 Now as you guys already know if you're following me on Twitter at LinusTech, I am resurrecting the personal build project. I have found the perfect motherboard, the GAX79S UP5, zero coil line, great look, it'll match everything else that I got going on here really well. So my next step is to start making some cuts into the case for cable management. The reason I didn't want to move ahead with any cable management holes before I had finalized the motherboard is because where would I cut the holes if I don't know where the cables are going to be running and what kind of a board I'm going to be using. So I'm going to be cutting some cable management holes, I'm going to be painting some things myself, so things like the outside of the optical drive I'm just going to be priming and spraying with a textured black, whereas the bulk of the case components I'm going to be sending away to Mountain Mods to be painted in black once I have made my necessary cuts. So it never hurts to give a metal surface a quick scuff just to make sure that the primer will adhere. So I'm not going for a perfect finish on this. So I won't be over complicating things in terms of the preparation process. There we go, make sure that's working. You always want to apply spray really, really lightly, like under do it as opposed to over doing it, this can be re-coated in as little as about half an hour, so I'm not too concerned about getting perfect coverage. No one will ever see the top of the optical drive, but I'm peeling the sticker off just for the sake of semi-completeness here. And when you're done, actually make sure you're always in a well ventilated area when you're done with an aerosol, always make sure you clean out the nozzle before you finish. Well those lines seem pretty straight. Trusty Dremel never fails, I've got to do the CPU cutout. I decided not to do any cutouts for ATX 24 pin or whatever else, I'm just going to bring them around like I used to. And then I do want to do a cutout here for routing various stuff under the bottom of the motherboard, same thing here, and to the back of the back plate. I'm also going to do a CPU cutout just so that I can easily change CPU blocks. And yeah. So here's a couple cuts, having been made with the Dremel for the CPU cutout. I'm going to do two more of those, and then I think the last cut is going to be down here for the cable management, and we're making some progress here. And more progress! So I have done the CPU cutout, that's some freehand Dremeling right there. Actually pretty straight all things considered. Should I have marked it? Yes. But I didn't. So there you go. So now there's a door for the CPU cutout, so that'll give me the ability to close it off when I don't want to act. No, I'm just kidding. I'm going to just take that off there. Alright. So there you go. Now I will be able to easily install CPU coolers or remove them without any difficulty. I'm also really not sure what to do about this. That looks kind of goofy with that little gap there. So I might just take this all the way to the edge, but I might just leave it. I mean it's in the right position and it's sort of the right size for the 8 pin. Now all that's left is I want to do some cuts sort of along the bottom here so that I can run things like front panel connectors and stuff like that behind the motherboard without any difficulty. So more progress! It's all good. Alright, so let's call that pretty much it for this personal rig update. So I've thrown the hardware back into the case just so that I can do a little bit of test fitting. So number one is the hole for the 8 pin connector is good and I'll be able to run sort of fan wires through there and stuff and anywhere where I don't want to run fan wires through here if I want it to be even more hidden, there's also a hole drilled here. I should widen that a little bit before I'm done. Actually I can take these ones and those ones. Cathode lights can have their wires run through there. So this, yeah actually you know what? This might just be for the 8 pin. That's what else have we got that's new. Other than that you're not going to be able to see many changes from this side. So you can see now I can run the SATA cables from my RAID card to the back of the motherboard tray where all of the drives will go. I'll just find one of my things of drives. So the drives will go back here and then the SATA data cables will come through here from the back. So I've cut two more cable management holes. This one's for like front USB or front panel connectors, all that kind of stuff. I was thinking about cutting one here for SATA cables if I ever decide to plug the drives directly into the motherboard but I decided not to. So there's the, you can see the motherboard cutout is lined up correctly so I've got access to all four holes back here. There's that 8 pin. I decided against cutting holes over here for 24 pin and PCIe. There's just, I don't think there's any perfect way to do this so unfortunately I'm stuck with mounting the T-virus kind of here. I'll just be kind of hovering off the motherboard tray there. And this is going to just go around it and this is just going to go around it. Yes, I know it's not ideal but I don't really see a better way to do everything at this point with how much hardware I'm cramming in here. I mean remember this is going to be full of a radiator. I thought about doing a mid-plate here but just time and effort constraints. I'm not going to end up doing it so I'm just going to get the whole thing powder coated once I've made all the cuts. Oh right, more cuts that I need to do. So I need a way to get all these cables up past here. Past here because the side panel closes right against this so I'm going to cut big holes here to here so that I can move all my cables up this way. I'm going to widen this one right here and that's going to give me two really good options. Actually you know what I'll probably do? I'll probably do something here as well. Three good options to get cables from the back of the system down to the bottom of the system without running them through the existing cable routing holes here. So that should pretty much fix my only complaint about the TJ07. Well no, my two only complaints. Cable management is terrible and the interior should be black so once we get those cut and powder coated we should be good to go. Thanks for checking out my personal rig update and stay tuned for more. I'm hoping to actually get this done within the calendar year. I know I call it personal rig update 2012 so we're on the clock here. If it runs into 2013 my title will no longer be correct.