Liradon

It's not thick carpet.. you can hear a good *THUD*, meaning there's wood closely underneath it.

Hi guys Yesterday, the most tragic accident happened. A few weeks ago, I bought these Bitfenix alchemy connect leds and installed them in my case. They have an adhesive side on them so I put 2 on the top and 1 on the bottom on the inside of my case. Now, these leds become quiet hot, and yesterday, one of the top leds fell down, with the naked back end (which is not secured in any way, so it can short out anything) straight onto my GPU. A €300 ($400) Asus HD 7950 DCU2 TOP. My screen instantly turned white, I couldn't do anything. After a forced reboot of my system, my screen had 2 blue rectangles running across my screen and they would not go away. Now, I think my mobo's not dead because I can go into my bios etc, but I do think my boot SSD is dead. Booting windows is impossible. I hope my CPU is ok, but I have no idea how to test this. but now to the real point of this post : Bitfenix should cover this. It's totally bitfenix's fault. The stuff they sell should be safe to put in your PC. There's no reference on the packaging that says it can harm your PC in any way. First of all: their adhesive tape on the leds is way to weak. It loosens up when it gets heated by its own led lights. Secondly; every led strip should come with a plastic cap or something to make sure nothing touches the end of your led strip, thus shorting your entire system. Thank you Bitfenix for ruining my night. What do you guys think I should do? What CAN I do?

So do I I bought paracord from Ebay (I did buy it from a retail seller, TheBushCraftStore.co.uk) Heatshrink from MDPC (because it has a 4:1 ratio, best on the market) and I use homemade toolslike staples and stuff to extract terminals from the connector. Don't waste too much money on sleeving tools. Only spend money on stuff like custom wire, sleeving and heatshrink.

I like them both. But for some reason, I prefer heatshrinkless. Also, if you are a beginner and you want a clean, sleek look, you should consider going heatshrinkless. It's not easy to all the heatshrink perfectly lined up. One little mistake and it all looks like crap (to me).

Could write a guide for you if you like .

I use staples to extract the PCI-e pins. You can use industrial staples (the thick ones), but since I don't have these, I just pinch off 2 staples (still glued together) and use this as one industrial staple. Don't think anyone would be interested in my guides. Youtube is already fulll of people with guides (good ones and bad ones), probably shouldn't add more videos to it.

I don't use any of these tools. I made them myself . I remove PCI-e pins with staplers and molex pins with the smallest tube of an old radio antenna. Works like a charm.

Yes, this does void your warranty. Normally, one of the screws should be covered with a little sticker which says : warranty voided if removed or damaged. The wires are soldered to the little circuitboard inside your PSU. You can not take these wires off. I suppose you mean this? It's hard to do this, but it's possible . I'd reccomand making cable extensions. Make 6pin extensions if you only need 6 pins, 8pin extensions if you need 8 pins, obviously . That's the neatest solution. Totally correct it's very satisfying to see your results. Wouldn't say it's cheaper, but it looks way better.

It's not difficult. Just unscrew the 4 screws that keep your cover plate in place and take it of but be careful, there might be a cable connected to your cover plate or something. Just unplug this No, you should definetely NOT do this. If you don't secure both sides, the not secured end will crawl up and will mess up the looks of your sleeving. Definetely secure both sides. You don't really need a multimeter to test if the cables are correct. If you pay close attention, you will not missplace the cables. You need a multimeter to make sure the cables are working. But that should not be a problem. Not quiet sure about this, but I think they will fit . They should. Google it up

Just finished my cable extensions for my latest build red-black theme.

I'm not sure what to vote for! I love both types of sleeving and both with and without heatshrink. So I just voted for the type of sleeving I used for cable extentions I made myself for my rig

get around 50ft in total to 25 of each

You going to use heatshrink? I also did my first sleeving job with paracord an no heatshrink. It's the most difficult way of sleeving in my opinion, paracord is harder than MDPC and heatshrinkles is harder, but it turned out fine! So don't worry, you'll do great . A tip, make sure your hands aren't sweaty because you need some grip.

Ah, hehe, no, that's only if you want to make cable extensions

Yeh, well, ok, I guess.. But give the guy some space to breathe He's got a good topic going on, he'll check it when he's got the time.