My cable management is so bad I can't close my case but I don't care
Just shove the excess cabling into the 5.25" Bay area so you can shut the case
this post was submitted on 25 Nov 2024
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I can tell this isn't a prebuilt because your PSU isn't a sus nondescript metal box.
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Why did you put an 850W power supply in that? You could probably put a 650W that's much nicer for the same price.
It was on sale and I thought "eh what the hell I'll upgrade sometime down the road"
Yeah, as long as you're pulling more than like 20% of the rated power then having a slightly overspec power supply is only going to bring you good things.
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I love PC parts branded "sparkle". I had a Sparkle power supply and I just hoped I would never see a magic blue sparkle.
How is the Intel arc treating you op? Is it actually good for general purpose nowadays, or still a lot in beta phase?
Unpopular opinion, but I just get a solid side panel and do minimal to no cable management. I don't care about rgb or if the insides look pretty.
Steer clear of the fans and it's all good.
It'll work, but in a few years those cables will be full of dust.
I had the opposite problem building mine, if I tried to cable manage* I couldn't close the case because there was too much slack
*hiding all the cables in the back panel
Eeeewww. You know there's a panel on the other side to hide all that, right?
If this is a proprietary case (such as those from Dell, HP, etc), which it looks like this is, then it probably doesn't.
My suggestion is to get even a bargain bin $50 case and switch to that quickly. Far less limiting and probably has cable management components all over.
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I haven't seen a case since like 2014 that didn't have the cable management on the other side but like like OPs case doesn't. Hard to tell from here
It don't. I've had this case for awhile, got it out the dump of an office building and just kept upgrading it.