Cable Sleeving Guide

[kwscore]

You Know Stuff frome MDPC-X always looks soo fresh

[LittleDevil]

Guys, can I ask you where are you ordering those sleevings, are there any online shops in Germany?

Kind Regards

[mav2000]

Ohh u lucky guy...ure right next door to nils...If i was there I would get a whole TJ 07 mod from him.

search for mdpc and u will get your answer

[meo95]

This heatshrink uv reactive?
http://en.mdpc-x.com/mdpc-sleeve/hea...small-blue.htm

[kwscore]

[3dchipset]

This heatshrink uv reactive?
http://en.mdpc-x.com/mdpc-sleeve/hea...small-blue.htm

It's really not. Under a UV light it turns sorta black / dark purple.

[dualbrain]

UV-heatshrink is bad heatshrink when it comes to physical properties. At least this is my personal experience

[H2O]

[PropherCR]

Hi everyone!

As you can se i'm new to the forum, and I wanted to ask a few things since i'm building my new rig. I have already modded (if it can be called that way) my Cosmos S awaiting for my new components. So here are the questions:

1) Should i go air or liquid?
2) If liquid single or dual loop?
3) I'm tempted to void my PSU warranty and try to make it look like the masterworks i've seen here, should I do it?
4) Of course I want the MDPC-X world famous sleeve to do a single braid in all the PSU cables, This one is for DualBrain i Think... Can the sleeve be sent to lets say... Costa Rica?

I think that all for now, i wanna thank all for their answers.

PD. Forgive my lame english, where I live we speak spanish so i dont have a lot of practice.

[Dyn0miteMat]

Might wanna start a new thread, but I'll answer anyway

1: Upto you, mostly budget, if you want/need the better temps (due to noise issues or wantin to oc) go for it. If you just want something cheap & effective go with air
2: Single most likely
3: If i could do my psu again, I'd just buy extensions for all the cables I needed for my psu and sleeve those:
-Cheaper (less sleeve), although price of the extension themselves might make that up
-Easier to sleeve
-Gives you time to sleeve (won't have to hurry up so you can use your rig, can sleeve the extension and still use your pc)
-Won't void your warrenty
-Don't have to worry about re-sale value of your psu decreasing (in case someone doesn't like the sleeving colors)
-Don't have to worry about re-sleeving your next psu

Just My opinion, save yourself the hassle and use extensions

4: I wouldn't doubt it could be sent there, I know they ship from germany to us/can so why not if you pay shipping?

[geort45]

Surely MDPC-X would send to Costa Rica, I've ordered once and I'm from Mexico City . I'd just recommend you to really plan in advance the lengths of sleeving and heatshrink you'll need, and add some extra if possible. Shipping from Germany isn't exactly cheap so make the most from your order

[meo95]

It's really not. Under a UV light it turns sorta black / dark purple.

UV-heatshrink is bad heatshrink when it comes to physical properties. At least this is my personal experience

thank u

[PropherCR]

Ok thank all for the answers =P the WC or air thing was just to hear some advices. As for the extensions my case came with two: the 8 pin CPU and the 24 pin, the extension thing never came to my mind untill you said it (lol) so thanks for the advice. I think that with the extensions I have I only need 6 x 6+2 pin PCI-E extensions so here is another question: How much sleeve and heatshrink will I need to sleeve the extensions (8 pin CPU, 24 pin mobo and the 6 pci-e), 10 fans, the sata cables (6) and the front panel cables (like 10)?

I want to apologize for my ultra noob questions... but I'm an ultra noob at this kind of things. =)

[Dyn0miteMat]

I bought the sleeving 'kit' from mdpc that has all the black heatshrink/sleeving you could need for a power supply, then I got 10meters of red sleeving for accents (red/black), I sleeved all of my hx1000 (with the exception of a few 4 pin cables and such I don't need) AND did extensions for my 24-pin and three 8-pins and I still have some left over.

Might just want to do a rough estimate, say your extensions are 12"
24pin + 8pinx6 + 10x24 (just rough est. for fans if they were 24" each), + front say 5*24
Is 693" of sleeving so say 700" to feet is: 58.3' which is about 17.8 meters
Then plus heatshrink & sata cable sleeving.
Since you have to buy in 10meter lengths, if you want to do two colors get one [10 meter] section of each, plus heatshrink and sata sleeving/shrink

[8times0]

ok ppl tell me what do you think of my work on my jack 6.5mm cables.

[PropherCR]

ok ppl tell me what do you think of my work on my jack 6.5mm cables.

Awesome! love that gray sleeve... too bad it doesnt match my case/system color

[XpLod-]

Fantastic work on those cables...

Starting my first sleeving work...

[PropherCR]

I bought the sleeving 'kit' from mdpc that has all the black heatshrink/sleeving you could need for a power supply, then I got 10meters of red sleeving for accents (red/black), I sleeved all of my hx1000 (with the exception of a few 4 pin cables and such I don't need) AND did extensions for my 24-pin and three 8-pins and I still have some left over.

Might just want to do a rough estimate, say your extensions are 12"
24pin + 8pinx6 + 10x24 (just rough est. for fans if they were 24" each), + front say 5*24
Is 693" of sleeving so say 700" to feet is: 58.3' which is about 17.8 meters
Then plus heatshrink & sata cable sleeving.
Since you have to buy in 10meter lengths, if you want to do two colors get one [10 meter] section of each, plus heatshrink and sata sleeving/shrink

Dam i was going to do that color scheme now i will have to think a new one. Overall the price w/o the shipping for the stuff at MDPC-X is like 45 euro and with the shipping i think it will be more than half of my paycheck but its worth every single penny

[Dyn0miteMat]

Ah crap, I didn't factor in the sleeving for the 8 pin extensions right. I did 8pins x 6extensions instead of 8 x 6 x 12 (length of each wire)

Comes out to about 102' or 31meters. I thought it sounded a bit low before haha

Trust me, I sold off my 4870x2 a month or so ago and every penny that i got for that went into sleeving. Yea it's quite the investment (which is why I said to go with extensions haha) but you'll love it.

[PropherCR]

So its 31 meters of small sleeve + 3 meters of small heatsrhink + i believe 5 meters of sata sleeve + 70cm of sata heatshrink... i wanted to do 3:1 black/red theme but the GPUs kind of screw it all... oh well nothing can be perfect =P

[Dyn0miteMat]

Yeah, it wouldn't hurt to buy extra though, I did my psu and had plenty left over, and loved it soo much I ended up sleeving my keyboard, mouse, headset, usb cables, etc...

[PropherCR]

Wow, i think i'll end up sleeving my cats anyway i'll buy the sleeve as soon as i can. So far thank you Dyn0miteMat for helping me out

[X TO THA Z]

Hey guys, i'm new to the forums and i've got a question... Last night, I ordered a system sleeving kit from frozen CPU... I was wondering if it was going to be enough for my WHOLE PSU! The 4 pin, 6 pins, 8 pin, 24 pin, ect ect. Also, is this a single sleeve kit? like braiding or is it just around all the wires mumbo jumbo... I would love a response! Below is the link

http://www.frozencpu.com/products/89...tl=g35c183s992

^^^

Thanks guys!

This is what'll be sleeved

2x 6 Pin Single (plan on it atleast)
1x 8 Pin Single
1x 24 Pin Single
2x Sata Cable
1x Sata Power Cable (Possibly...)
Fans are already sleeved...

Depending on what i have, i might just sleeve what you can actually see. Other than that, thats pretty much it! :]

[Dyn0miteMat]

I got a kit off of frozencpu a few years ago (I don't think they have mono-sleeving kits) and it sucked, it looks alright I guess once its all done, but its fun trying to get the sleeving over 1 wire/pin let alone 24 at once haha

[PropherCR]

I was going to buy one of that kits, looked good on the pictures, but i preferred to ask the pros first rather than pay and regret after the job its done...