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FRAME 4000D Cable Management guide

A therapeutic exercise or something you dread doing. Cable management is essential when assembling your new build. This means either connecting everything in a rush and hoping that the side panel closes on the first try or actually using the multiple cable routing straps and hooks conveniently placed on the back of the motherboard tray and within the case structure itself.

We know which option you usually choose. Be better.

Having a clean cable management is not only satisfying but also helps you when you should come into the situation that you need to troubleshoot your system or when it comes to upgrading.

In this example we use iCUE LINK products such as the RX120 RGB fans along with the iCUE LINK TITAN 360 RX LCD AIO.

Note: The 24-pin cable from the power supply should be routed through the cutouts of the case before installing the radiator or fans in the side position. In our example here, you can do this with the radiator and fans already installed, but it is a tight fit.

We mounted the motherboard, the processor, the memory, the AIO, the fans, and the power supply into the case and are now looking at the back of it. The only cables that are fixed within the case are the ones for the front panel I/O.

First, we route the front panel I/O cables to their connectors on the motherboard. With the FRAME 4000D this is the USB-C and USB-A port connector, the HDAUDIO connector as well as the connectors for the power switch, power LED, and power button.

Then we connect the 24-pin ATX connector. Keep in mind that feeding the cables through the hole cutouts is a tight fit with the radiator and fans installed in the side position and that this only works with the smaller connectors (Type-5) that the RMx Shift uses.

Next, we add the cables for the EPS connectors. The FRAME 4000D case conveniently has a cutout placed at the top and therefore enough space to reach the two EPS connectors of the motherboard.

Now we need to supply power to the AIO cooler, the fans, and the graphics card. This is done by using two more PCIe cables from the power supply (Note: Depending on your GPU, you may need an additional or different cable).

The iCUE LINK system hub holds magnetically in the embossed section on the back of the motherboard tray. All we need to do is connect the PCIe power from the power supply, the USB2.0 cable and the 3-Pin monitoring cable to the USB2.0 header and CPUFAN header on the motherboard. Then we can use the iCUE LINK cables to connect the pump and the first fan in the chain to the system hub which has two channels. The fan we connect to is the first on the radiator at the top.

Now all that is left is to connect the iCUE LINK fans. All it needs is three short iCUE LINK cables that connect from the bottom fan to the bottom fan in the front. From the top fan in the front we connect to the fan in the top that is closest the the front. Lastly from the top fan closes to the back to the single fan in the back.

Thanks to iCUE LINK we connect all 10 fans with the help of 4 cables with single connectors only. An example of an iCUE LINK 600mm cable can be seen in the picture above. There are different lengths available.

Now you only need to connect power to your graphics card, and you are done. Time to power up the system.