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[SnaFuBAR]

not really sure how else i could've gone about this

oh god damnit, i think my cables are long enough to go behind the tray and out to the power connections. shit.

FUCK.

[Rook]

well the bottom mounted psu cases does seem to make it a little bit eaiser, one of the reason i opted for antec 300. all your hdd's don't make it easy either.

[Amit]

This is why I loathe buying a new power supply. You gotta rewire everything and then spend like hours after that to make sure it doesn't impede airflow.

[Cortexian]

That's a lot better, only thing I can recommend to make the HDD area less of a mess is to flip them around so the connectors are facing the front of the case. Do you have a gap between your hard drive cage and the back of your case, if you do then you can easily run the cables back there and then connect them to the newly forward facing connectors. That would hide most of your "mess".

And I'd recommend moving your motherboard 4/8pin auxiliary power cable above your HSF. That way it has less distance to travel and you might be able to tuck the excess cord behind the motherboard tray.

This is the auxiliary cable I'm talking about:

[Varmint260]

Not much chance of my tucking cables behind the motherboard tray in this case, I guess...

The drive bays back right up to the side of the tray, so the only access behind it is below the hard drive section. Though, this case doesn't have any access to air from the front, just the holes in the side panel, and most of the cables are badly tucked underneath the DVD drive. My TV Tuner does slightly go over the fan for the GPU, but it idled at 40C before I installed the TV Tuner and it still idles at 40C.

Admittedly, I'm a noob; what's this black thingy I just noticed at the back of my case? Is it optical out for audio?

[Cortexian]

Flip your HDD around, I'm serious people it's an awesome way to hide cables.

Yes that's an optical audio port, most likely an out because not many PC's have optical in. Using light to transfer sound, what an awesome oxymoron.

[Varmint260]

... not many PC's have optical in

That'd be nice, since my computer has analog connectors for 7.1 out, but my PS3 only has analog connectors for stereo out, but it has an optical out. It'd be nice to run an optical from the PS3 to the PC and then use it to run the surround that way. Oh well.

Using light to transfer sound, what an awesome oxymoron.

"Listen! Do you smell something?"

[Rook]

Flip your HDD around, I'm serious people it's an awesome way to hide cables.

never thought of that, now just flip the dvd around

[CrAsHOvErRide]

That'd be nice, since my computer has analog connectors for 7.1 out, but my PS3 only has analog connectors for stereo out, but it has an optical out. It'd be nice to run an optical from the PS3 to the PC and then use it to run the surround that way. Oh well.

Nope...unless your sound card is designed to do that directly you are going to have latency. You would not want to play a game where the sound is one second behind

[SnaFuBAR]

That's a lot better, only thing I can recommend to make the HDD area less of a mess is to flip them around so the connectors are facing the front of the case.

And I'd recommend moving your motherboard 4/8pin auxiliary power cable above your HSF. That way it has less distance to travel and you might be able to tuck the excess cord behind the motherboard tray.

I should be able to do that, considering the primary and secondary drives are on ide1, but ide2 has the tertiary drive and the dvd drive, so i won't be able to flip that one around, but i guess it's ok, being a 36 inch cable i can tuck it easily and hide most of it. Quaternary hdd, I don't know about, considering the length of my sata cable, and depending on whether or not the sata power is sharing any connection with anything else >>.