Cable Sleeving Guide

[MINIz guy]

What's this I see?







I only ordered purple sleeving. Nils went ahead and sent me some white, black and yellow samples! I can't wait to get this stuff on my TX750. Only downside is that I'm going away for a week so I can't progress further on my build.

[guilleguillaume]

DualBrain ¿Is it possible to show us a colour scheme between Purple and Aquamarine Blue together? I'm thinking about mixing those colours but I'm not really sure about how they look together and it's difficult to me to imagine it having them on different photos.

Maybe it doesn't match so well but I want to Know if Blue will match perfectly with purple without being weird. If not maybe some of you can recommend me wich colour can I mix with it to make a good colour scheme with this motherboard:
http://www.pccomponentes.com/fotos/p...socket_am3.jpg

This is going to be my first try with Mdpc-X Sleeving ^^

[Polizei]

I would do mostly black with an accent color of that aquamarine blue.

[3dchipset]

That "purple" looks really red on my monitor... The previous poster, Xien looks more purple then the one posted above! :-p

[anachlores]

ditto, I think the WB is way off...

[Polizei]

No, the most recent pictures are really red. It's not your monitor, it's the guy's lighting.

[mcp]

[3dchipset]

Can we safely assume it's not purple but more "violet"? Purple is far more purple. lol... Hard to explain.

[H2O]

It depends. As you can see, the color of the sleeve is greatly influenced by lighting and white balance. I would trust Nils', Janik's (Xien), and Paul's photographs of the purple sleeve as they are excellent photographers, so I believe the color is most accurately represented in their photographs. If you take a look on the previous page, the sleeve is a more purple color under normal light, but appears more magenta to berry colored under studio lighting.

Maybe "Magenta" or "Berry" would fit a little better, but I think Purple is fine.

[Xien16]

If you don't trust the shots on MDPC-X
-> buy it and see that they are correct
-> buy it, see that your screen is calibrated wrong and see that they are correct

Or just trust this rose

[dualbrain]

Just believe the photos I shot and present. What I do is what you see in reality with your eyes. I know how important it is, therefore I worked hard on it. Only a drastically wrong-calibrated monitor might show something extremely different than reality shows. But I tested it on a hardware-calibrated (in my design-agency) monitor, on 5 different office-monitors and also on a cheap TV. All showed what you see in reality. With my photos of course.

A camera "wants" to see red, so almost nobody will be able to photograph, except if he really experiments a lot. You will think that your cam is garbage, even if you have a 5.000 $ camera

Reality = my pictures.


Guillaume: Purple+GrandBleu is the absolute killer. It's beauty at it's best. Of course Black+Purple is godlike, but that's to be expected when a color is developed

[3dchipset]

I'm not saying it's wrong. I'm saying their is a distinct difference between violet and purple. Xien16, I got some of the purple sleeving from Nils. To me purple is purple. :-p
For example. Check this photo out below:
http://www.fashionchat.info/images/C...ALE-Violet.jpg

The top right is purple. The top left is violet.

Even the wire from Performance PC's. This is what purple looks to me.
http://www.performance-pcs.com/catal...Wire_t_LRG.jpg

The sleeve is awesome, I know I just ordered 30 meters of it. I'm saying with the naked eye it looks more violet then straight up purple. :-p

[dualbrain]

It'S easy
There is an institution which defines colors: It's RAL.
If you check out an official RAL-chart and match it with the color of my photo, you will see a magic word in the name for this tone: "Purple".
http://www.ralcolor.com/

What people often confuse is that they actually mean "Lilac" or "violet", but that'S normal for people who don't work with color every day

I can't say more than "I know exactly what I do"
I'm not playing with words, I only use facts.

[Xien16]

We had exacly this discussion some posts ago...

For me nearly all mixtures of blue and red (with more red) are pink - so where is the problem...
And Nils - your orange isn't orange at all!!! This and nothing else is 100% orange: http://www.harvestwizard.com/bloodoranges1r.jpg

So if these are your biggest problems at the moment you are really happy guys (expect for Nils - it is one of his biggest problems at the moment )

[dualbrain]

lol Janik, it was in another forum
But I guess it needs to happen everywhere. But it's good that there is the RAL definition for colors, because there is no room for interpretation

[NFC]

lol Janik, it was in another forum
But I guess it needs to happen everywhere. But it's good that there is the RAL definition for colors, because there is no room for interpretation

Are you saying your sleeving matches RAL 4006?

Your photos are amazing--unbelievable is a more appropriate term--and I purchased a decent length of your purple sleeving.

One thing that gets me though is the pretentiousness of art directors and teachers in demanding that their students define pink as some abstract mixture of primary colors or using terms like pale, moderate blue. Congratulations on being technically correct but everyone knows what hot pink or aquamarine looks like so why not just use that?

And your rose is confusing, and I am guessing that is your point--but when someone is confused about the color of your sleeving it's not very nice to make a comparison to red then post a picture (gorgeous, btw) of a purple rose. I am sure roses can be purple, orange, or zebra striped but it is hard to argue that a rose is not synonymous with RED. Should I calibrate my monitor so your purple rose looks red? What exactly is your point?

Sorry to get heated up about this--I greatly respect the work of everyone affiliated with MDPC-X and I spend many hours in awe at your gorgeous photos. I also understand the rebound from people misplacing the wrong color definition to your product and correcting you. It just frustrates me that you can't say the color is close to:

a200a0
C45 M98 Y0 K0
162 ,0, 160
RAL4006
cc00cc

[dualbrain]

I didn't show a rose? I am innocent!

NFC: Nice that you found a match It meets what other people found out too. Combined with my promise of color-accuracy, I guess the case is solved. Of course there is room for even finer definitions, based on RAL Design, but based on RAL classic, you hit it well

I just like to see people discussing about facts. Therefore I don't go into watercooling etc. discussions, because I simply don't know facts. I only speak when I know something for sure Forums are a place of huge confusion, because of "guessing", "thinking" (sometimes intentional badmouthing) and of course photos with no care if they represent reality or not

[NFC]

Yes, you are innocent of public rose display. MULTIQUOTE FAIL on my part.

[dualbrain]

That would have been n00bish from me :hug: Janik

[NFC]

BTW, what is a good technique for cutting heat shrink into perfectly even pieces? Even using surgical scissors mine come out at odd lengths.

[3dchipset]

WOW! Didn't think it would spark such chaos... Just speaking from my visual of holding the sleeve in my hand. I just go by what I interpret the color purple. It wasn't meant as a slam or personal jab. I like the color of the actual sleeve. Already have plans for what I want to use it for. :-)

[3dchipset]

BTW, what is a good technique for cutting heat shrink into perfectly even pieces? Even using surgical scissors mine come out at odd lengths.

This is what I've been experimenting...

Get a wooden cutting board. (pretty cheap, find them in the home cooking aisles. lol) and take a ruler and make 2 perfect lines. Then line up your heatshrink and make one cut with a sharp razor blade then line it up to the other line and make another cut. Keep doing that and you'll have pieces identical to each other. :-)

[Midnite8]

How do you guys get the heatshrink to be the same length? Measuring? Also, I am having trouble with the Sata Power Cables, how do I removed the little piece in the lower left in the picture?

[MINIz guy]

My pictures show it as more red than it actually is. Part of that is WB on my camera, the other part is halogen lighting making it a bit more red than it actually is.

[3dchipset]

I tried taking a picture of the purple sleeve and it comes up more red color than anything. I love the purple sleeve though (already got a color combination I'm going with). I still have problems stretching it. I just can't seem to stretch it like Crysis.