Cable Sleeving Guide

[Martin S]

Good stuff Janik!





To the people who PM'd me, I will reply as soon as I get back from vacation (the 24th of this month). Sorry for the wait.

[pgmoney]

I am a rookie compared to most of your guys work, but wanted to post and see if my sleeving looked ok? thanks for any opinions or advice as this was my first time.

[Martin S]

Looks pretty good to me, definitely better than 75% of most beginners' work

There are still some unsleeved cables though

[anachlores]

Nice pictures, but that last one was photoshopped, right? It doesn't look like a natural bokeh.

[Martin S]

Nice pictures, but that last one was photoshopped, right? It doesn't look like a natural bokeh.

Thanks

Last pic was not photoshopped, bokeh looks unnatural because there are no specular highlights. Taken at 50mm f/1.4 with a macro extention tube.

[Kenjiwing]

amazing work as always guys..

[Xien16]

[NFC]

I still wanna know how the BANANA you guys cut your heatshrink so evenly...

[Nikol@]

Hi people what do you think od these sleeve link , is it worse than mdpc-x?

[aberchonbie]

omg, this is just nuts!

[phiquach]

Hi people what do you think od these sleeve link , is it worse than mdpc-x?

i wouldn't use it. next time, i'm going to get some MDPC. it looks nice still but doesn't look as nice.

here is a pic of a system i just did.

Link

[Aedubber]

Hey Martin hope your enjoying your vaca! Your gonna have a bunch of pms lol...

[Xien16]

I still wanna know how the BANANA you guys cut your heatshrink so evenly...

I use a pair of scissors...

omg, this is just nuts!

Thanks

[Riddle]

Just placed an order for the sleeving kit. Thanks to this thread I'm gonna try sleeving for the first time. =)

[Ced-G60]

Hi,

I want to made some change to my build and that will go by a new sleeving, but am trying to find colored cable (white and black) to make them the right length before sleeving. Where do you buy them ?

[Huww]

Hi,

I want to made some change to my build and that will go by a new sleeving, but am trying to find colored cable (white and black) to make them the right length before sleeving. Where do you buy them ?

I know both performance-pcs and frozen cpu stock cable, and crimping gear.

Performance-pcs ships internationally and I'm not sure about frozen cpu.

[Ced-G60]

Thank you Huww,

I had a look in performance-pcs before and didn't see them. But I found it now, had I better look !

[dualbrain]

Usually you can buy 300ft (100 meters) of electrical wire at many many online-etailers (no m0dd1ng-shops) for about 15-20 Euro (Dollars).
A little bit of searching should bring results, no matter where you live

American size:
AWG18 for everything except fans, front-panel-things, USB
AWG26 for everything which is not covered by AWG18

European equivalents (if you want to search in Europe):
AWG18 = 0,75mm² wire
AWG26 = 0,14mm² wire

[Ced-G60]

Usually you can buy 300ft (100 meters) of electrical wire at many many online-etailers (no m0dd1ng-shops) for about 15-20 Euro (Dollars).
A little bit of searching should bring results, no matter where you live

American size:
AWG18 for everything except fans, front-panel-things, USB
AWG26 for everything which is not covered by AWG18

European equivalents (if you want to search in Europe):
AWG18 = 0,75mm² wire
AWG26 = 0,14mm² wire

Thanks Nils,

Am the one who ask you via email today

I found what I need on the net, thanks for your help both

[rioja]

may i connect standard pins for fans to the wires that come with standard 4-pin power molex, for example psu wires?
and then plug these wires with pins into the standard fan housing?



i doubt becoz psu wires are quite thick and fan connectors designed for thin wires
or in other words what awg is compatible with fans connectors?

[NFC]

As Nils said, 26 should work.

[rioja]

well, problem is that i have already wires, these ones that come with laing original pump



now i need to change this molex with 3-pin fan connector.
will those pins from the post above work with this particular wires?

[MrNovi]

24 gauge speaker wire works extremely well for fans and other smaller items and is quite easy to find. That is what I normally use for these types of applications.

[NFC]

now i need to change this molex with 3-pin fan connector.
will those pins from the post above work with this particular wires?

Not a chance.

Unless you are really lucky/good...

[Huww]

Doesn't the molex on the ddc use the smaller of the two wires though? I could be mistaken, and I'm not on my desktop so I can't check.