Question How can i cable manage in a small case?

[Utkarsh Manwani]

Hey, I recently purchased a Chiptronex X510 RGB. It is a budget friendly cabinet and comes with RGB. However I realised only after my purchase that the backplate area was very thin and the cables can not be managed very well.
Please suggest how you would along with tutorials regarding tge same

P.S. Note that I cannot return or refund the case and am stuck with it until I purchase another one later. Suggest the best solutions for now.

 

[Karadjgne]

Time and patience and several small black zip ties. Your issue is one inherent in small cases, one of the prices that needs paying that full towers make look easy.

 

[CountMike]

Hey, I recently purchased a Chiptronex X510 RGB. It is a budget friendly cabinet and comes with RGB. However I realised only after my purchase that the backplate area was very thin and the cables can not be managed very well.
Please suggest how you would along with tutorials regarding tge same

P.S. Note that I cannot return or refund the case and am stuck with it until I purchase another one later. Suggest the best solutions for now.

What about PSU ? If you had a (semi)modular PSU you could use just cables needed and have less of a mess.

 

[jsmithepa]

Don't block air flow, that's it.

 

[Utkarsh Manwani]

What about PSU ? If you had a (semi)modular PSU you could use just cables needed and have less of a mess.

The power supply is a MWE 450w PSU
I'm not sure whether it's semi modular or not as there are two types.
Also the PSU is mounted at the top.

 

[CountMike]

I can find only non-modular ones, do you have it already ?

 

[Utkarsh Manwani]

I can find only non-modular ones, do you have it already ?

Yes I have a non modular MWE 450w.
Note- I have already built the system and it is working fine, I am asking for the cable management if in the future I would like to add fans and the mess doesn't restrict air flow

 

[Karadjgne]

Fan choice cam mitigate most if not all of that worry. Most ppl opt for high cfm fans for air cooled intakes. The issue there is that to avoid high rpm noise, they'll go with a slower, quieter fan. Which has even less static pressure. Anything like wiring or hdd cages etc will block/divert the 'breeze' created by those fans, they assume the air goes nowhere they want it to be. Partly right, partly wrong.

The rear exhaust will create a low pressure area, a vacuum, near the fans intake. Nature abhors a vacuum and any available nearby air will move to fill that void. You'll not see this unless done with smoke or something else to make the air visible. But it'll stretch all the way back to the intakes, which only need to replace any moved air. That's air flow. It doesn't need to be a gale, forced air shoved around the case, it just has to move, and take the heat with it. A higher static pressure fan will force the air past/through obstructions, putting cooler air towards the back of the case. That's not airflow, that's just supply. Half of what's needed for flow.

In smaller cases, that's actually easier to accomplish. Far less volume to move. A single fan affecting a larger proportionate area. In a full tower, a single 120mm exhaust won't move much at all, but in a box half its size, moves proportionately more.

Cable management is less about airflow as a figure, and more about seriousness. It's one thing to throw some pieces in a pc and not care about looks or pride, just absolute performance, it's another to see someone spend the hours necessary to put it together nice.

If worried about air movement, a higher sp fan will solve that, your case doesn't require high cfm fans, it really doesn't have the volume to worry about. Your cable management will boil down to 2 things. The amount of time you want to put into it, and the persistence in accomplishing the intended results. If that means getting some extensions for fan wires, hot-glue, zip ties, wire combs, velcro etc, so be it.