Love all!
Well, the picture was taken while the system was in the making and not final at all; hopefully i'll finish it today. Several cables are not even plugged in. That's the case for the top fan wires Mobstar circled in red. (I won't probably even worry about the path me cables before testing it, in the case I had to remove something.)
Even more, I made no effort to make the picture look good, all the contrary. I wanted to share the "OMG what a mess" feeling I experienced at some point.
The case comes with many accessories to deal with cables. I'll take a new picture when it's all done... let's hope!
You have a good point about cable temperature in general, Noobas, and, actually, the best cabling and the best design electrically-wise is rarely the most beautiful. And, yes, there is some
relatively high intensity on the 12V lines that power the CPU, but mostly the ones for the GPU which can eat 300W+ sometimes.
Fuze, the case is a Cooler Master ATCS 840 (the strict-looking elder brother of the HAF series). It's just HUGE. This is something no one can maybe guess from this specific picture but imagine the motherboard here -which looks tiny- is NOT a mini or micro ATX: it's a full size ATX.
And the video card is a gigantic Nvidia 570 with dual fans. And I can easily put my hand between its bottom and the hard drives array.
There is no such thing here as a case wall BTW, for the simple reason the MB is installed on a fully removable drawer (on ball bearing rails!). Thank you, Cooler Master, you save by poor back here. Just remove the drawer, put it on your desk as you want. Rotate it, flip it,... Install the MB, the CPU, the RAM, the cooling system, the video card, comfortably sitting down in your chair most of the time.
Still several things are supplied to handle cables. They were not installed at the time of the picture. I'll see.
I'll start a thread about building the whole system and why I picked those specific components, with links and pictures, as I think it can be interesting for several of you, even if you don't buy the same thing. I had to do a serious bit of research, so as well sharing it!
Now the problem is that the case is cooled by 3 behemoth 230mm fans (plus the CPU cooler extracting air, and there is another 12cm fan I can use if necessary at the bottom of the case or in an air duct; the PSU being isolated in its own air path). And guess what: the Asus MB can control fans in various ways, except Asus doesn't say what max power the MB can handle for fans (for the main CPU fan, they say it's 12W though). So I don't know if I can connect the huge 230mm fans to the MB or not.
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If there was an issue I think something would have shut it down already. I'll have a look at this temp and BIOS question though. Note the card is very recent so maybe it got the last BIOS.