Cable Sleeving Guide

[Xien16]

[Pupo]

any pictures of whole cable and leds on?

[Xien16]

There is no cable on this one - just:



pics of whole strip soon

[shawnoen]

How did you expose the LEDs after sleeving? With a knife or just flame?

Any pics of connector you added to end?

Curious how to do this as I just ditched cathode tubes for new build in favor of surface mount LED strips from Oznium.

http://www.oznium.com/led-ribbon

[Xien16]

Problem with all those (flexible) strips out there:
Too wide, often nor black, sometimes "bad" LEDs (or often not the color you want) and they are flexible

That are the points why I created my own layout (didn't produce them at home ):



The problem now is that they also look amazing without sleeve...

[turtletrax]

That is deadly Xien16

I would love some pics of those LEDs on


Here is my HX 1000 I am working on to brush up. Then on to my AX-1200 for my Murdermod.

[Xien16]

That is deadly Xien16

I would love some pics of those LEDs on

[3dchipset]

They may/maynot be needed. They are there to reduce signal noise (whine) from your PSU when plugged into your video card.

Some of my current systems have this whine--my guess is that most people do not notice it over their fans, but in my media center PC with a Corsair 620HX and a low profile 9800GT it is bad. I used to think it was the BDROM but after unplugging it I realized what it was.

After listening for it in my other PCs I noticed quite a few have it--but the sound of hard drives, fans (even low RPM ones) combined with the use of headphones covers it up.

Either way, they are not critical to your operation--only if you are a silent junky like myself. =)

I want to experiment by moving them closer to the PSU to make them work, or figure out a nice way of including them in the sleeve.

The capacitor on the cable isn't what makes your video card whine. It's the cap's on the actual video card. If your video card is whining, I would suggest to RMA it and get a new one. Certain "brands" used to suffer from the whine. If you do a search in these forums as well as [H] you'll see it's the video card and not the powersupply. The only time you get a whine from the powersupply is if the powersupply is bad. Corsair had a bunch of bad PSU's in their AX1200 line. They found the problem and corrected it in their Q&A department.

[meo95]

Produced in the cottage on rainy nights.

[joescastle]

WoW!! What beauty in this sleeving. I just ordered from MDPC and can not wait to get my package... I do have a question though. Is there any reference to know what cable color goes back into the correct slot in the connector after you have pulled them all out, or what technique is the best way to go about this without confusion? I am sorry if this question has been asked, but this is a very long thread and pics are eye openers....

Thanks

//joescastle
AKA Viper

[LennyRhys]

Just got my Toughpower 775W which I was planning to sleeve, but then I found this...



I can get rid of the ferrite ring, whatever it does, (there's one on all four of the PCIE modular cables), or I can buy/make new PCIE cables. Meh...

[shawnoen]

You can cut the shrink off the ferrite ring and tap with a hammer and it will shatter.

Done it on every Corsair I've owned and no issues.

[Xien16]

[TheBreezyBB]

I'm New Here, and also a noob when it comes to cable sleeving. With that said, i can't buy from MDPC-X since i don't have a paypal account ( long story short it's a problem with my bank statements ) and I was looking through amazon and i found these are they any good?! Thanks in Advance.

Amazon link

[DTR]

... I do have a question though. Is there any reference to know what cable color goes back into the correct slot in the connector after you have pulled them all out, or what technique is the best way to go about this without confusion? ....

Thanks

//joescastle
AKA Viper

There is a photo/template for what colour goes where (maybe on the first page) but I found works for me (since I'm not doing this all the time) is to do them one at a time - that way its easy to just plug them back into the last / only open slot. This makes sense also because if you are not making your own custom length cable, and just resleeving an exitsting cable - each lead is NOT the exact same length and for a *perfect* fit of the sleeving - you need to measure each cable lead and cut the sleeving for that exact one - millimeters make a difference for that *perfect* sleeving job.

Or you can just make your own guide - draw a diagram of what colour came out of which pin slot - or take a picture before you start.

Edit: Pinout diagram in this guide => http://www.overclock.net/other-hardw...iscussion.html

[DTR]

I'm New Here, and also a noob when it comes to cable sleeving. With that said, i can't buy from MDPC-X since i don't have a paypal account ( long story short it's a problem with my bank statements ) and I was looking through amazon and i found these are they any good?! Thanks in Advance.

Amazon link

Quick answer as I'm here - my 2c - if you are doing a PSU, and you want it to look like the photos here...then you want to sleeve every lead (24 in a main power cord to the motherboard) - that means you need 1/8" which THAT KIT does NOT have enough of. Plus it looks like it has 3/4" or other which you will never use. So, unless you want to buy like 10 of those kits to get enough 1/8" sleeving, its not a good deal for what (I believe) you want to do.

Short and sweet answer, but I'm sure my better's here will have even greater answers for you.

[TheBreezyBB]

Quick answer as I'm here - my 2c - if you are doing a PSU, and you want it to look like the photos here...then you want to sleeve every lead (24 in a main power cord to the motherboard) - that means you need 1/8" which THAT KIT does NOT have enough of. Plus it looks like it has 3/4" or other which you will never use. So, unless you want to buy like 10 of those kits to get enough 1/8" sleeving, its not a good deal for what (I believe) you want to do.

Short and sweet answer, but I'm sure my better's here will have even greater answers for you.

Thank you for the Quick response.
So, unless I buy 10 of these ones i won't have enough 1/8" cable to the whole PSU. But, what if I'm using a modular PSU and i don't be using that many cables anyway from it anyway ( Silverstone ST1000W ) how many of these would be enough. if it's too expensive I'll ask a friend of mine to get me the sleeving tools from MDPC-X.

[DTR]

Thank you for the Quick response.
So, unless I buy 10 of these ones i won't have enough 1/8" cable to the whole PSU. But, what if I'm using a modular PSU and i don't be using that many cables anyway from it anyway ( Silverstone ST1000W ) how many of these would be enough. if it's too expensive I'll ask a friend of mine to get me the sleeving tools from MDPC-X.

Here is the math:

If your modular PSU has a 10" ATX 24 pin power cord (to the motherboard) - you need - 24 (leads) x 10" (each lead) = 240" of 1/8" sleeving - just for the power cord.

Now, that's exact so, factor in 10% for errors or waste, so add another 24", so you ~22 feet of 1/8" sleeving.

If you want to also do your PCI-E power connector, lets say you have a GTX460 - so that's 2 x 6pin x 10" (length of video cable), so that another 120" or 10 feet more - don't forget errors or waste so +10% = 11ft

Grand total is 33 ft of 1/8" sleeving and you haven't done the 8 pin motherboard connector or any HD / DVD drives.


Hope that helps.


PS. I don't know exactly how much 1/8" sleeving is in that kit - so I was just making a point by saying you needed 10 kits. The kit says 30ft of sleeving is included but the picture shows 4 different sizes so that's only 7.5ft per size IF is evenly distributed. I didn't see them specify what exactly is included, but based on only that observation - you'ed need 5 of those kits. AND that's ASSUMING 1/8" is actually part of that kit.


PPS. You mentions sleeving tools - that's a whole other ball game. Some people use bent staples, but the ATX pin tools makes life soooo much easier - its really your call.

PPPS. lol...just for reference, here is a photo of what your 24 pin ATX power cord should look something like (this is an extention cable with a 8 pin extention cable in the photo as well http://www.newegg.ca/Product/ImageGa...20Model%20PP04

[TheBreezyBB]

Here is the math:

If your modular PSU has a 10" ATX 24 pin power cord (to the motherboard) - you need - 24 (leads) x 10" (each lead) = 240" of 1/8" sleeving - just for the power cord.

Now, that's exact so, factor in 10% for errors or waste, so add another 24", so you ~22 feet of 1/8" sleeving.

If you want to also do your PCI-E power connector, lets say you have a GTX460 - so that's 2 x 6pin x 10" (length of video cable), so that another 120" or 10 feet more - don't forget errors or waste so +10% = 11ft

Grand total is 33 ft of 1/8" sleeving and you haven't done the 8 pin motherboard connector or any HD / DVD drives.


Hope that helps.


PS. I don't know exactly how much 1/8" sleeving is in that kit - so I was just making a point by saying you needed 10 kits. The kit says 30ft of sleeving is included but the picture shows 4 different sizes so that's only 7.5ft per size IF is evenly distributed. I didn't see them specify what exactly is included, but based on only that observation - you'ed need 5 of those kits. AND that's ASSUMING 1/8" is actually part of that kit.


PPS. You mentions sleeving tools - that's a whole other ball game. Some people use bent staples, but the ATX pin tools makes life soooo much easier - its really your call.

PPPS. lol...just for reference, here is a photo of what your 24 pin ATX power cord should look something like (this is an extention cable with a 8 pin extention cable in the photo as well http://www.newegg.ca/Product/ImageGa...20Model%20PP04

That's really good, you helped me a lot with this info. It's not stated how much 1/8" cable is included in this that's why I asked here. and about the tool kit My friend has the MDPC-X kit I'll be using that for sure.

EDIT: I checked how long is the included 1/8" cable is and i found out it was 10' , which is not nearly enough for anything and the rest of the cables sleeving included is really of no use to me right now. I've decided i'll ask my friend to order me around 40 meters for a bunch of different colors and Heatshrinks of course to go with that. Thanks for your help really appreciated.

[Xien16]

Why don't you just alk your fried to buy it for you from MDPC-X???



Don't even start with bad quality ... I also did that nistake some years ago ...

[TheBreezyBB]

Why don't you just alk your fried to buy it for you from MDPC-X???

Don't even start with bad quality ... I also did that nistake some years ago ...

That's what I'm going to do. It's a lot easier to get what i want from MDPC-X then buying these kits from Amazon.com, and also a lot cheaper. 2-3 weeks and the sleeving should start!! Thanks for your help.

[Xien16]

Sorry - didn't read the Edit

[illidan]

Janik again those perfect renders

[Kingcarcas]

has anyone tried to sleeve a DVI cable??

???

[wiretap]

^---Monoprice sells pre-sleeved cables. Since the cables are black to begin with, they look pretty good. I have a few of their sleeved DVI and HDMI cables. Otherwise, doing it yourself would be a biatch because you'd have to redo the connectors.