If the top of the case allowed for a slit running along the top, then I could just run it straight up the left side of the case behind the motherboard and do what you said. Unfortunately the case doesn't have one so the only other way for it to get up to the connector is by running it straight up to the connector on the front side of the motherboard. I don't like how close it is to the heatsink of the CPU cooler. That won't be an issue after I put in the H60, though. Actually, I could take the motherboard out, run the cable to the top and then place the motherboard directly over top of it. That would work, but it's definitely not an option since the standoff placement is a bit off in relation to my motherboard. They seem to be in the right places, but it took like 40 mins for me to get all those fuckin' screws in. That was probably the most difficult part of transferring all the components if you can believe it.
I checked online for any people who have trouble with the standoffs on this case but I saw nothing, so I'm just guessing my motherboard doesn't like to play nice with cases. Only 6 screws secure my motherboard to the chassis, yet there is this one random 7th one just to the top of the PCI-E cable plugged into the GPU. On the three cases that this MB has been in, not a single one has a hole to place a standoff where that mounting hole is on the motherboard.
I was going to take a picture of the right side of the case so you guys could see the nightmare of cables on the other side of the motherboard, but you'd probably cringe. I did a little less than my best to keep everything flat enough without using zip ties to get the right side panel back on. The Side panel is only dented outwards at a maximum of 20mm so there's not a lot of room to work with behind there, but there's just enough. My main gripe is with how long my SATA cables are. That's really the only thing that bothers me because they take up so much damn space. I'll fix it up a bit more once I put in the H60.
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