Quote Originally Posted by Freelancer View Post
  1. All the cables painted red, you should feed towards the motherboard and under your expansion slot cards (green arrow).
  2. Feed your PCI-E graphics card power cable (painted purple) behind the motherboard tray and then out of it and straight to the card (light blue line).
  3. Untangle your 6/8pin motherboard power cable (orange) and feed it straight across to the connector (blue arrow).
1.) I think I can do that; you mean they'll run over top of the motherboard just behind the end of the PCI slots?

2.) I can't really feed anything behind the motherboard tray. The gap between the tray and the case wall is around 2mm and the tray runs right up to the drive bays; no way to feed it around there. That and the wires in this PSU are really stiff; some of the reason why my wiring is that way is because I don't want to/can't bend them very far.

3.) The 4-pin motherboard cable? Only reason it goes around that far is because it is really long... I might be able to route it around the rest of the wiring so it doesn't run directly underneath the PSU's fan. Good idea.

Also, my only gripe about my "modular" power supply is that the 4-pin and 8-pin motherboard power cables are not modular. I can't imagine there are a lot of motherboards that require both a 4-pin and an 8-pin at the same time so there's always one extra motherboard power cable attached. Currently all my extra cable length is sitting in the second (empty) optical drive bay.

Anyways, here's a picture of the front of the case; you can see the hard drive cage.

I'm not a huge fan (no pun intended) of the Aspire logo on the front, but could I have a suggestion or two?

1.) Where exactly should make the hole (to make it look like it was meant to be there) given the design of the case?

2.) What size of fan is best?

3.) What tools should I use that are precise enough for this? My mechanical experience relies more on wrenches and screwdrivers than cutting holes in plastic; my power tools at the moment are a jigsaw (unlikely methinks) and a portable drill driver, 3/8" chuck.