Tell jcap to post his desk, and post yours too! [JCAP POST YOUR DESK]

So you bought 2 4890's just to get the 5970's?

I was going to hold out for the 5970's but my 4850's were overheating like crazy... couldn't find the problem with them after cleaning them out and reseating the heatsink, so I bought some 4890's to replace them as the 5 series wasn't out yet.

those are nice cards.

It's a shame you can't route that 4 pin mobo power connector underneath the motherboard.

8-Pin.
yeah, if only I had a dremel.

What do you need a dremel for? Just lift the motherboard off the standoffs and feed the cable underneath, I know a few people that have done this with great success!

It's a 8-Pin cable, only the AM3 boards use them... They're quite a bit thicker.

I know, my HX1000 Watt has a couple 6+2Pin cables, they'd fit under my board just fine... And I was referring to people I knew with AM3 boards as well.

If you want you could also just take the sleeving off and run the individual wires under the board, would be very thin.

True, but it doesn't bother me enough.

Seein' all these people with very little wiring mess in their cases led me to give it a shot.

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I managed to remove a couple cables and rearrange them; is it at least an improvement?

Now, out of curiosity... you all can see there's a big space underneath the hard drive bays. Would it be worth the effort to cut an opening in the front of the case at the bottom there and install an intake fan? Currently the video card sits at around 55 celsius at idle (I did just clean the dust out too) and I wouldn't mind dropping that temp a bit.