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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 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 cooling 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 ah your cooling is going to be terrible because 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 mainstream with their new core i7 6700 K and Core i5 6600 K processors check out the link in the video description to learn more ok so test one is going to be 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 in a t4 and pretending it's a 212 Evo thank you at Matt Grimes 5:00 on Twitter for sending this to me by the way he mailed it to me directly because he's tired of me complaining about not having one so there's one fan on there there's one 140 millimeter fan in the front there's a 140 millimeter fan in the back and there's two 120 millimeter fans in the top so this will be our base benchmark for how this computer is able to perform with pretty good cable management will 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 per mark on the GPU and recording temperatures of the GPU using msi afterburner and then I'm doing a system stability test with I 264 in order to push the CPU so this should feed everything up and get us to a relatively hopefully high number 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 I will 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 degrees and our GPU is at about 82 degrees 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 cable 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 8-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 affect 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 per mark for the GPU stress test and then starting i-264 for the CPU another 10 minutes will 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 degrees on the CPU still 82 degrees on the GPU we're gonna have to make this cable management a lot worse that's going to be the next step I'm gonna add like maybe most of this and we'll see what happens side panels on fur mark is set up I 264 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 the 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 it up here then it probably matters because if you're completely blocking off all of the 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 but who knows we'll see you soon ten minute test okay so no change at all CPUs at fifty graphics cards at 82 so yeah seems like if you have a mid tower you're probably fine in terms of cable management so we're just gonna some fun I'm going to put a Snoopy in there at which t-shirt a roll of tape and iron and a Santa hat and maybe that'll do something God we're going to put all this stuff look 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 will affect your airflow system stability oh I forgot the tape it's okay while the tests are running I'm going to add the last part and I forgot to add which was the roll of tape I'm sure Linus is totally okay with all the things I'm doing right now nice I don't know where I can put it that's probably fun that's okay that's probably okay now we're rocking roll a tape Snoopy iron santahat twitch t-shirt let's do this tests are currently running let's see how they're going the CPU is currently at 50 degrees 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 I guess we're going to leave it for 10 minutes and then we'll be back 50 degrees on the CPU 82 degrees on the GPU I put a shirt a Santa hat a Snoopy and iron and a giant roll of tape along with every single cable that came with a 1200 I into a case and it didn't affect anything next up is boxes I'm gonna 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 air flow pathways I want some numbers to go up okay so we use the box for the CPU cooler and we use boxes for a bunch of water coolers there's one under here our 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 we've done all of this I'm going to put the case panel but wait hold up hold up hold up you 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 don't even stop them because nothing's changed this whole freaking time so we're currently running fur mark and currently running itis sixty-four I'm going to come over here and see if there's been any immediate changes the GPU has not increased in temperature to bite despite having a shirt shoved into it and a box under it but it looks like we have a slight increase in CPU temperatures oh good I'll check back in ten minutes we did it by adding four boxes for water blocks one box for a 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 degrees and we've gotten the GPU to 86 degrees done so yes in the end it took four boxes for water blocks it took one box for a CPU 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 it's 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 no 202 or like an RV zero one Silverstone but yeah it's probably fine for keel measurements bad but like I don't know how to word this because don't just use that as an excuse to have bad fuel management we don't want ugly computers it's not a good idea don't post a build log on the forum go like lol Luke told me it was okay to have terrible cable management because it's not gonna increase my thermals very much just do it properly everything will be a fine a pacer is giving away 5 a pacer a s 330 Panther 240 gigabyte SSDs for a chance to win check out the link in the 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