yaggaz
macktkau
PCPP link to build.
How do you all get them to look so clean and orderly and looking like theres hardly any cables lol, I just have no skill for uncluttering.
You should see the old build in that PCPP link. It was awful so I'm hardly an expert lol.
The main things I did to get a nice clean look were:
- Buy a large case with a PSU shroud (Meshify S2) with good cable management holes. All the slack of the power cables is stuffed into the power supply shroud.
- Went M.2 only. My motherboard has three m.2 slots. I filled two of them with NVME drives when I bought the board & 9900k in Oct 2018. With this build I decided to replace an 1tb 2.5" 840 from years ago with a 2tb m.2 WD Blue Sata drive.
- I bought custom cables. From cablemods, I decided to replace the dual daisychained 6+2 from the PSU with three 8 pin single cables. I also needed one molex power (for the sound card) and one Sata power (for the motherboard fan hub) so I also did a custom cable with only the single power connector so that they wouldn't take up much room.
- I used Noctua 4 pin extensions for all the case fans, and an ARGB splitter/extension for the EK aio. This let me connect everything up behind the rear panel.
I could get this build even cleaner, I should have got some cable combs for the 8 pins, and I didn't realise how awful the AX 850's 4+4 pin cables are. They are really stiff and have a gigantic amount of heatshrink (you can see it in the top right corner) which meant I couldn't use the cable hole directly above the three 4 pin ATX connectors. The one last thing was that the USB-C header on the motherboard isn't right angled like a sata cable is, so that black cable above the sound card you can see juts out. Supposedly you can get a right angle cable from Asrock.