This is my first pc build and I don’t know how to make this “neat”, or just in a way where the back panel does not look this bad. Any tips on how to make this better would be appreciated

Hey all, I recently took my PC apart for a full clean and after modding my 3060ti whiney fans with Artic p12's, decided it actually looked quite sweet sitting open on my desk. I'm aware of the risks of an open build and am careful around my PC, it's much better to clean and maintain for me. I'm just aware I could do a much better cable management job.

The back is an outright mess but I'm unsure what to tie together, and from the front there's things like the GPU cable that annoys me, especially the 2 pin having off the top, and the CPU fan has a splitter that I've just wrapped around. The SSD is also annoying but the cable doesn't really bend or move in a way that allows me to do anything with it, tbh I was thinking of removing it and just using my 1tb M.2. I do have a second m.2 slot but they are a bit expensive right now and I have two big old HDDs I could use for storage too if anyone can think of a way to have them all connected aesthetically.

Is there a better way to do any of this or alternatively, nicer looking or shorter cables that would make this look any better? Thanks

VGA1 = PCIe ? From old to new cable

My second SFF build. Had to change cases as the 9070XT didn’t fit in the old case.

Hoping to get some Noctua Brown Sleeved cable and will look to Anodise the Alloy Case Black.

NCase M3
AMD Ryzen 5800x
Aorus B550i Pro AX
Corsair Dominator DDR4 36GB 3600Mhz
Aorus Elite Radeon 9070XT
Noctua NH-U12A Chromax CPU Cooler
2x Noctua NF-A12x25 PWM Chromax 120mm Fan
Corsair SF1000 Platinum PSU
Samsung 980 Pro 500GB
Samsung 970 Evo Plus 2TB

This may be a better place to post my question. What are you guys doing for the GPU power cables? I have three 8-pin pcie cables, and they're ugly. I looked at quite a few of your setups, and most of you are using a 12-pin connector which seems to be easier to clean up.

Have these 2 cables and have no idea where they are to go searched videos on other platforms and still company lost

I’ve been going back in for almost a week to cable manage, I think I did okay 🙂

(Ps: I saw that usb c is not properly plugged in on the picture, I went back in no worries)

Just moving chassis. I was experiencing high vram temps. About ready to test it. No RGB, I think it's pretty clean.

Fun case to build in

Had to throw together a ryzen/ 5070 build and this time I’ll try doing it neatly, there’s not much going on to be fair so was pretty straightforward in terms of building it

Inspiring by this link:

https://www.reddit.com/r/overclocking/comments/fpw67s/this_fan_on_the_back_side_is_it_worth/?utm_source=embedv2&utm_medium=post_embed&utm_content=post_body

Last Nov., I read the above link, and track down the original master builder. Turns out he's a builder in Russia. My question was, where do those orange metal bar come from? He told me he uses a 3d printer to print those metal bar. Now, it's clear that his build is:

a) water cooling
b) regular case w/ regular thickness metal aluminum at the back
c) the back side is a closed panel case

so I wonder if I can do the same thing w/ fan cooling only. After 1 yr. and 1 mth. of upgrading to a new PC, turns out it can be done.

1) My case is a thick 1 giant single sheet of aluminum bent into that S shape, so i don't want to drill any holes on such a fine case
2) my case is open frame, so while the photo in Reddit has a fancy Germany design fan, the VRM temperature still follows the 1st law of Thermodynamics, whereas w/ an open frame case, all the hot air does get out
3) the trick is to find a thin (15mm) and quiet (9 to 18 dB) fan w/ high 98 CFM 140mm fan, i..e, lots of blades, in this case, 17 blades

The biggest problem is to find 2 mending plate that the length is what I needed. I found some aluminum mending plate, but the length is too short. So by Xmas of 2025, the only mending plate that fits the length I needed are Stainless steel 304. I need to drill 2 holes, turns out 1 of them doesn't fit and end up drilling a 3rd hole. To do that, it took 4 drill bits, and a total of 15.5 hr. of drilling, separate into a no. of days, and Home Depot refunded all 4 drill bits, as they agree it shouldn't fail in 1 day.

By contrast, at the front of the PC, I built 2 aluminum mounting plates for a dual rear exhaust fan matrix, and to drill 8 holes, took just under 10 min. In the end, the fan is great, it covered all the VRM at the back side of the motherboard, and the mount is solid, the rear fan just doesn't move an inch.

How does everyone cable manage their pc so easily? Like everything is going perfect till it doesn't.

Since it does really matter how it looks at the back, it's still something that I want to manage correctly

Hello mates

Just wondering if there is any solution to the gpu 8-pins to look a bit less messy?

Note: This case is Mid-Tower, so this is the only route for cables to come from, and the space is very tight.

Thanks in advance.

It just doesn’t fit in there….

Trying to make it clean!

PS: Its a half Build, waiting for the CPU, GPU and cooler to arrive for final cable Management!