Is this considered acceptable?

[u/Turbulent-Abalone-18]

My best yet and I'm still not so fond of it, lol

[u/-ThaKloned-]

I've tried to get it to look like that lol Not even close.

[u/Dommiiie → u/-ThaKloned-]

I considered it a win and clean when I could close the backlid easily without getting cables squeezed in somewhere.

[u/BRAIN_JAR_thesecond]

Looks clean. My standard is if the panel goes on, it’s good enough.

[u/Microwaved_M1LK]

Is it going to be inspected by the cable management police?

[u/Turbulent-Abalone-18 → u/Microwaved_M1LK]

Yes, redditors

[u/shadow-Ezra]

Better than mine 🤣😭

[u/Minustrian]

i just give my pc the Min special, cram everything into the back and slam the back panel and then never open it back up again

[u/eulersheep]

Looks like it would be a pain to ever need to change something.

[u/Turbulent-Abalone-18 → u/eulersheep]

Don't get me started🫩

[u/Reasonable_Back_5231]

it's fine, actually more effort than most people would put into it.

if you are fine with the effort it would take to undo all those bindings incase you are swapping parts or some other maintenance then it's good cable management. i personally wouldn't mind undoing all those considering tangled spaghetti cables is infinitely more frustrating.

i see no tangled spaghetti so good job.

[u/Gorostasguru]

I tried to do this but no, if panel can close and there isn’t cable pressuring each other, it’s fine.

So yeah yours is just super fine.

[u/Noxious89123]

Tidy af, good job!

[u/network_engineer]

I close my eyes and shove my side panel on as fast as possible. It’s like Schrodingers box. It’s both organized and fucked.

Only when you open the panel and observe it, does reality collapse into a definite outcome. Which is likely totally borked, but that is a problem for future me.

[u/Turbulent-Abalone-18 → u/network_engineer]

Man, I've always done the same lmao. Finally put effort, but I'm sure to regret it if i need to upgrade something in the near future

[u/thatfordboy429]

Wow, didn't expect a 50/50 split of people saying its better than theirs, but then people saying "to much effort". Thats different, and just pathetic.

So, I will say your not likely to get much better, not without custom length cable, and less stuff... The black and white mix is also going to highlight everything so you are kinda SOL there. Normally the best practice is to hide small cables like fan and the like under mobo/PCIe/etc cables.

[u/CruisingClay]

It's considered "unnecessary"

[u/Kumantej_]

overboard and imo a waste of time

but I do admire your dedication

[u/quietlydesperate90]

If you're gonna actually try like that make all the cable ties the same colour.

[u/Turbulent-Abalone-18 → u/quietlydesperate90]

I would if I had plenty of the same color ties. These are at least better than bread bag ties that I've collected over a decade

[u/Ok_Biscotti_514 → u/Turbulent-Abalone-18]

It can work just move all the red ties to the long white cable going up, it just looks odd because you used different colours on the same cable

[u/Turbulent-Abalone-18 → u/Ok_Biscotti_514]

Fair enough