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what is up everyone Greg here behind the camera for a first-person perspective if you will about cable management for a PC this is something that I do regard as a very important step in the PC building process but something that I will admit I did not originally regard as a very important step when I first started building pcs it was just about you know making the front look good not the back no one sees the back right but it's it's more than just an aesthetic thing and even if you don't have a tempered glass front and back panel and even then you might have it pressed against a wall so no one see it anyway it's just peace of mind it's it's a testament to how experienced you are at PC building even if it's your first PC ever it's still important to cable managed properly it just makes the entire building experience move by much more fluidly and in in the back of your mind you know that you built a really awesome PC that that looks good on both sides not just on one side so if you ever take it apart or show anybody what you've done show them how to build a PC you don't want to pull the back panel off and just have a rat's and that's kind of fall out of the case so we're going to talk about my personal take on cable management what I do when I build a PC nowadays and what I think will be best for a case like this this is the s340 elite from NZXT it's it's already predisposed to be an excellent cable management case I'll show you that here shortly if you have a really crappy case it's just not meant for cable management at all I'll discuss that I don't recommend buying a case like that for a mid Tower or full-size Tower but that's the tour will start before I start the actual video I wanted to introduce a game plan these are the steps that I go through when I personally build pcs and regard cable management as a top priority what you want to do is install everything except for your power supply first it sounds weird it's probably unworthy docks but it makes sense in the long run if you think about how we want to manage our cable so we want our smaller cables underneath a larger cables that way we can keep these smaller ones in check they're not being you know pulled and stretched and stuff into places they shouldn't be creating rat's nest things like that we want to manage the smaller cables first because they are more difficult to manage and then overlap the large ones which are typically found in the power supply okay so this is the back of the s3 for you leet you can see we have our front IO cables already kind of managed through the included cable clips and then we have some other cables for the hue Plus which is installed we have two 140 millimeter hue plus fans AER fans they column and then one 120 in the back I did connect those already these don't connect to the motherboard so it's not going to hurt have those already plugged in but we will be cable managing all of this so it's just kind of all hanging here now but hopefully by the end of this video we'll have an excellent case that we can put the back panel on very simply without any hassle without any force extra force we don't know how difficult it is to put on a back panel in a case it doesn't have excellent cable management your front i/o connectors power switch power LED and hard drive LED whatever else you have there all of that you want to get out of the way first these cables are just a pain to try to route around larger PSU cables that's why I suggest running these in first all right now we have HD audio the front i/o connectors the USB 2.0 port for the hue plus as well as the USB 2.0 header for the front panel all installed on the bottom that's good stuff now we're going to pull those cables back to the back of the case we've all that slack there and we know how much cable we have to work with ok the last two things we want to install are the two largest cables that don't require a power supply that is the SATA cable running from our solid-state drive and the USB 3.0 kit remember the largest cables go last because we can use these to kind of press down on the smaller cables and keep those in check ok at this point I suggest using a few tie straps the thinner the better I don't believe that the little cable clips included with the case are going to be enough we're going to use some of these little indentions here and that's what the tie straps are for so go ahead and grab about six or seven of those and we're going to start routing these cables as best we can and make it look as pretty as possible you so this is what I have so far I took out the cable management clips here and here they just I didn't like the channels in there and these cables were too thick for that so I use tie straps kind of theme this whole video the more tie straps you use the better you might not agree with this particular I don't know root cable root if you will and you may have just chosen to go down this way or something like that but as long as you have your cables managed properly you have a lot of space for your power supply once you do insert that and you can kind of work around all these smaller cables easily then you've done a great job with your cable management one other thing I do want to mention you want to make sure that your cables aren't bunched up too much if they are then you won't be able to slide your back panel on so do keep that in mind you don't want to throw a bunch these into a larger rat's nest and still tie them up you want to keep these spread out enough to where you can slide your back panel on with ease now in this case you there really isn't much we can do about cable storage these are just going to have to be tucked away somewhere that's where a basement does come in handy if you don't have a basement I recommend trying to cram as much of it behind the power supply that way you can't see it from the front of the case and then if you have something like a hard drive tray maybe stowing cables underneath your hard drive you don't have a hard drive then you have even more space to work with but that's all we can do at this point because we do have so many extra cables and just cables that we're using in general even with a semi modular power supply we're just gonna have a lot of excess so that's where tucking is going to be your friend tucking the cables away in the places that you can't see them from the front of the case that's pretty much the goal at this point we made everything else look pretty but you know there's nothing else we can really do about these power cables at this point okay let's go ahead plug these cables in and then take care of the slack and here we have it this is the finished product if I power the PC on right now it should boot up no problem Asuma didn't forget to plug in anything this is the product of having both a semi modular / modular power supply and a case that I will admit is excellent when it comes to cable management so I was kind of really predisposed to do a decent job given that I was actually trying but if you follow the steps in this video you know route your cables the best you can use many tie straps as you need even some you know a little sandwich tab tie straps would even on a column but as long as you have those your disposal and you're not you know packed with cables that you don't need from not much of the power supply you should be good to go I mean this is really going to be up to you how much effort you put into your cable management will determine how great it looks back here I would be completely fine with having a tempered glass right panel given that the cable management looks this way so let me know in the comments what you think about my job given what I was you know what I had my disposal if you have any questions concerns be sure to leave those in the comments as well this video a thumbs up you thought it was cool or helpful give it a dislike if whatever you hate life or you thought I did a terrible job and subscribe for more 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