Show off your rig!

**Pablo 54** · 11-10-2012, 12:36 PM

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I am superstitious when it comes to cabling (not that I am any good at it). I don’t tie things off etc. until the build runs for several weeks. I am calling him Festus.

**PP Mguire** · 11-10-2012, 04:38 PM

Takes me no time at all for cable management. Maybe it's just I'm so used to moving parts around.

Edit: As for the SSD convo. The HDD is the slowest piece of any computer, and an SSD only fixes that by a little. For games the only 2 I noticed a serious improvement was Skyrim and Battlefield 3. Friends would get pissed that I'm loaded and in a map way before them with their slow HDDs lol. On a standard drive vanilla Skyrim isn't too bad, but when you start loading on the HD mods it takes longer and longer to load and an SSD really does help that a lot. The greatest benefit to an SSD is general PC usage. Thing is, you don't really notice the difference until you have used an SSD as your main drive for a while then have to go back for whatever reason. The difference is that subtle, but there enough to piss you off when you are stuck on a HDD again.

**Martin_B** · 11-11-2012, 12:29 AM

Yep, i agree. When I work on my laptop who have only a HDD, i can really feel the difference. With a SSD, all is like automatic, direct. But it's true that it's a big investment for one with a good size and who are of good quality. But you can make like me and try to win one in a giveaway. It's like that i got mine. If you are lucky, you will maybe be able to win one of the two SSD of the giveaway of this forum also.

Ok, for return to the subject of this topic, two new photos of my new cable management. A lot of cable tie inside:

My best cable management ever!

**peti1212** · 11-11-2012, 06:50 AM

Very nice Martin! I like it a lot. You know I built so many systems and cable management is difficult to get right the first time. And even now when I feel I'm pretty good at it, I still learn new things and try out new things on my future builds, eventually what you think used to be awesome is **** already. :P You did a great job with the case you have and the type of hardware you're running (Non-modular PSU).

Edit: I see you tied together the SATA cables and some other cables as well from your previous pictures. One thing to consider for future cable management, though you can still do it without too much problem. You can also zip tie the PCI-E power connectors together to make it looks like it's only one cable going up and then dividing into two pieces, and you can also reroute the SATA cables to go by the side of the back of the motherboard tray, down where you have the gray cables, and then zip tie the sata cables to the gray cables, making it look like there is even less cables, but technically you are only routing it with the other cables.

**brokenwave** · 11-11-2012, 10:10 AM

will post my heater pic very soon too, lol cable management don't do

**najiro** · 11-11-2012, 10:19 AM

hahaha! nice rig martin_B. we do have a "similar" cable management technique of hiding everything at the back.
sorry about the low quality pictures X_X

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BACK
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had a few changes, I still use a HD 6770 there, im using a EVGA GTX 560TI now but cable management is still the same :D

**Pablo 54** · 11-11-2012, 01:06 PM

I agree. Great cable management, Martin_B.

**Pablo 54** · 11-11-2012, 01:07 PM

Najiro,

Who's the PSU manufacturer?

**Martin_B** · 11-11-2012, 04:23 PM

Thank you guys.

Not easy of making a nice one with a PSU of 850W that is not modular... Too many cables...
The thing i like the most with my case, the fact it have a lot of space behind the motherboard!

**najiro** · 11-11-2012, 04:47 PM

Originally Posted by Pablo 54

Najiro,

Who's the PSU manufacturer?

it's a Corsair TX 650..
non-modular.. 80 plus certified.. JUST 80 PLUS X___X
not bronze, not silver, not gold or platinum.. X___X

don't really have much money for building my PC... building that actually took me a year.. slowly upgrading parts piece by piece.. I just got luck with the CM storm trooper case. I traded it with my old Athlon II X4 640 and Asrock 880GM-LE motherboard..

**PP Mguire** · 11-11-2012, 06:09 PM

Seasonic are the OEM for the TX models so nothing to worry about there. It's a good PSU.

If your model is an older one they may have qualified for bronze after you purchased. Current TX650 models are bronze.

**Pablo 54** · 11-11-2012, 07:17 PM

Originally Posted by najiro

don't really have much money for building my PC... building that actually took me a year..

Other than Giga-Bjorn, that's pretty much the norm for me. A piece here, a bit there and after a while TADA! A computer.

**Martin_B** · 11-11-2012, 07:54 PM

It's also that I am doing with the computer of my girlfriend, except instead of buy part, i try to win them in giveaway ^^''
That take really a lot of time, but at the end, I save a lot of money for her.

I plan to finish it next summer by buying with her what is missing, except if I could finally win a complete computer by this time or what is missing. ^^

Ya, i know, I am a really cheap guy, but it's also like that i upgraded my computer... ^^''

**ryandigweed** · 11-11-2012, 10:05 PM

Originally Posted by peti1212

Waiting for Ivy Bridge-E.

You are right, sorry typo, my brain was somewhere else.

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Anyhow, I just finished building the new Main System, and I took some photos. Enjoy!

Kickass Rig man !

**Martin_B** · 11-11-2012, 10:36 PM

The Phantom itself is already kickass. All that is 100% kickass, like would say a famous reviewer on youtube ^^

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