometimes I leave the cable hugging the case throughout the you know once it's going up but in this case I decide to route it through the center just to see if I can break up the cable clutter and actually make it look better the 24 pin cable is next it's the biggest cable so you exit it through the grommet that's closest to the 24 pin connector you plug that in and then pull back any unused length so the interior is cleaner of course the priority for us is the interior and on majority of cases you have this bottom lip beside the power supply which usually gives you like at least one or two fingers of clearance so you can stuff anything unused in that cavity and the GPU cable I don't mind that we have no opening in the bottom so sometimes you can route it from the power supply shroud but it means that the cables kind of sticking out from the GPU like this sometimes looks good but I actually preferred this whole side exit and you just kind of have to make sure to tighten it in the back so the cable doesn't droop and doesn't reveal too much of it on the interior because priority is the cleanliness on the interior and you can stash away and hide things behind the case so something something like this is what I would set along and now to tie the whole thing together we need to secure those cables so majority of cases arrive with at least a few zip ties and these are awesome for larger cables but you can also use standard metal strings to hold the smaller cables and they're also reusable so that's a benefit but of course they don't look as good as it's a time if your case has velcro straps that's even better because they are reusable and I secure cables based on how they're routed and if I have any zip tie points around so my 24 pin cable is kind of this anchor behind the motherboard so I secure and route many other cables underneath it so they're held in place by the 24 pin cable and then route the SATA power underneath it and because it's flat I just have to find the flat area around the case so it's not going to be on an angle that will prevent the side panel from closing and also the SATA data cable is very thin so you can easily route that underneath any of the cables for it to be kind of secured evenly in that entire mess of or not mess but the entire flock of cables now when using zip ties sometimes you want to leave a little bit of area in case you want to pass maybe something else through it before actually fully securing it to the chassis and so my entire approach is kind of having this big supporting 24 pin cable that holds everything in place because I secure the 24 pin cable at the bottom and at least at one point at the top before it exits on to the interior but of course you can take some more time and route each cable individually and seeing like if you place them beside each other on how they fit within how much space you have on enclosure but majority of cases follow the structure that I've been using on this new course there are 500 D so it will apply to basically any other modern case - and one of the reasons why power supply shrouds are so popular is because they do have the job for you look at this they cover up the entire cable exit from the power supply and all you have to worry about is the re-entry of cables into the interior so what happens if your power supply child is a bit more exposed or you don't have one at all so check it out the back I've used the velcro strap that arrived with the power supply and I collected all the cables so that hole exit doesn't look you know as cluttered and so then I can do my standard cable work around the back here but the most important thing here because that's the part that will be also visible is to make sure that that stuff is under control - also don't forget about the rubber grommets because you can see they're multi-layered part allowing you to pass certain cables and so don't forget to kind of cover up the little rubber pieces on where the cable exits so that we don't see what's behind the cable sometimes you can reveal a little bit too much so just make sure that all the you know all the rubber flaps are flat with the cable also most of the time the power supply has a little gap above it which is perfect for routing USB cables from my all-in-one cooler that are out from the top or if you have an audio cable that you want to pass to let's say a cutout that's near this side of the case you can use that little area to pass it so it doesn't have to occupy anything over there now with examples like these where we have so many additional IO cables because this case has a fan controller that needs power that needs motherboard connector so all these additional wires that can be really frustrating to like you know initially handle especially even if you insert the power supply beforehand so one thing to do is you can go step by step by isolating make sure that your routing just the i/o cables first then your fan controller then your audio and stuff of that and if you really get frustrated getting sleeving to kind of put it all into one and hide it will definitely simplify that entire queue of cables and make it look a lot more appealing and while cases are getting bigger and we have more area to work with more case manufacturers need to do what NZXT is doing in terms of creating these plastic channel guides so you can seamlessly you know route your cables this way and nothing is kind of like in the center everything has its own dedicated channel and I think that's brilliant and so that's my approach to cable management I know it's kind of you know simplified because I don't spend too much time on it but I find that having that anchor 24 pin cable holding all the cables underneath it means that if I have to swap out any hard or replace the power supply it's the actual replacement process is simplified because only one cable has to be kind of you know unsecured and you take everything out now you may be thinking that doing cable management and any modern enclosure right now is simple and yes you're right so I bought a 40 dollar gaming case which has terrible cable management and we'll go step-by-step on how to deal with some challenging spaces instead with both modular and non modular power supplies for system so stay tuned for that but I am no cable management guru so let me know how you do care management in the comments below share your tips with the community thanks much for watching I'm Dmitry and will cable management you in the next review totally did not mean for that to rhyme alright see you later