In this video I’m keeping cable management simple—because it really doesn’t need to be expensive or complicated to look clean. The whole approach is built around three principles I follow on basically every budget desk setup: modularity, accessibility, and power. If you nail those, you can swap gear, troubleshoot fast, and keep the top of your desk looking like an actual workspace instead of a spaghetti bowl. I break it down into three core components: a solid surge protector, a “central hub” (usually a cable tray under the desk), and a basic cable management kit to handle routing and cleanup. The main idea is to create one clean place where everything meets, then run only what you need from there. I also talk through practical tips to keep things tidy over time—because the cleanest setups are the ones you can actually live with and maintain, not the ones that fall apart the second you change a keyboard or add a monitor.