Cable Management: Transforming Chaos into Order

The setup doctor cures bad cable management, transforming chaotic setups into organized, functional spaces.

### " The Setup Doctor" Transforms Sammy's Disastrous Setup into a Stunning, Cable-Managed Oasis
* 🔗  LTT's "The Setup Doctor" series features house calls to **transform viewers' setups**, starting with Sammy's **disastrous setup**.
* 🎮  Sammy's setup includes **poor cable management**, an **incorrectly built PC**, and **cluttered spaces** in the bedroom and living room.
* 🩺  The treatment plan involves using **LTT magnetic Cable Management arches** and the **Secretlab Magnus Pro desk**.
* 🏆  The setup transformation process involves **fixing Sammy's PC**, **managing cables**, and **setting up the desk and accessories**.
* 🧑‍⚕️  The Setup Doctor and the team work together to tackle various challenges and **implement creative solutions**.
* 🎁  The final setup features **neatly managed cables**, a **functional and aesthetic desk setup**, and a **transformed room**.
* 👍  Sammy and his father are delighted with the stunning transformation, and the results showcase the **power of an organized and well-designed setup**.
* 📺  The "The Setup Doctor" series aims to continue **transforming setups** and helping viewers create **better, more functional spaces**.

you know, they say, First Impressions last a lifetime. You better hope that's not true. My God, I'm so stressed just looking at this. What is this cable hammock? What did you do? I'm getting fired. My anxiety level is like up here. There's more. Yes, and this is my dad's setup. Wait, this is the bedroom setup. It's clear at this point that your condition is genetic. Thankfully, the setup doctor has the Cure. Just take one of these LT magnetic cable management arches three times daily for a week and check back in with me. Oh, that's it. Well, there is also the suppository. Bad cable management is a disease and someone's got to cure it. That's why lonus became the setup doctor. My name is Sammy and I'm the social media coordinator at liance Mir group. I am 27 years old. I just work. You got some nice decorations. You know how many computers do I see? Well, one, two, this skeleton of one. I see another one outside the room. Yeah, I won at the

Christmas party. You know, the Christmas party was uh 4 months ago, right? I'm a busy man. This monitor is just on its stock stand, and it has a two-headed monitor arm right behind it. Uh, and this one, okay, what else are we dealing with today? When I submitted my application for uh the KO management video, I was pretty confident I was going to win just because my setup is pretty horrendous. This is where my parents usually watch, watch their, you know, their K-dramas and their shows. You like the big bezels on this TV? I do, I like big bezels and I cannot, and on the back I think it's not as bad, but I don't think so, brother, it's functional. Here's an unusual technique. It's called put all the cables in the front and don't plug any of them in. All right, first things first, we're going to have to get that, oh wow, that's really heavy. You know what? I've got a couple of other patients to attend to. Uh, next up is going to be Dan.

thankfully, I've got my cable management Med students to step in and get us started. Uh, lift with your legs, huh. I don't want you to need a real doctor. Good luck, everybody. First things first, we're going to take everything on your desk and put it into buckets. Let's go. You like Halo? I love Halo. Which one's your favorite? Halo 3, baby. Respect. Oh my God, Sammy. What? Oh, he didn't put the IO shield in. Yeah, and he didn't give it to me, Andy. So this desk needs to go upstairs to his dad's room. So we need to go clean up his dad's room to make space for the desk. My dad's step is actually cleaner than mine. Now, this is what happens when you tidy. Nah, don't worry. We'll get you there. Wow, everything is still chaos. It looks like I didn't miss all the fun. Then our treatment plan is based around the LTT magnetic Cable Management arches and the secret lab Magnus pro desk. The cable management tray on the back spans the entire length of the desk.

making hiding your cable mess a breeze. And thanks of the power pass through up the leg, we don't have to worry. We'll always have the right length of cables whether we're sitting or standing. And while the desk pad is oh so soft, the whole desk is also magnetic. And Secretlab has a host of magnetic accessories to keep everything in its right place. Radio head reference and it works brilliantly with our cable management products too. Learn more in the link in the description. Why don't we get the hardware stuff in place sure. And then we can figure out how many cables we need to support the stuff that he's actually got plugged in. Wait out of all the computers you have, this is the one you want to put in there. You don't even have your GPU in the right slot brother. Oh yeah, so this one's broken. Well, and it goes that's not my problem. We're cable managing the room, not the computer before we put your system in the holder that goes under the Magnus. Can you tell

me what makes you think this top slot doesn't work. Uh, I had a pcie extender, and I kept taking in and out, and I think this ran out of like the amount of times I can take out before it expires. Okay, because all the pins seem to be fine, and their Springs are. Oh my God, who built this computer? Do you see how scuffed this is? What did you do? I took it in and out. Also, why do you only have two screws in your motherboard, one of which isn't even in all the way? You only need two, and you only have two. No, you do not only need two screws for a cooler. Oh, yeah, no. So, uh, this was when this wasn't working. I thought it was a AO issue 'cause I kept screwing it, and it broke. Yeah, you kept screwing it. I can't tell at this point if L is actually acting up for the camera or he's actually just annoyed by my setup at this point. Oh no, this is horrible. You had bare pins just sitting.

in here like this is 5vt power and ground. If this touches the case, it shorts out. It could fry your motherboard. No, this is actually bad, but it works. You literally were just talking about how it doesn't work. Yeah, yeah. Never watched a PC guide in my life. I just kind of put the shapes in there, and then it kind of worked. Realistically though, Sammy fixing this cluster Jam is not my problem today. Can I have that side panel, please? Here's a tech tip for you. If you can't get the panel on, time to eat some more Doritos. Get that weight on there. Thankfully, the Secretlab desk can support up to 250 lbs. Right there, there we go, easy peasy. Look at that, awesome. The front panel won't fit on because he put this, he put these fans on the wrong side of the thing. He should have moved his radiator back and had the fans inside this [ __ ]. Guy also, two screws, half of them loose for each of them. Oh my God, is this hard drive in the front?

of this case even mounted to anything. No, no it is not. Oh God, uh, don't look in here. Lonus, is that a sealed copy of Diablo I? Yeah, he also has a 6970 that's just out on top of a GeForce 8800 GT with, uh, he also has an IDE drive that seems to be a key stowed in this mountain of junk that fit Sammy. Are you kidding me? It didn't fit. Do three of them not fit? Maybe is it probably. It's probably for like two 140s. They fit, dude. I'm tearing this thing apart. They didn't fit. No, might not. They don't fit. I promise they don't fit. I promise you don't fit. Okay, well I'm moving your hard drive cage back and I'm getting. No, I'm doing it. Give me that. No, I promise you it doesn't. I promise you Lonus need some time alone so we're going to go cable manage in the living room. Just looking at what we have here, I think we might be able to get away with.

the desk solution, which includes two large arches, three medium arches, five small arches, two power bar keys, two power brick holders, as well as the accompanying plates, and a bunch of cable ties. I'm thinking that's going to be enough, but also don't worry, we can just buy more individual ones at LTTstore.com. So, I don't know if this can be an issue, but there's not a lot of magnetic stuff around my media console. As you see, that's totally fine because our magnetic cable stuff comes with metal plates that you can stick onto any surface, and the magnetic stuff works like that. Our power brick holders are pretty neat because you're able to use our LTT store cable ties and just kind of loop them in like that, which actually means that you can use a lot of different sizes of things. So, this might not be a power brick, but what I can do is I can take this tiny media box, strap it on, and we can hide it under here where it's going to be out of sight, but you're

still going to be able to access it if you need it. And then if you ever need to, like plug something in, you can just pull it down. I've done that with your PSVR already. It's just under here. Now that's a pretty nifty way of using it, Adam. Yeah, I was pretty proud when they came up with that. Good job. So we have a bit of a dilemma. We have this nice car-shaped PlayStation stand, and at the front are USB ports with USB sticking out. So I thought maybe if we turn it around and have the back stick out, but then we have all the cables from the PlayStation. So I need a break. You have to choose the lesser of two evils, editor. You can turn this into a lightsaber. [Music] Right, I should be keeping a list of everything that was wrong with Samy's computer. Your motherboard screws were 6-32, your standoffs were M3. I have no idea how you managed to drive some of them in there. I already fixed the 24-pin, but you

know how it has those four that are detachable. Well, they detached. Oh, they were only sucking like this far. I knew my computer was up to expectation. I didn't know it would get that bad. You know you have this headset that has to be coming out the front because you're going to be playing your VR over here. Convenient way to deal with that is if we can kind of have a nice place to hook this up and hang it. So I'm going to put this Cable Mount just underneath here so that the cable can be hung and easily put away instead of just strewing about on the ground. I have a theory that there's nothing wrong with this computer other than that it was not assembled correctly. I'm just going to test that real quick here by putting his GPU back in the top slot. Well, I was trying to turn this on. It wasn't working. Uh, I had forgotten to put the 24 pin back in after I fixed the four pin. So that's why it wasn't

working, but I went and I inspected the front panel connectors, and they're all wrong. Like, the power switch works because it's bridging power and ground, but instead of going this way, it's going this way. Functionally, there is nothing wrong with your top slot. Look, we still have some mystery cables to figure out. I see that we have lots of mystery cables. One is spare speaker wire. Neat, I think it's for the front channel. Oh, it's for the front channel. Oh, unmanaged, the laptop has been there since Google Chromecast. Sorry, it's been there since before the time of Google Chromecast. Yeah, 2013. Yeah, I remember 'cause that laptop was the first gaming laptop I had, and I played League of Legends on it. Nice. Now that I have Sami's computer working perfectly with the GPU in the correct slot, I need to put his Wi-Fi card back in so we can get the latest drivers and all that. So I asked him, Hey, where the heck is your PCI bracket? He goes, No, no, it came like that.

we're having a little BET right now. You are no. It didn't if it doesn't. What do I get then? You get a crappy incomplete Wi-Fi card. Actually, do you know what muing is? M meow. No, meow meow meow meow. I have cats. It's like, it's like you go like this and then like this and they show you off your, your uh, your CH chisel jawline. What if they doesn't come with it? You should do it with me. I don't think that'll be necessary. So, exhibit a, this picture. Oh, is that what bracket is? Oh, that's what you meant, this bracket. This actually isn't the right one though. This is a, uh, low profile one. I have an idea. I found the PCI slot covers that came with Samy's case, and I found the half-height bracket for this card. So what I'm going to do is a little trick, take your mind off that pain. Then what we're going to do is we're going to cut holes in this and

we're going to stick this through here, and then we're going to like attach these together somehow, and make a bracket pull. Oh, that is so cool. It's magnetic. That's pretty cool. I have an update on the wireless card Saga. I can't believe I didn't think of this in the first place. We poked holes, and we were thinking, Oh, how do we secure this to the - we don't need to. Check this out. We're going to screw in the antennas, and that's not going anywhere functional. In all seriousness though, this is a very important problem because if you ever accidentally bumped this antenna thing and it jostled that card, removing it from the slot, it could kill the card, kill the motherboard, or both. I cannot believe how solid this is. Now to get the fresh working computer clipped into the desk. There we go. Wow, that really gets it up off the floor, huh? Okay. In all seriousness, it does touch the floor. I'm at the very, very bottom, but this is a standing desk, so I'm sure it'll go up a bit at some.

point. I got to say a nice metal desk like this is a match made in heaven for magnetically mounting accessories like these antennas or our power bar holders. Now I just got to run these up here is what I would say if realistically I wasn't just going to put this in the thing in there anyway. But there are some things that we're going to want to put on the bottom things like you know excess slack for charging cable for wireless headphones or a controller or something like that. I have little coils hanging down from the other side of my desk with just a little Cable Management arches. It's pretty nice. This is your primary monitor. Yes low sensitivity or high sensitivity. Uh High sensitivity. High sens so you don't need a ton of mouse pad space. Where's your desk pad. Are you going to have a desk pad on top of this. Yes I will. This is not an lmg uh mouse pad. That's fine. It's right games. I don't know. Oh sure right gam store.com. I was about to put some of our

cable management arches on this cable to kind of lock it into that desirable spot, and Adam's like, no, you have to use Secretlab's Cable Management thing with my Bobs there. Fine, you happy? Yeah, looks great. So we need to get it at kind of the height that you'd be at. Is that a short joke? No, I'm short too, so if it was, then I'm allowed. We're average height King in Korea. What is that supposed to mean? Means we're average height Kings in Korea. What, we're in Canada though. If you saying that Korean people are typically shorter, are we? Oh, we are. Yeah, the nice part about this video is we won't have any comments of people not getting jokes 'cause we've had to explain them. Samy, get us at the height you want to be here, right there, okay. And then what height do you want the monitor at? Probably like right like this. This is nice actually 'cause sometimes when I want to play like more like FPS games, yeah, I want to bring the mon closer so then.

it's like this actually problem. I actually had way before, so I can like game like this, you know? Oh, interesting. That is the epitome of first world problems, but it's a very first world problem, but a problem nonetheless. We have easy access to all of our plugs by having our power bar right up here. The cables are nicely managed without too much tension, so you can still pull the TV out. Everything's nicely pressed up against the back of the TV, and we even have our streamer box and our PlayStation VR tucked away out of sight. And how are we making out up here, Reese? Pretty good. We're about 80% of the way there. Wow, making great time. Might be out of here before dinner if you eat dinner at 7:00 p.m. Why do I always end up on people's floors? Okay, I'm turning on your computer. Okay, you ready? Moment of truth. Let's go. Have we actually plugged in the power to the desk? One of the coolest things about the Magnus Pro is that it has its own built-in power distribution, so you just

plug it in down here at the bottom right, and then you got plugs up here for your power bars and all that stuff that just sits on the holder in the bottom. Uh, so the one monitor turned oh well, this one doesn't have the power brick. Okay, do you want to run and grab this power brick? Yes, sir. All right, they're not making this yeser thing a meme. Sorry, sir. Stop it. I'm taking this off. No, my revenge. Denis probably just like had a heart attack right now, and he's not even dead, and he's turning over in his grave. Do you know what else is appealing? A chance for you to receive a visit from the setup doctor himself. That's that's right. He's doing house calls, baby. For now, we're only going to select winners from North America, but if the series gets enough traction, we will be traveling worldwide to fix viewer setups. Make sure to smash that like button, share the video, tell all of your friends, and if you want to enter, all you got to do is like this video, subscribe.

to lus tech tips and submit your info and pictures of your setup in the link in the description to win. Do it. I know you want to. Can we put the camera on the other side? Is there a reason it's on that side? Is there a reason it's so far over? Is that do you want like a really profile look? We're going to put this brick from ug green right here, and then we're going to manage these cables right here so there's just enough slack that you can bring them around top as needed, but that they can hide away down here. But Lonus, how are we going to do that without a cable management that sticks it upwards? We didn't even script this. He's just trying to make it sound scripted. I'm just in the event you have any cables running up or down the sides of your legs, you can use these convenient cable sheaths from Secret Lab that nicely match the aesthetic. We just can't really figure out why we would need them because the desk has built-in power that

goes up the inside of the leg so there's nothing there, and then it has that built-in cable tray that holds everything. Secret lab, you did a too good of a job, by the way. Little hack: if you have a power brick that is too small for the big power brick holder and too big to hold really well with the little cable tie holder, you can use two of the little cable tie holders. I'm happy with this. This one happens to be magnetic anyway, so it kind of to the top of the desk so your watch charger is always going to be there. And then I put two arches so you can grab this one and grab whatever cables you need, and then you can just kind of tuck them back there, and that way they're up nice and flat here so we don't have to look at them. I consider that acceptable. It's a headphone hook, yeah. Oh yeah, and it's magnetic. Oh yeah. Oh, this is from secret lab. Oh, that's cool. I swear to God, Sammy, you run one cable in this whole setup.

and you managed to do that to it Adam. Oh my God, so here, have a seat and let's see. Let, no, no, no, on the chair. Oh, I just want to make sure I'm always lowered. I didn't say ne. Oh my God, not like that. Is that where you want that? That doesn't seem comfortable. Aren't those Wireless? Yeah, but then I don't like charging it. Oh, right now that we can. So then you can just grab one of your USB C's and put it in there. Oh, this is awesome. There's one last piece of the desk that we haven't put on yet, and it's the little Cable Management tray cover piece. Man, it's even cleaner, dude. No, no, no, no, no. This is ridiculous. Your digital hygiene is just as bad as your physical hygiene. I smell good. No, no, not personal hygiene, like your stuff. How do you have this many things that load when your computer Lo like look at all this stuff, half of it's even minimized already. It's a, it's a.

functional mess opportunity cost. It's not opportunity cost every single time you turn your computer on. You're wasting your own time wisdom Adam with the wi. When I when I boot it, I can go get a drink of water, you know. Well, that's an opportunity cost. Why are you drinking water? That's the problem with your generation. You asked before why your generation can't afford food or housing. That's it right there. You drink water. Now to check out what ad him and wow, wait. Dang, give credit to Reese. He nailed it. This is awesome. Yeah, what a transformation. Yeah, I'm glad you were able to get a desk and then hand down this one to your father. This is way better than being on like three different tables. Yeah, now it's only on two different tables. I think my dad would like this. He's the reason why I'm in Tech. Same way my dad's reason I got into technology too. My dad's the reason I got into Tech too 'cause he didn't know and I had to fix everything. My dad

taught me lots of other stuff. So, what do you think? Wow, it looks good. Awesome, dude. This looks awesome. Yeah, this actually looks really nice. In spite of you, what? Because of your help. I help. Well, it means because of your help, but in like, you didn't really help very much kind of way. I can actually breathe in this room now. Look at this setup. We went from absolute zero to complete hero. And in one day, with only four people working on it, we managed to do this room, the bedroom upstairs, which looks absolutely incredible. Like, I would want that set up in my bedroom. And we've even got the living room looking awesome. I did not stick around for Sammy to put back his countless plastic things. But we'll get some b-roll of he's going to do it, and he's going to do a great job. And it's going to look beautiful. It's going to look as beautiful as this. And the whole room is going to be beautiful. Yes, sir. If you don't, we take the desk back. And it's going to be the same deal.

for you. If you guys win an upgrade, I think Adam told you guys how to enter, right? But there's information down below. We can record that. Let's do it. Oh yeah, and massive shout out to Secret Lab. This desk is incredible. The accessories are incredible. I mean, the results speak for themselves. Is this awesome or what? Yeah. Well, your desk won't make you a better gamer. It just makes you look good doing it. I look handsome, right? Can you say I look handsome? I can say I look handsome. Yes, that's am I right, guys? Ah, yes. Another patient cured thanks to the setup doctor. Make sure to tune in next time when the doctor treats his W show producer Dan Besser. You guys enjoyed this video. Why not check out the time I spent my day off doing basically this but at my own house.

I Don’t Know How I’ll Manage This -  The Setup Doctor Ep. 1

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The Cable Management Disaster: A Story of Chaos and Cure

The protagonist's cable setup is a chaotic mess, causing extreme stress and anxiety.

The "Setup Doctor" prescribes the LTT magnetic Cable Management arches and the secret lab Magnus pro desk as a cure for the cable disaster.

With the help of the Setup Doctor and his team, the chaotic setup is gradually transformed into a more organized and functional space.

Secretlab Desk: The Ultimate Cable Management Solution

The Secretlab desk features power pass-through legs for easy cable management and adjustable cable length.

Its magnetic surface and compatible accessories make it effortless to keep everything in place.

The desk's sturdy design can support up to 250 lbs, providing a reliable and practical solution for cable organization.

Organizing Cables and Power Supplies with LTT Store Products

A discussion about using LTT Store cable management products for organizing cables and power supplies.

The products mentioned include large, medium, and small arches, power bar keys, power brick holders, and cable ties.

The unique ways of using the power brick holders for different sizes of items and the versatility of the magnetic cable management system are also highlighted.

Troubleshooting Computer Assembly and Cabling

The computer had detachable cables that caused issues, leading to a reassembly.

The front panel connectors were found to be incorrectly set up, causing the power switch to function abnormally.

The process of reassembling the computer included managing mystery cables and addressing the Wi-Fi card's missing bracket.

Improving Computer Setup with Magnetic Accessories

The wireless card is now securely attached with magnetic brackets, eliminating the risk of damage.

The metal desk provides a perfect surface for mounting accessories like antennas and power bar holders.

Cable management arches are used to keep charging cables and other wires in place, creating a neat and organized setup.

Organizing Cables and Power Distribution for a Gaming Setup

A gaming setup is being organized with a power bar and cable management for a clean look and easy access.

The Magnus Pro desk is highlighted for its built-in power distribution, allowing for a tidy setup.

The video also promotes a giveaway and the opportunity to have the setup doctor visit and fix viewer setups.

Efficient Cable Management for a Tidy Desk

A magnetic cable tray with multiple holders is used for organizing and hiding cables.

The setup includes a headphone hook and a desk cover piece for cable management.

The transformation to a tidy desk is praised, with the mention of passing down the old desk to the father.

Remarkable Room Transformation in One Day

A complete room transformation was achieved in just one day with the help of four people.

The bedroom and living room now have an incredible setup, thanks to the hard work.

The new desk and accessories from Secret Lab have contributed to the amazing results, making the room look absolutely beautiful.