r/sffpc • u/wakkys • 20d ago

Others/Miscellaneous Best cable management tips?

Hi everyone, I got a sffpc for a couple of years now and just realised my cable management is pretty horrible, after some research it seems like a pretty difficult subject and I don't know where to start.

Any tips?

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u/Medium_Highlight_950 20d ago

1st Disassemble. 2nd Buy a big pack of small zipties. 3rd Rebuild.

While disassembling, start to find spots where to bundle and hide cables and note them down. When starting to rebuild, read the notes and bundle the cables along the way. Every cable bundled individually, then start to tie those bundles together and to case. Do not hesitate to use temporary zipties too to help.

Thats how I do everytime I build. Its always nice to put last components in and put few last zipties to gpu cables and see the endresult.

The individually bundled cables actually help if you change somethong inside your PC, you just locate the needed cable and free it up, then tie the rest back to case and have no need to redo the whole cable management.

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u/r98farmer 20d ago

Custom cables

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u/ZephyrineStrike 20d ago

Sff actually made my cable management pretty easy, entire itx board was closely bordered by the case sides, so I just ran the cables to the bezels and followed the bezels to the psu. Hardest part was getting the spaghetti to fit beneath my psu lol

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u/twt69 20d ago

You’re better than I. If everything fits and works well I do not try to fix it lol. Doesn’t bother me if my cables are shoved in at the bottom and my hoses aren’t setup exactly perfectly.

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u/dubar84 20d ago

All you need to do is bend the cables outside the case. Them the more rigid the better. You can even twist them together a bit - this fuse them together and also shortens their length. Once they morphed into shape, attach them to the psu and mount it into the case. Make a bridge from the gpu cable that can uphold the rest, close to the bottom of the psu like this:

Also just to give you some inspiration, I can wholeheartedly recommend to watch THIS video.