This is what happens when you build in a 10 year old ATX (minus 1mm = friction not screws was holding the motherboard in) case that was made before cable management was invented.
Then I added SLI.
Eventually I got a "real" case.
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I've seen some pics of crypto currency mining rigs that scare the hell out me.
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No first hand pictures because the cooler covers it up but I have a Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3, Which you will not has a small VRM section with no heatsinks.
It is running an AMD FX 6100 at 4GHz and has been for about 2 years and before that 3.8 for longer. Still trucking.
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Oh I fucking got this.
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High quality cardboard.
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Most of my machines are complete abominations. Having untidy wires or one little DIY bracket is preschool level hackery. Back at the end of 2003 I slapped a P3 550MHZ board into a Budweiser box. Had it hooked up to a receiver playing music 24/7 for several months. Eventually I moved it to a proper case. Ran the heck out of that machine for years and it was the fastest booting machine I ever had until I got my first SSD. I also had the cardboard washers for the power supply and CD drive.
Amazingly, I still have the box! I used my phone's camera for the third time!
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SOLIDARITY! 
Specs
1 Sun laundry soap bucket
1 Dodge minivan radio
2 4in 8 ohm mid drivers
1 Sony 110W (I think) 6 ohm 8in subwoofer
1 unbranded 120W 4 ohm amp
1 generic PC power supply (fan sold separately)
1 big mess of bare wires (the longer you look the worse it gets)
Completely forgot about it till I saw this thread 
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Currently working on a fire hazard in progress
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Someone gave me their old 12 inch
screwed and caulked onto
a 5 gallon drywall bucket, with a porthole cut into the bottom ring rib. For venting & wires, then stuffed with an old pillow. I had 2 bungee cords holding it to the back seat in the trunk.
It had very boomy sound and had awful fidelity but got awfully loud.
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Haha, brilliant use of the pillow!
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Are you... using the other 4 wires as a seconds cable in one?
Holy crosstalk batman.
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To be honest, I have a TFX power supply and a subwoofer unit I've been thinking of doing the same thing to.
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That's how we've wired a couple of our t1 lines. IIRC, there's nothing wrong with that for carrying some signals. It really depends on the frequencies of the signal you're carrying. Although, I'm not a wiring specialist.
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I would expect it to be fine 90% of the time but if you ever develop a signal fault, and forget you did it this way, it can be hard to track down. Intermittand faults are the worst.
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Classic electrician doing network wiring work. Expect nothing more.
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That's probably the truth. For phone and T1 I think you're fine. I've never had an issue with that T1, but then again, it's only about 6m of cable.
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