Everyone swears by routing all cables behind the motherboard tray for a clean look, but I ran into a stubborn fan cable that kept getting pinched by the GPU bracket. I tried routing it under the card itself instead of behind the tray, and it took 45 minutes of trial and error to get it to sit flat without blocking airflow. Why does nobody talk about how much time you lose fidgeting with those tiny cable combs? Has anyone else found a trick for tight spaces near the PCIe slot?
I finished a build last night for a buddy and we spent a good hour arguing about the case front. He wanted the glass panel because it looks cleaner, but I told him my last build with a mesh front runs about 8 degrees cooler under load. I went with the Meshify 2 Compact and used a gentle typhoon fan setup, and his CPU idles at 32C instead of 40C like his old glass-front case. Cable management was a nightmare though because that case has tight channels behind the motherboard tray. Has anyone else dealt with the trade off between looks and temps on a build?