My cable management is so bad I can’t close my case but I don’t care
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I feel so seen.
I don’t see a problem here.
PS: My opinion on PC innards was formed during the reign of IDE cables.
I always started out “Imma hide all these cables and make the insides perfect!”
By the time I’d run all the power, fan, IDE, front case, USB, etc. I was like fuckit, I just want to get this thing running. Half-assed jammed the cables out of the way or behind the case ITX backing. Looks like shit, put the case side back on, off I go.
Lots easier now with far fewer cables to be run, cases offer more space behind the mobo for hiding cables and not the 3/4” of space they used to offer.
How is the Intel arc treating you op? Is it actually good for general purpose nowadays, or still a lot in beta phase?
Sorry I didn’t check my inbox for 4 months but it’s been treating me really well ish… The problem right now is the drivers on Linux aren’t caught up so for some games like marvel rivals I have to use Windows to play even though marvel rivals works on Linux with any other card lol. I’m hopeful but the more I look into it makes me a little more scared because it seems they have two separate drivers and I’m not sure if they’re updating the drivers for the a series anymore which they should it’s not an old card it’s just that they moved to a new driver a whole new code base but we’ll see
Well, the important thing is that the cables aren’t impeding the flow of air around the parts that get hot. It doesn’t look like they are, so I don’t see a problem.
If no side window, who cares, let it be messy! Call it your sleeper office PC.
Honestly I can’t. Looks like those from the store.
Feels
I love it
How’s the Intel GPU treating ya? Looks awesome!
Pretty good so far it does get a little hot but never thermal throttles. Drivers for it on Linux are kind of poop right now. And I’m not sure if they forgot about it because they made a whole new driver and a whole new code base for their new b series cards so some games like marvel rivals still won’t launch with the a series
I can tell this isn’t a prebuilt because your PSU isn’t a sus nondescript metal box.
Yeah, though as someone who has a thermaltake psu - depending on the model and sku, it might as well be.
Also, the non-descript psus from SIs that also do servers tend to be pretty solid, from experience.
A case with actual drive bays and ribbon cables everywhere, it if wasn’t for that AMD Wraith cooler I’d think I was looking at a machine from 20 years ago.
And absolutely no way to route cables in the back.
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.
What about a worse power bill?
The PSU doesn’t use more power just because it has a higher maximum capacity. Plus, a PSU is most efficient at partial loads (usually around 60-70%)
TIL
To my knowledge, PSUs are rated up to a declared power output but unless you have hardware that requires all of its power, the PSU doesn’t put out the full charge.
If it works, good. That is what matters. Just remember to clean it every once in a while. I’ve seen fully dust and lint clogged heatsinks before.
How did you get access to my pc???
Just shove the excess cabling into the 5.25" Bay area so you can shut the case
Full of my hard drive and SSD :/
I think that’s the 3.5" Bay you’re referring to. The 2 cd/dvd drive bays at the top should be big enough to cram the wires in
CD drive still in there just not plugged in. But good idea I can just yank it out
I haven’t looked in years, but you used to be able to get covers or dust filters that popped into 5.25 bays for a few bucks.
Also, those cables are flat, so you might be able to fold them in half and put them under the cd drive, but above the storage drives
