Tom's Hardware Member System Gallery

[hellfire24]

CM Storm is pretty sick, the Scout 2 is awesome.

BUT... I have taken a liking to Fractal and NZXTs low end budget cases.

this may sound stupid but i think Bitfenix makes some decent cases.i have dealt with shinobi and shinobi xl and they are quite easy to work with and spacious too.the build quality is great and plenty of space available for cable hiding and multi-gpu setups.so,bitfenix has my thumps up

 

[Snowsniper2]

The only cases ive owned are non brand name ones and one Thermaltake case and my current case being an Aopen nagas G5

 

[hellfire24]

put a block on your gpu

 

[Motopsychojdn]

Give him time hehe, he needs to save up and get more rads, fancontrollers and start going crazy
Moto

 

[nstiver]

XD still better then my 1988 toyota Carolla
Either way nice job on the cable management mind if i use the idea with the black tubing?
I think its a great idea for sata cables as well ill probsbly sleeve the sata cables in my system first though

The Corolla is a chick-magnet. I have a 2003 and they just wont leave me alone. The car just oozes testosterone.
NFL spam for me too-it moves around when I try to close it. Going back on topic now.

 

[mlcaouette]

Yup I gotta save up for future projects. Fan controller is gonna be the first priority. Then once I have extra money again I'll get another radiator and a gpu block.

 

[peter_4059]

Got the graphics card today so time for some photos. The parts list is:

ASRock Z77 Extreme6 ATX LGA1155 Motherboard
Intel Core i5-3570K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor
Saphire 7870 GHz Edition OC GPU
Corsair Vengeance (4x4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
OCZ Vertex 4 128GB SSD
Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
Cooler Master HAF X ATX Full Tower Case
Corsair Professional Gold 750W 80 PLUS Gold Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply
Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (64-bit)

images to follow...

 

[Motopsychojdn]

Use photobucket or imageshack mate, and tidy those cables up!

Moto

 

[jrwizbang]

Demcables.jpg Other than that, good looking build. Just try centralizing the cables more, like having them more unified.

 

[peter_4059]

ok - had another go at uploading images - here goes...

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[Motopsychojdn]

Picture success,
Time to find a decent cooler and tidy the cables when you fit that
Moto

 

[amuffin]

You've got a modular PSU, and one of the best cases for cable management......

 

[peter_4059]

Thought it was looking pretty tidy?

 

[silveralien81]

Thought it was looking pretty tidy?

It looks good in a functional (won't mess with air flow) way. But is far, far from the OCD cable management style of Moto and others.

 

[FlintIronStagg]

In other words don't post unless you want to be told your cable management sucks
Main reason I don't post mine. Airflow is fine, but I would be told it sucks

 

[silveralien81]

In other words don't post unless you want to be told your cable management sucks
Main reason I don't post mine. Airflow is fine, but I would be told it sucks

That's no reason not to post pics of your rig. Besides, they are usually very polite about telling people their opinions on builds.

 

[peter_4059]

Suggestions for what/how to improve would be helpful and appreciated

 

[Motopsychojdn]

Yup, As well as having a go for your cables, I will actually try to help you improve them (So I don't just come across as an OCD Monster hehe)
If you start up a thread and link it in here we can advise you more, instead of filling the gallery up with wirebased madness (I'm pretty sure I've posted a ton of stuff in this gallery already on the subject though)
Like the X has a cpu cutout at the back yes? so use that to feed the 8pin Cpu plug through, it folds over the top of the mobo neatly rather than trailing a few inches in view from the top, creative routing often tidies things up massively
and Silveralien and Flint are both bang on, If you post in a 'showoff' gallery then you WILL get folks picking, thats the nature of the beast, but decent folks will also try to help you out,
Don't not post, have things reasonably tidy and be prepared for some criticism, the Rig you poured 850 hours into lovingly may not be everyone elses cup of tea,
but its yours, you built it and you have a right to be proud of your work
Moto

 

[hellfire24]

^add a decent cpu cooler and tie the cables.

 

[Motopsychojdn]

^add a decent cpu cooler and tie the cables.

**Time to find a decent cooler and tidy the cables when you fit that **

Seeing the pattern here?
Hyper 212 is a decent cheap option to check out for starters
Moto

 

[Robi_g]

I find electrical tape works nicely to sleeve cables, just make sure they're straight when you do it and don't try to heat wrap the tape to the cables else you just swallow a load of fumes and everything melts and it really isn't pleasant

 

[mocchan]

Well...I decided to re-wire my case as well as colour in some of my PSU cables black :lol: They were getting on my nerves whenever I took a peek inside!

Now that I look at the picture of how my rig looks, I noticed my front audio connector I'll have to get to that later...

 

[garage1217]

Have some covers to make, but here is mine at the moment. Got it rolling late last night.

 

[AbdullahG]

Great color scheme and build (the PSU is a bit of an eye-sore , but reliability comes first)!

The tubes seem a little too close to the GPU. I would curl them up or elevate them a little.

 

[mjmjpfaff]

Have some covers to make, but here is mine at the moment. Got it rolling late last night.
http://www.garage1217.com/NEWPC/300RBUILD/11-5-12/Drawing2.jpg

Specs?