Background:When you've got a 400 watt power supply, all of those wires start to get in your way, and really start to take a toll on the aesthetic value of the inside of your case. You've already got all the drives in, IDE cables, and the floppy cable. This can cause some problems when taking out, adding, or fixing some normal "should be" easy to get to stuff. On a night where I had nothing else better to do, I decided to try and fix that problem using the least amount of money at all. It actually took me a total of 0 dollars to complete this.
Supplies Needed:Very few supplies are needed to complete this simple mod:
Razor
Black electrical tape
The Run Down:
The first step \(in my case\) was to see how this would come out. I had an old AT power supply lying around, so I took that and used that as my test subject.
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That is the AT power supply before I started twisting the power cables to make them less messy. I first had to use a razor to cut the cable ties off of the wires in order to twist them. \(Remember to always cut away from yourself, or suffer the consequences\) Also be careful not to hit any of the other wires with the razor since it will most likely cut them too since the razor is a sharp tool.
After the cable ties were off of the wires, I was able to begin twisting. I did this in a clockwise manner, until I though the spiral was tight enough where it would be slim and good for the inside of the case. After that was done, I took two piece of that black electrical tape and put one piece close to the adapter, and one closer to the power supply to keep it from coming unwound. I repeated this for all the sets of wires until there were no more to twist.
At the end of this mod, I came up with the following results:
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The entire mod took me about 15 minutes to do between getting the supplies, taking pictures, doing the mod itself, and taking some more pictures. If you have the supplies on hand, it's not going to cost you anything, and will help air move through your case providing for better cooling, as well as make it look nicer.
After I was done making sure that I was not going to mess up anything on my real system, I went ahead and started twisting in the main rig. Before I would say that it was pretty much a wreck, but after twisting some of the wires, it's not as bad. \(Note how I could not twist that rather large string of wires going to the motherboard...\)
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