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today's videos about cable management's in a computer room I have two computers I have a few outlets to deal with and I'm also got sit-stand desks to work with to have an assortment of products behind me I'm gonna go over those and then I'll talk about the pros and cons of each one after I've cable manage my computer room so here in the dining room table I have an assertive stuff I'm going to be using today the stuff on the right I'm going to talk about less we got some plugs over here and that kind of thing stuff on the left is the actual cable management gear and I've been sort of assembling this actually over the past years so I've been planning this project for quite some time so for comparison first off the classic IKEA Signum this has been around for quite some time it's an expensive available at IKEA it's an under desk rack that you can just pile your cables in I have a few of those available I also have this s/t simple cord cable concealer this is popular because it gives a very clean sort of finished look if you want to run it along your baseboards or something like that it's also modular has a couple connective pieces and you can cut it to size whether you want to go 90-degree in corners or angle stuff up a wall to get to an outlet or something like that yes this one here does not have good packaging at all several of these were just bought directly from Amazon so all they have is a little sticker on them this is the wire tamer cable management tray 2-pack from it Jojo we have this cable management sleeve so it's got like a zipper on one side and it's kind of long gather the cables up together perfect for home or office use I have kind of a classic set of adhesive based little cable clips retention clips so these can kind of cinch up and then they can release and this right here which is a hundred pack of these little plastic brackets you just screw them on and then it gives you some brackets to connect a zip tie up to this 3m Scotch indoor mounting thing which I honestly have no idea what it is it's been so long since I ordered it and then I've got some more traditional just nail based cable management two pieces here so just an a little ball with a little hook on it that holds the cable down and lastly for direct cable management gear I have this interesting piece which is also it's the Jade Channel cable Raceway 48 inch so long adhesive on the back you attach it to a wall or it gets the underside of a desk and then you can just sort of tuck cables in it that way finally some other game I'm using today I've got some little half-inch screws for drilling into a desk without drilling through the desk I've got this which is just an adhesive headphone holder also by Johto I've got my impact drill and drill and driver for drilling holes but I'll probably just use this for drilling in because I don't want to over drill and the impact driver is really good at doing that and then lastly we got a couple power strips and these are for under mounting on the desk to provide power plugs in a more convenient location as well as some USB charging ports and I've got a couple versions of that this kind of smaller one with two plugs and two ports and then this longer one by Trond and both of these I purchased specifically because they have the mounting holes on either side so you can mount them with screws not just as heat kadhi civ we stopped by Ace Hardware to supplements more cable management stuff mainly I wanted these little slim plugs the flat ones that plug in and then come off at an angle because I think they just look a lot nicer to keep things cleaner and also prevent like your dog from bumping up against the plug that's sticking out and possibly breaking the wall plate for it we do need to replace a wall plate because of that so I got three of these they're all rated for somewhat different usage I'm hoping to implement them in different places I got a black one I got this sort of strange coloured one here and I got a white one also we've got some flex to me so this I'm hopefully going to be using behind the computers just to sort of tidy up the cables coming off the back I only got one small pack of this for now but I'll see how it looks and how it works and might add more of that in the future - and now Hiro is going to take us on a tour of the computer room it's oh here it is you guys probably remember there's Riptide my workstation is right here my wife's workstation is right here Joe has added this c-stand light just so we can have some more light in the room for this video in particular most of the time it's actually fairly dark in here though because I just have a China ball in the corner and then one more light right here but here's what we got to worry about when it comes to cable management first off switch on the wall has been taped in the on position for quite some time it's because I had a couple outlets in this room that weren't working so everything was running off of the switch controlled outlet which is under this desk I need to wire that outlet over to the China ball so that we can use the switch again turn that light on and off and I've got one outlet down here and then one more outlet over here in the guitar corner and those is what needs to power everything else in the room we did recently move these bookshelves in here which is pretty nice but my internet is coming through the ceiling right there and down here and then there is a switch so that is where all the internet in the room comes in so need to wire the internet from that direction need to wire power from here and here to power this workstation and this workstation need to clean my wife's desk off of course because it's super dusty ok I can't believe she lives that way and then of course we've got my custom-made stand here for our computers and just want to kind of reconfigure that a little bit better so that the cable management looks nice and I'm hopefully going to tuck as much stuff down under there as possible because that was kind of the goal when we built this so I think that pretty much explains the goals for this video let's get to work yay excellent so here is how I think I want to attack this I'm gonna treat each desktop here is sort of an individual unit and try to get stuff wired up whether it's power 4 speakers or a monitor or the desks themselves also have power try to wire all that over to a single side so I can have a single cable going down to that to plug in to wherever that's gonna plug in this down there is now plugged in to the lamp that's up there so I can use the power switch to turn that on and off again so before anything else I want to run one of the cable concealers along here for that cable and also if you haven't already been able to tell our walls haven't seen texturing on them that is not our choice that was the previous owners there's not a whole lot we can do about it right now without some major work so I just have to deal with it that means that I can't use these long adhesive strips that come with the cable concealer to attach it to the wall because it's not going to stick with all that so instead of the adhesive I'm gonna be using the included screws to mount these to the wall it was just laying up a shot oh here that's so convenient just that's where you want to lie down yep he's comfortable check it out guys the room is pretty much cable managed I say pretty much because of course a project like this is never gonna be completely finished but the main thing that I'm missing is some longer DisplayPort cables I need to go from here over to this computer and I think we could have a better situation going from this done to this computer as well I'm also looking at this angle and I could see cables there but you're gonna have to ignore those for the time being it's alright don't worry let's move on so we tried to do a little before and after shot so you guys could sort of get an idea of what's been done and what has changed I am feeling really really good about everything just because there's so much fewer cables down here and down here already just trying to point out the things that I'm not completely happy with right now aside from this thing right there that's partially there because my wife needs to be able to switch to do the KVM here between her laptop and the desktop but that could be fixed up a little bit more also down here we have a single plug sticking out and that is for the plugs coming over for the lights I was able to connect up both lights to the switch so that's kinda nice but there's a plug that just had to stick out there just a little bit it's not a huge deal and in fact I could plug another light into that if I really wanted to I guess what I'm happy with is everything else and I wanted to take some time now to go over the cable management products that I used and sort of give you my feedback the pros and the cons for each one so first off we have the st simple cord cable concealer which I pretty much just used for run right along the bottom of this wall and part of that was because continuing that run behind this wouldn't have done us a whole lot of good send us it's gonna be blocked anyway and also moving all this stuff was gonna be a challenge so we left it as is I'm happy with the little run that we got out of it going there it's gonna keep its you know up against the wall and I like how clean it looks with sort of the angled flat plug zone the wall too and now we have an extra plug there that we can actually plug stuff into and use that's convenient on the plus side this does include adhesive strips so you can connect it directly to the wall although I tried to avoid using adhesive as much as possible in this project and I really can't use adhesive on my wall because of all the texturing which really sucks but we have to deal with it so I ended up using the include screws and they do include screws as well as wall anchors so that's nice it gets a star for that and it has probably the cleanest finish of any of the products that I've used today it is a little cumbersome to attach the outer piece here with cables running through it and I can imagine with multiple cables that would be even more challenging and also getting the joints to line up correctly was a little bit difficult but overall I think it's a good product you just got a bear in mind it's not the easiest to work with also some of the joints were a little hard to get attached and it does have to be cut to length where you want to which maybe is a pro or oricon for you depending on how custom you want to do stuff let's overall I think it's a good product you just got to bear in mind some of those caveats the IKEA Signum is next we use this in a couple places at the back of both my desk and my wife's desk so these are an old standby they've been around for a while the pros are that they do include screws and mounting hardware and it will hold a lot of cables or power bricks so if you have power bricks for laptops or monitors you can just sort of tuck them in there and forget about it you also have a lot of room to work with so you don't necessarily need to have all of your cables like completely wrapped up perfectly however it does also hang down a bit from the back so depending on whether or not you want a super clean finish or not these may or may not work for you I like them because they're flexible they're inexpensive they're easy to put multiple ones on the same desk but if you're looking for the cleanest possible thing it's probably not going to be it next up are these wire tamer cable management trays I did end up using one of these it's tucked up back there at the back right of my desk from this angle you can actually see all the cables that are in it's kind of which isn't the best look but if you're looking at it from the right it actually does give you know a relatively clean finish just because it's got a simple black finish it is a little on the flimsy side and it's only got two screw points to hold it down one on either side they're kind of angled on the side so you can still get a screwdriver up there to mount that so that's relatively well designed I think this was a decent product and depending on where you're placing it of course just wish it was a little sturdier next are these Johto cable management sleeves and these are like a really simple design it's just neoprene and a zipper and some hemming honestly which is cool because you know you can actually expand them so you can zip up multiple ones of these together so if you have a lot of cables to tap together you could do that however I just found no used for them here and I think that was mainly because I ended up using the wire loom for a run that I had to do that was kind of like that these could maybe be used situationally if you really needed to keep dust off of cables or if you had a lot of them to wrap up all at once but I don't think they look the cleanest when it's actually wrapped so that's why I didn't end up using them down here I put the J Channel Raceway the 48 inch Raceway which I like however I did drill it to the wall so I used my own screws to do that it does not come with screws it just comes with one single long adhesive strip which might work if you are actually attaching it to a flat wall but I don't like relying on adhesive long term for anything that might have weight going on it which is why I drilled it in with a drill bin it's super sturdy it's really easy to just tuck the cables in there and you can pull them out if you need to as well I was even able to have this ugly thing popping out like that which like I said is ugly but I was still able to do so it's at least functional it's got a relatively clean look and you could cut it to length as well if you wanted to so I think that's a decent product - I think it was only maybe ten or eleven dollars this gray plastic cable loom actually picked up ace hardware so I didn't include it in the beginning of the video but I think this is a fantastic product as well just don't buy it at Ace Hardware we spent too much money for a relatively small amount of it you get this online really cheap so I'll try to find some there and point it out it's just really convenient because if you have a group of cables and you need to run it across somewhere that's gonna be visible it wraps them up it looks much cleaner and because it's split down the entire way you can unwrap it and remove or add cables if you need to that's how I was able to take this lamp right here run it down there and plug it into the mid plug that's coming from that and now I can use our light switch to turn both lights on and off Wow amazing technology we had these adhesive cable clips as well I only ended up using them back here on the back of my wife's desk but then I rerouted the wiring so nothing's actually connected to it right now these are decent products again since adhesive is what holds them on I wouldn't rely on them if you're gonna be mounting them to the bottom of a desk for instance because any time you have adhesive that has constant weight on it it's going to give way eventually especially as the summer continues to heat up so these are decent I like that you can pop a little screwdriver in there to unlatch them or close them just use them situationally and don't use them for something that's going to be hanging from bottom of a desk and finally here is my winner for today that is these little black plastic 9 millimeter zip tie amounts which don't really have much of a brand name going on but I will link to them down in the video description so you guys can check them out they are only plastic and the negatives is that they don't come with any mounting hardware so you need to get your own screws these are the screws I was using incase you are interesting in they are not exactly the right type of screws but they actually fit perfectly and for just drilling into wood they did just fine you're also going to need to bring your own zip tie or twist tie or velcro strap in order to feed through there to strap down whatever you want to strap down but if you're willing to deal with that you get a bunch of them there's over a hundred in here and I use like maybe a tenth of that and all I had to do was pair each one up with a screw and then I was basically able to do a bunch of custom wiring wherever I wanted so like I've got one there and another one there and another one under here and then I put another one back there and that's allowing me to just really securely route all the cables down here get them really close up to the desk and just customize and put them wherever I want to oh did I mention I also installed my my headphone stand right there also from Giotto that one's also great but again screwed it in because I do not trust the adhesive so these are my winners as far as the most useful and my favorites of the cable management gear that I have been presenting to you guys today so again I'll link that down in the description but honestly having a range of supplies was really helpful for today because anytime I needed to do anything specific I was just like oh let me try this instead but guys that is gonna wrap it up for this massive cable management video I'm really happy with how everything turned out and hopefully I gave you guys a little bit of feedback on the various cable management products that I used today so if you're looking to do something similar you can choose the product that suits your needs the best again links are down in the description for everything thank you so much for watching hit the thumbs up button on your way out and we'll see you guys next time