How is your cable management?
Share your tips and tricks
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 by Bebi Bulma | Discussion: Personal Computing
I was looking at this cool flickr set and saw how neatly the cables were organized and up off the floor, looked down at my own attempt at organizing and thought...ok I seriously need to do something about this.
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I tried labeling some of the cables and tying up some of the excess cabling...but it feels like an exercise in futility. 
Not to mention makes it really difficult to clean under there (doh). And as for that hole in the desk brace thing...yeah I tried that too, then all the cables coming through it kept getting in my way and got kicked a lot, that thing is worthless.
So...do any of you have a better system? Worse? 
Show us your organized chaos and share your tips and solutions, because I'm sure this is an area we could all use a little help with. 
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Reply #42 Wednesday, January 28, 2009 6:25 PM
tried to order the rack from IKEA, but they wanted $18 to ship a $10 wire rack! The hell with tha
that just like computer parts from newegg.com
I've ordered all my parts from newegg and never had a problem with insane shipping. 
newegg
Reply #43 Wednesday, January 28, 2009 6:40 PM
Quoting DarthCaedusMorgan, reply 16
tried to order the rack from IKEA, but they wanted $18 to ship a $10 wire rack! The hell with tha
that just like computer parts from newegg.com
I've ordered all my parts from newegg and never had a problem with insane shipping. newegg
How about this item i had to buy just one of these small items, for $12 and had to pay $6 bucks just for standard shipping. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822998001
its the small and cheap items that I get annoyed with for shipping charges. Im fine with large items, newegg is great anyways
Reply #44 Wednesday, January 28, 2009 6:54 PM
Well half the cost of the product for shipping isn't as bad and TWICE the cost of the product for shipping. But it's always like that on small products anyway.
Reply #45 Wednesday, January 28, 2009 10:28 PM
At least all your cables are connected to stuff...
Reply #47 Wednesday, January 28, 2009 10:55 PM
Nah, he's just got an ultra slim tower, we just can't see it.
Reply #48 Wednesday, January 28, 2009 11:52 PM
It's one of those clear cases.
Were's the power button?
Reply #49 Tuesday, February 3, 2009 8:24 PM
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Reply #51 Tuesday, February 3, 2009 8:47 PM
LOL yes...I tried vacuuming in the first shots, but with all the cables in the way it made it a bit difficult.
Reply #52 Tuesday, February 3, 2009 11:09 PM
Very nice!!!!!!!
I think I might try that with my desk.
It's little harder with a glass desk.
Reply #53 Tuesday, February 3, 2009 11:36 PM
me too, as seen in my previouse pictures I will upload a photo for my charging cord solution.
Reply #54 Tuesday, February 3, 2009 11:57 PM
Got a mess here as well, lol. Plenty of stuff plugged into all of the USB ports and a USB hub, and my room is also the center of our home network and where the internet comes in. It's a pretty big mess, but somehow I manage to keep most of it behind my computer. Except the USB hub, where I have my iPod, card reader, and flash drive connected. And the charger for my "wireless" mouse. And my Skype phone. *sigh*.
Reply #55 Tuesday, February 3, 2009 11:58 PM
Nicely done Steph. 
Looks a lot better.
Here's another neat, affordable and simple way of organizing cables at the back. With a little imagination and tinkering I'm sure that could be improved. I've seen a bunch of cool DIY ideas floating around; I guess it's just a matter of using a little creativity and elbow-grease.
Our little puppy at home decided he would chew up the audio cables going into my subwoofer the other day. 
It didn't look like he was doing anything silly while he was down there so I didn't think anything of it. Then I noticed my speakers weren't working at all.
Luckily, he only damaged the 3.5mm stereo cables that can be easily replaced, and not the actual power or speaker cables. Gawd... if he'd started chewing the power cable...!! 
Reply #56 Wednesday, February 4, 2009 9:26 PM
And this is how mine looks now...sometimes better, sometimes a lot worse!! 
Reply #57 Wednesday, February 4, 2009 9:49 PM
This is my charger station solution.
Reply #59 Thursday, February 12, 2009 8:50 PM
looks pretty cheesy and looks like more for internal case use, I don't like because, it looks permant,
Reply #60 Thursday, February 12, 2009 9:06 PM
mine and my partners computers sit side by side and i decided to clean up the cables by first using twist ties to group them altogether, then leaving enough room at either end for connections i got a large diameter hose and put a split down it, then i fed all the tied cables into the split, then tied the hose back together. now all i have under the large desk we use is 2 power boards with all the plugs in them and then some very neat looking hose which i have attached to the wall with adhesive clips.
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Reply #41 Wednesday, January 28, 2009 6:17 PM
that just like computer parts from newegg.com