Showerthought: My best cable management week was also my worst wiring fail

I spent last Thursday through Sunday rebuilding my whole rig in a Fractal North case, and I was so proud of the cable routing. I used those little velcro straps from Amazon, the 100 pack for like 8 bucks, and I had every fan wire tucked behind the motherboard tray. The front looked like a magazine photo. Then I went to plug in my monitor and realized I forgot to route the GPU power cables before I tied everything down. I had to undo half the straps just to get the 12VHPWR cable through. My buddy laughed and said my organized look was just a pretty lie. Has anyone else spent hours making it neat only to find one cable you missed behind the back panel?

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the_seth2d ago

Man, I feel your pain on that one. @wrenwilson, your CPU power story is giving me flashbacks to my own North build where I had to same exact thing happen to me. Why do they always make that top corner so tight to reach?

wrenwilson2d ago

Dude I did basically the exact same thing with my North build last month. I had all the little fan cables and the front panel headers zipped up perfectly behind the motherboard tray, looked like a professional install. Then I realized I forgot to plug in the CPU power cable up top. The whole back panel had to come off and I had to wedge my hand in there like a plumber working on a sink. Spent like 15 minutes just trying to get my fat fingers past the velcro straps I had so neatly placed. I swore I would leave one strap loose next time just for the CPU cable but I know I wont remember.