claptonman
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Can't see it in the most recent pics here, Linkin, but what kind of fans do you have blowing out the top? The Twin Frozen recirculates the air back in the case, so having good fans to get that hot air out helps a lot.
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CrazyHV8000
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That's what was going recommended to RMA. XFX look cool but too bad they don't make new Geforce XFX anymore except for low end video card GT 520
Saying that,I cant remember seeing any stickers over any screws on my 6950 today when i had my rig apart,If its true thats quite good of MSI.
The Twin Frozr 3 cooler on mine though is great,Currently idle at 33c.
and under load in BF3 usually around 62-65c...not seen it go over that yet.
I would be quite worried aswell if my card reached what yours is Linkin.
Got a new power supply today, replaced my crappy generic CIT 650W neon PSU with an OCZ ZS 650W. It's a good PSU for like less than £60 and the wires are all meshed which is nice to see. I did some cable management on it and I think this is the best the cable management in my machine will probably ever get.
I think that's a good as it's going to get. All the cables are passed behind the motherboard tray as we can see in the photo below.
What do you think? I think considering my PC looked like this a year ago I think it's pretty good!
I think that's a good as it's going to get. All the cables are passed behind the motherboard tray as we can see in the photo below.
What do you think? I think considering my PC looked like this a year ago I think it's pretty good!
How could I improve? Maybe tidy up those SATA cables??
No, most of it is the wires up by the CPU fan. First take the 2 fan wires and run them up along the top of the motherboard and then down. Tuck the wires in the top right corner of the motherboard, then do the same thing with the CPU power cable. Tucking that CPU cable in slightly under the top right corner of the motherboard will hold the 2 fan wires in then too.
Then down below, no reason to have the PCIe power cable zip tied to the front with all that wire hanging around. Just take it straight from the card through the cable management hole and zip tie it in the back to hold it.
Hopefully this will help-
Then down below, no reason to have the PCIe power cable zip tied to the front with all that wire hanging around. Just take it straight from the card through the cable management hole and zip tie it in the back to hold it.
Hopefully this will help-
Yes.
It appears like the cpu cable is long enough to do that to me, give it a whirl.
Yeah sorry my bad it should be fine if I re-route it. What I'll do is re-route most of my cables directly behind the motherboard-tray and zip-tie them to the back of the tray, then re-route the 24-pin connector to where most of the cables are now, and then that way I should be able to hide those fan cables. There are some other cables too such as the power switch cable and all the little cables which connect to the motherboard which I'd like to hide too. I'm off school next week (half-term break!), so I can do it then.87dtna said:
Sounds good. Like I said, just the minor tweaking now to just punch it up a little in the cleanliness department. It should turn out well, your case is definitely decent for cable management. The only one I know of better is the CM 690 II advanced, that is the BEST.
I've shown this many times before but it just begs to be shown a lot
One of my favorite builds
I've shown this many times before but it just begs to be shown a lot
One of my favorite builds
I may also do something about those SATA cables which have been bunched up. My motherboard isn't great and doesn't have the SATA connections laying towards the hard disks, instead they're underneath the graphics card (the joys of mATX boards!) so I may need to find some longer SATA cables.
Today just before I set off to go to school I started hiding those fan cables behind the motherboard, here's a picture.87dtna said:
As you can see, for the time being the CPU is simply cable-tied to the top of the case to prevent it from getting in the way. Here's how my rig looks now.
So as we can see I still need to do something about the PCI Express power cables. I'll sort this all out at the weekend when I've got some time. Busy at the moment!
Yep that's another problem that needs sorting out, what really is the best way to get rid off the dust bunnies? I don't have any compressed air on me at the moment.
Compressed air is really the only good way.
It's definitely an improvement, looks a lot better already IMO. Totally cleaned up the top half except on the CPU cooler....why did you unwrap it? The wires go around the CPU cooler and snap in, you can turn the CPU cooler and install it wherever works best. No need to have it unwrapped and then tied together.
So once you get your compressed air, take that CPU cooler off and blow it out (looks mega dusty) and then reinstall with the wire wrapped around for a cleaner look.
See this one here I did, the wire wraps all the way around the cooler so you have no extra bunched up-
Now on the bottom half, I noticed you have an extra PCIe cable there that you aren't even using since the gts450 only uses one. Get that outta there and stuff it in the back! lol. And then like I said take the one being used now and just run it from the card directly to the cable management hole and wrap the excess behind there. The PCIe cables are really whats crapping up your bottom half the most, just that will also be huge improvement.
So, like this-
It's definitely an improvement, looks a lot better already IMO. Totally cleaned up the top half except on the CPU cooler....why did you unwrap it? The wires go around the CPU cooler and snap in, you can turn the CPU cooler and install it wherever works best. No need to have it unwrapped and then tied together.
So once you get your compressed air, take that CPU cooler off and blow it out (looks mega dusty) and then reinstall with the wire wrapped around for a cleaner look.
See this one here I did, the wire wraps all the way around the cooler so you have no extra bunched up-
Now on the bottom half, I noticed you have an extra PCIe cable there that you aren't even using since the gts450 only uses one. Get that outta there and stuff it in the back! lol. And then like I said take the one being used now and just run it from the card directly to the cable management hole and wrap the excess behind there. The PCIe cables are really whats crapping up your bottom half the most, just that will also be huge improvement.
So, like this-
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I purchased my CPU, my motherboard and RAM (well half of my RAM) as a bundle and I think my CPU cooler came like that. Didn't realise you could put the cable around the cooler itself *knocks head on the table*.87dtna said:
Yep it is dusty. I've not cleaned it out in over a year. I'll do it at the weekend and I'll look to find some way of dusting my CPU cooler off a bit, as well as the fans.87dtna said:
I will hide that extra 6+2 PCI Express cable and re-route my cable tomorrow evening or at the weekend. Going out tonight so I can't do it tonight but I will do it ASAP. Also, those wires hanging down by the PSU, I reckon I can sort those out too as well as that black E-SATA cable hanging around by my hard disk. I don't use E-SATA (not enough SATA ports on my motherboard) so I'll hide that cable too.87dtna said:
Thanks for the advice and diagrams btw, much appreciated.
Oh OK, no biggie but now you know. Just don't pull the wires tight when wrapping it around because they will catch the fan if they are pulled too tight.
You're definitely heading in the right direction, it should clean up quite well. After that is all done, the only thing I would really nit pick about is the case wiring. The wires for the power/reset buttons and LED wires. They are kind all going every direction, if you could simply straighten them out and put them all together, it would finish it off nicely. Like I said, thats kinda down the list, those PCIe cables and CPU fan wires are up next for sure which should make another massive improvement.
You're definitely heading in the right direction, it should clean up quite well. After that is all done, the only thing I would really nit pick about is the case wiring. The wires for the power/reset buttons and LED wires. They are kind all going every direction, if you could simply straighten them out and put them all together, it would finish it off nicely. Like I said, thats kinda down the list, those PCIe cables and CPU fan wires are up next for sure which should make another massive improvement.
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