yeah I built my own PC. How could you tell?

Unpopular opinion, but I just get a solid side panel and do minimal to no cable management. I don't care about rgb or if the insides look pretty.

Steer clear of the fans and it's all good.

I don't see a problem here.

PS: My opinion on PC innards was formed during the reign of IDE cables.

Just shove the excess cabling into the 5.25" Bay area so you can shut the case

Feels

I can tell this isn't a prebuilt because your PSU isn't a sus nondescript metal box.

Well, the important thing is that the cables aren't impeding the flow of air around the parts that get hot. It doesn't look like they are, so I don't see a problem.

Eeeewww. You know there's a panel on the other side to hide all that, right?

As long as you can close the case, and the cables don't get caught in the fans, it's perfect inside.

I always started out “Imma hide all these cables and make the insides perfect!”

By the time I’d run all the power, fan, IDE, front case, USB, etc. I was like fuckit, I just want to get this thing running. Half-assed jammed the cables out of the way or behind the case ITX backing. Looks like shit, put the case side back on, off I go.

Lots easier now with far fewer cables to be run, cases offer more space behind the mobo for hiding cables and not the 3/4” of space they used to offer.

Imagine telling someone around 2015, with Intel dominating CPU sales and AMD competing toe-to-toe with Nvidia in the GPU market, that you are using an Intel GPU with your AMD CPU. The times, they are a changing

Why did you put an 850W power supply in that? You could probably put a 650W that's much nicer for the same price.

Honestly I can't. Looks like those from the store.

If no side window, who cares, let it be messy! Call it your sleeper office PC.

I could tell because every internal connection isn't hot glued in place.

A case with actual drive bays and ribbon cables everywhere, it if wasn't for that AMD Wraith cooler I'd think I was looking at a machine from 20 years ago.

I had the opposite problem building mine, if I tried to cable manage* I couldn't close the case because there was too much slack

*hiding all the cables in the back panel

How is the Intel arc treating you op? Is it actually good for general purpose nowadays, or still a lot in beta phase?

i always just hang shit somewhere it won’t impede airflow and let it be. the ONE time i bought a prebuilt system was the only time i’ve had a computer with the cables remotely “managed”.

unfortunately one of the zip ties they used impeded the fan on the cpu cooler, but only when the case was closed. it made this buzzing noise that i couldn’t track down for months, and then the motherboard failed. and then the replacement motherboard failed.

i went back to building my own computers again after that.

How's the Intel GPU treating ya? Looks awesome!

If it works, good. That is what matters. Just remember to clean it every once in a while. I've seen fully dust and lint clogged heatsinks before.

I feel so seen.

I love PC parts branded "sparkle". I had a Sparkle power supply and I just hoped I would never see a magic blue sparkle.

What's this "cable management" thing?

I suggest buying a bigger cpu cooler.

Nah, this is some shit I'd expect from eMachines, except their computers wouldn't have a dedicated graphics card, nor two sticks of RAM. I guess your "build" could be adding the card and extra stick of RAM.