The Art Of Cable Folding

You should put together a little tutorial - those are some pretty cables.

nice work...I'm building a pc soon, so I'll get to try my hand at cable folding...

Nice cabling! To say I'm now humbled... no, embarrassed with my cabling is an understatement. Ouch.

I started doing this earlier on in my life with wireloom.

It was pretty decent, and worked really well for the time being. It seems however than this surpasses it by far.

ah...you had giving me an idea what should i do on this weekend. lol...

I do like the pictures, very clean. Also if you can tuck them out of the way properly they won't get in the way for air-flow.

That being said, for those who don't like folding cables or can't for the life of them, pick up Rounded-IDE cables etc, they help keep the case neater and are a better for airflow too. Sometimes easier to tuck out of the way too.

The cable folding is a fantastic idea. All the best ideas look so obvious after someone show it to you. I am pretty surprised that they wouldn't show the guts of the case though... Considering anyone who buys one can open it up, take a picture and post it online. But then again, I think that if I saw John asking me how the inner workings of my stuff worked I'd be worried. Someone that evil can't be up to any good ;)

Very good lucking body inside the CPU...
Nice and neat arrangement....
I'm really impressed....
What a soft hand.... :wink: :eek:

Wow. When I do cables they end up a complete mess. I never thought about folding them that way :)

Nice job, I think a cobweb folding article would be more use in my case :oops:

Nice way of handling the mess John, perhaps you could also try it with an Antec P180? I could use some advice; the cables are usually too short to sticky anywhere :???:

When working for Micron PC back a few years... I learned proper cable folding and now these days I am shocked at the mess that pc makers deliver.

Cool - I never gave it a thought that this was a way of organizing the cables inside a PC. Proper airflow wasn't the main priority the last time I built my last PC, though. You don't need to pay attention to things like that on a mac ;)

The folded wires take less space, look good, and help with the airflow. But is it really worth all the extra work time and added expense to the consumer??

It is very colorful! But dealing with it seems to be a 'nightmare'. I just can't tell which is which!

Its been a while since I assembled a PC. And its true I never really cared about the whole airflow crap back then. But now I seriously need a fast laptop or a PC for some Linux experimentation. Maybe I will go with assembling my own this time. I think 2 laptops are enough already.

If I could of cabled like this, then I would have never gone Mac . . oh wait, there was the whole Microsoft Windows thing . . . so ya, I would have still gone Mac . . . nice work though!

I think people have too much time on their hands. Most of my hdd's just hang out the side of the box. using the cable to hold them off the floor. I haven't placed the sides on any case I have had for the last 15 years. :wink:

Deee-licious! :razz:

Wow, I didn't know cable folding could be such an artform. :lol:

Does folding those ide cables not have adverse effects on the signal integrity? I know when laying out a board there are no 90 degree signals. Honestly can't remember why you don't, but thought the ide cables would need the same type of constraint.

BTW, what are the specs of that first computer? Looks pretty old... ugly mobo and the IDE HDD give it away heh

Cool write-up. I used to worry about the interior of my case and would spend a few hours during initial hardware install to make sure everything looked "pretty". I still do this for my main system, but have given up all hope on my dedicated test computer since I change out hardware on a near-daily basis lol

Folding Cable is not that bad, I had a job back in the day, build Custom "Gaming" machines for a computer store. Over time you develop tricks and can build them pretty fast.

Nice Job John, Super Clean!

Those pictures just gave me some bad flashbacks. I used to work in a factory building pc's and we used to fold the cables like that. Repetitive work is not good for the soul, or the body for that matter.

John that was amazing................. :shock:
gonna try it

I was going to suggest black cables when looking at the black beauty, but then I saw mk2!

Very nice work. But still not as clean as the internals of a mac :)

Those do look nice on the inside!

Nice looking cables, but still not as clean looking as a Mac Pro!