Why bother with tidying cables?

Or, worse, hitting a fan as it spins.

Simpler channels may be easier to miss, but theyll be marked by small metal loops.

The inside of a gaming PC, before cable tidying.

These allow you to use cable ties (a.k.a.

Channels are your friends.

Routing holes

The other nice thing about routing channels?

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Between the PSU and the HDD cage?

Thats prime storage space for excess cabling.

Step 1:Place the PC down flat on its left side, and grab the right side panel.

A PCIe power cable being held up next to Nvidia’s RTX 30 series power adapter.

These dont need to be screwdriver-tight, just nice and firm.

How to build a PC: connecting peripherals

Tantalisingly close to the finish line now.

Step 1:Connect any USB peripherals.

The cable routing channels inside a gaming PC case.

This step has the distinction of being the most obvious and self-explanatory step in our ten-page guide.

Step 2:Plug in an Ethernet cable if youre using one, or a USB Wi-Fi adapter.

Or, if your motherboard has onboard Wi-Fi, it probably came with a little dual-wired antenna.

A bundle of cables inside a gaming PC that have been tidily cable-tied to a loop on the chassis.

it’s possible for you to install this by screwing both cables onto the I/O panels matching golden connectors.

Step 3:Connect your monitor to a display output on thegraphics cardnoton the motherboard I/O panel.

Aaaaaand you’re all sorted.

One of several cable routing holes in a gaming PC case.

Ready for your PC’s first boot?

A bunch of PC cables stuffed into the space beneath the case’s PSU shroud.

The inside of a gaming PC, after cable tidying.

Step 1 of reassembling a PC case: Lay the PC down flat, on its left side, then reattach the right side panel so that it sits flush.

Step 2 of reassembling a PC case: Tighten the thumbscrews at the rear of the panel to secure it.

Step 3 of reassembling a PC case: Reattach the left side panel and, as with the right panel, secure it with the rear thumbscrews.

The Logitech Aurora Collection, including the G705 gaming mouse, G715 keyboard and G735 headset.

Connecting various USB peripherals, like a mouse and keyboard, to a gaming PC’s rear I/O panel.

Connecting an antenna to the Wi-Fi connectors on a gaming motherboard’s I/O panel.

Connecting a DisplayPort cable to the rear outputs of a graphics card, which has been installed inside a gaming PC.