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So i just recently built my first computer and i am starting to clean up the cabling as much as possible and i want to buy some sleeved extensions for the front panel connectors from CableMod but i want to use a usb extender since i would have to buy 3 front panel cables as opposed to the one usb extender. I wanted to know if anyone else has used a usb 2.0 extender for the same purpose and since there will be exposed pins on the extender i was thinking of covering them with hot glue or something so that they do not make contact with the case or any other metals. Do you think this will work?

Which cable sleeve material would you recommend for best looks in a PC a plastic type or paracord?

Would you be interested in bringing color into your AIO experience?

Hey guys, I've recently started beefing up the internal appearance of my computer. My goal is to have every single cable inside that case sleeved. So far the SATA-power cables, the front pwr, reset and HDD cables and the HD-Audio-cable are sleeved. The GPU-, CPU- and 24PIN-power cables are next. I've also found sleeving for the SATA-Data-cables, so they are nearly done, as well. However, there is one problem: the internal USB 3.0- cables running from my front I/O to the mainboard. I have a Corsair 400C with two USB 3.0 connectors on one end and the thick 20-pin-connector on the other. As of now I haven't found a way to get sleeving around those cables. Another problem is the thickness of the I/O-side. They are not regular USB-terminals, but have a thick part to it (no idea how to explain that better in english, sry), so a screw can go through them. The foto (link) shows a similar product. Mine only has the two terminals separate with two screwholes each: Picture I've cut a spare cable that was laying around in half to see if I can solder that stuff together again. It looks pretty complicated. Do you guys have an idea how I can tackle this challenge? Best regards August

Hi all, So I have been working on a project with the goal to build my computer into my desk. Everything was going well, I created my 24-pin and 8-pin cables for the motherboard and had the pc posting using internal graphics, and a sata power cable (OEM) for the ssd and hdd. I then create a 6-pin, 8-pin, and two sata power cables for powering the graphics card, ssd, and hdd respectively. Since the graphics card is mounted beside the motherboard I have a PCI-E riser cable to make that connection. Anyway, I now have all my cables plugged in and the pc should boot right? Sadly no, I have no power button for this build yet so I press the power button on the motherboard its self. First press the led numbers on the board shows the number 00 for maybe half a second before the pc turns off, second press and nothing happens, no led light up not even for a second. I tried a few more times to see what would happen and most of the time absolutely nothing happens but maybe 1 in every 7 presses the 00 will show up for no more then a second before turning off. Knowing that the problem must be due to one of my newer custom cables I disconnected the graphics card and I went back to a power sata that came with my motherboard. Having had that exact set up booting previously I hoped this would boot, but nope. Next I removed my 24-pin and 8-pin cables from the motherboard and plugged in the OEM cables, still same problem no signs of booting most the time, then occasionally 00 will show for a second before turning off. My first thought is that I must have short circuited the motherboard some how, but I don't see how I could have done that since I tested 24 and 8 pins previously and they worked with no problem. I only plugged new cables into the drives and the graphics card, could a faulty cable not plugged into the motherboard cause the motherboard to short? That wouldn't make sense to me, but hey that's why I'm here, I don't know whats happening. I want to keep diagnosing this problem, but I don't want to start swapping components if I have faulty cables since that would cause me to destroy even more hardware. What I am currently thinking is to buy a power supply tester and test each cable. I'm assuming something must be wrong with one of them which would have caused this. Once all the faulty cables are found I'll fix them, and try to boot with the same hardware but with fixed cables. If the pc still doesn't boot, and I am confident in my cables, I can start swapping out some components until I find the faulty component. I guess at which point I will have to replace whatever I destroyed (which must be the motherboard if anything right?). The power supply is a 750 so power shouldn't be a problem, but none of the components should be an issue as this project is using all old hardware that all use to run together with no issue, all I was doing was mounting everything to some wood and creating some custom length cables. Basically, I'm wondering if any of you guys have an idea of what might have caused a lasting issue that even after going back to OEM cables the pc won't boot. Do you have an suggestions on how to correctly diagnose the issue? Do you think my plan of testing the cables and then trying new hardware is a smart approach or would you suggest something different? Any input is greatly appreciated, Michael

So today I revieved the Cablemod sleeved cables that I ordered last week. Now I took a closer look at them, and I want to check that this is how the cables are supposed to look, and not a defect. In the first picture there are some cords missing in the connector, this is a molex cable. The second is a PCI-E cable and has to cords in the same place on the connector, but on spot in the connector is empty. Any help would be appreciated!

I have been thinking about a desk build for quite a while and now I am actually doing it. For this build I needed custom length cables and since I wasn't willing to pay the expensive prices found online, I decided to sleeve the cables myself. Guess what I learned, sleeving is still hella expensive even doing it yourself. Anyway I have completed my 24pin cable and wanted to know how to confirm I did everything correctly and I have a few questions as well. Below are three pictures of my cable, the front, back and a single wire not plugged into the connector. In the 24pin I skipped one wire on the underside, this leads right into the first question. Are there diagrams somewhere to show you how to wire up each type of cable? In my build I have a graphics card which requires a 6pin and an 8pin, motherboard 24pin and 8pin, hdd and ssd which both require sata power, and a fan power board which requires molex. 6 and 8pins seem quite straight forward to me as they both require to be filled with wires. However for the sata power and molex I noticed that they are missing 1 and 2 wires receptively. After searching around online a while I haven't been able to find any diagrams of how to wire up the sata and molex and was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction. Secondly, once every cable is completed how can I confirm everything works, can I use a multi meter to make sure their is voltage running through correctly? (sorry if that's a dumb question I'm new to electronics). I was reading earlier that a mess up in the cable can cause permanent damage to components (for obvious reasons) and I really don't want that to happen so I'm trying to be as careful as possible. Thanks for any help !

I tore my old system apart yesterday to clean out all out the dust balls. I though maybe my 5 year old H60 was end of life as well. Long story short and a $300 trip to Microcenter later, I have a new H100i V2 and a NZXT H440. Now I have a finishing touch problem. The old cabling for my PSU is red and black and it doesn't go with the new white case. The MB always had the blue on it but it was covered up by poor wire management in the old system. So I have a Semi modular EVGA SuperNOVA NEX750B. I know I am going to have to do some custom sleeving with the 24 pin but I have plenty of leads on the PSU for Extra Video card leads and CUP 8 Pin leads. Question What is everyone thoughts about buying a cable set just to disassemble for the presleeved cables and swap out the cables one by one? https://cablemod.com/product/cablemod-modflex-sleeved-wires-black-16-inch-4-pack/ This product on the cablemod site made me think of it. I can seem to buy them anywhere.

I know this topic has got to be beaten to death by now, but I know we have some serious pros in here who can help me get some cables for my new PC. So, I would like to have zero unplugged/extra connections. I am unsure of how many cables I would need and how long to have them made. I am ordering from CableMod. So is there a typical length that works pretty well? and how can I plug everything in without having extra unplugged connections. My RM100i has so many unplugged connections with the default wiring. Here is what I am working with that requires power: Case: Corsair 600c Inverse Mobo: Asus x99pro SSD: SAMSUNG 850 Pro GPU: Nvidia 1080fe So I shouldn't have much extra cables, but do people sleeve the cables that connect components to the mother board? Thanks Linus Fam

So i bought a corsair rmi 650 psu, i want to custom sleeve it but cant get any of the pins out i bought some tools and tested them on both this and a thermaltake tr2 500w psu, on the thermaltake they worked just fine and could take out the pins with ease, but for some reason i could not take any of the corsair pins out. i ended up breaking the pin removal tool in the process as well >.> is there possibly something different with rmi psu cable that i am not seeing? thanks for the help in advance!

Hello everyone this is my first time doing any sort of mod and I wanted to share it with you guys and gals on the forum. I took my brand new RX 480 and painted it white so that it would fit in better with my white NZXT 320. I also painted the expansion slot covers and my SSD white. Overall I am happy with how things turned out even though there were a few things that I wish had gone differently. In the near future, hopefully, I want to switch out all the cables for custom sleeved white ones. And in the not so near future I want to try my hand at getting a full custom water loop in this wonderful case. I will reply to this post in the future as I continue to make updates. Let me know what you think about the paint job. The best part is this is one of the very first white RX 480s if not the first. Update: I tried my hand at sleeving cables today using paracord and no heat shrink. And just like the painting, it was a nice learning experience that turned out fairly well, even if there are a lot of things I could have improved on. The PSU comes with a couple of the 6+2 pin connectors, one of which I had to turn into a single 6 pin, which proved to be a bit challenging to sleeve properly because the pins are larger than average leaving no room for the sleeving to fit inside the connector. I had to pull the sleeving back which makes it look a bit wonky when looking up close. I started on the 24 pin and it was actually kinda funny looking after I finished the first 12 wires because you could tell which was the first one by how bad it looked and how much I had improved by the last one. Needless to say I completely redid those first ones and it ended up looking pretty good. I have a cable comb on the 24pin which is helping keep the wires straight (they were tightly spiraled underneath the original sleeving) but because of the larger pins on the 6pin I couldn't fit a cable comb over that one, so for the time being I am just leaving the side panel off and shaping it by hand as needed with the help of a wire wrapped around it. I might go back and change the 24pin into a white and black sleeving but for now I will be keeping it all white.

Hi there I'm currently trying to find cable sleeving. As accent I want to sleeve two cables with a mint green color, though it seems that there are no sleeves available in the tone I want. Do you know a place where I can buy sleeves that roughly match this color? (Note that I live in Germany) Thank you.

Im getting a corsair HX750i psu and wandering for the cables. I only have two options for cable modding right? either have to get extensions which take a lot of space. Wont look as good? or i have to buy a full kit of sleeved cables ( only corsair or compatible?) Sleeved cables aren't sold separately ( apart for 24 pin or extensions) are extensions worth it or individually sleeved better? (extensions cant go straight to psu then to hardware? can it?

Hello, I'm pretty new at this but I am planing a custom sleeving my cables to improve upon the ascetics of my computer. I need to get some advice on weather I sleeve the original cables that came with the power supply, make my own extensions or If I should just just make entire new cables. I am willing to put the time in it takes to make the cables but I don't really want to buy a crimper to make my own cables. Any help would be appreciated.

Hi there, so i want to try sleeving my power supply cables. I have a modular power supply from Silverstone. I noticed that if i was to try to sleeve my PCI-E Cables, they have these large bulges within their heatshrink. Upon further inspection and testing on an unused cable, it looks like a battery is attached to two of the individual cables. This obviously poses a problem for sleeving the individual cables. My question is do I need this battery-like thing attached for it to work? Or can i remove it to move on with sleeving the rest of my cables. Thank you.

Hey, I wanted to write something more or less useful for other people as my first post. So I wrote this little how-to for wrapping a large cable with paracord. I have not yet seen anyone do this on a PSU, so maybe this idea might help other people. (Though it probably has already been done by someone.) I have a PSU with the infamous "ketchup & mustard" cables. My initial idea was to make new sleeved cables, however I need to do something about the 24-pin, since it is not modular and as the 24-pin is already fairly long i don't want to use extensions. Extensions also wouldn't cover the cable coming from the PSU in the bottom of the case. And after my first PSU arrived dead, and it's replacement broke within the first 3 months, I don't want to re-sleeve the 24-pin since this would void my remaining warranty in an obvious way. So I was looking for a non-invasive, reversable mod. If i don't want to sleeve the individual cables, I could still wrap the bundle of cables as a whole. In order to do this I used black Paracord 550 (Type III), but you could use a smaller type for a less thick and denser wrap, though it will be more work. I used a fairly simple wrapping technique, which creates an interesting spiraling pattern around the cable in a single color. There are other techniques which will yield different patterns, but as I said, i think this is one of the easiest knots, so that's what I used for this proof-of-concept. It took me about 3 episodes of suits and a tech showdown, or about 3 hours with some pauses to complete the wrapping. I used a piece of 25 meters to do this and was left with about 10 meters, but better to err on the side of caution. If you use a thinner diameter you will obviously need more than 15 meters. This is how it turned out: And how it looks inside of a case after installation: Caveats: This makes the cables stiffer, so they are harder to rout afterwards. This will make the already fairly large bundle even thicker, so make sure you have enough space to rout the cable later on. You don't want to pull the paracord to thigthly, but it shouldn't be loose either. Practice first to get a feeling of how to tie the knot consistently. If you also want to sleeve the other cables, use the same material and manufacturer. Products may vary from one vendor to another. So if you want to copy this mod, you basically only need a long piece of paracord (or whatever you want to use). I heated the end of the paracord with a lighter, to prevent it from fraying. I started at the end of the cable that is attached to the PSU. For this knot you will only need one end of the paracord, so i lay one end along the cable, so it will lie inside of the wrap later (I forgot to make a photo of this, but I hope it is clear what I mean ). With the other end start making knots. To do a knot you basically only need to twist the paracord once, pull it over the end of the cable and then tighten it, as shown in the picture. You obviously don't want to over-tighten the knot to the point were you'd crush the cables or pull them out of the connector, but it shouldn't be loose either. I usually pull in the direction opposite to the direction in which the paracord is running, so the knot (which will form the spiral) is nice and short. But don't worry, first your top two rows will never look right because the next rows are needed to keep these in position, and second you can always easily undo and redo the knot if it don't like it. Work slowly and be careful to tighten each row with a similar amount of force. Make sure the paracord is not twisted, this will show later and result in irregular knots! If you get the feeling that the rows are too far apart, don't pull harder on each knot, instead pull the knots you have already done down to the base in groups of 2-4 rows. The trickiest part to get right is the connector. Depending on how fast the cable is widening some rows might slip over those before, which will look crappy. I circumvented this problem by making two triangles out of cardboard which i kept place with tape. You don't need as much tape as I used. I removed the tape on the bottom after I wrapped up to the connector, so you can't see it. The cardboard will still stay in place. To end the wrap, I pulled the end of the paracord below the last few rows. This would have been easiest with a large needle, but I used the back of a knife to pull it through which worked fine too. Simply trim the excess and you are done. (also no photos, because I needed both of my hands to do this.) So tell me what you think of this idea! Do you like how it looks? Do you see any problems with this modification? Do you have suggestions for other types of wraps? I'll be redoing the wrapping sometime in the future as the black of the cable doesn't match neither the black nor the diameter of the sleeving i ordered for the other cables. But this will have to wait for at least 2 months.

Hey everyone so I have another popular modding item to bring to the table, CableMod’s new lineup of PET (plastic) sleeved cables. This goes over my first impressions of the product, and in-depth look at the wiring and materials. Note this set of sleeved cables was provided to me by CableMod as a gift and sample, so here is my thanks to them, thanks again to @CableMod. Initial Impressions The items came nicely packed in a sleek black box, inside a cable bag with all the sleeved cables individually wrapped. The series that I requested were to be compatible with the AX series of PSU’s from Corsair (AX760) with a custom designed tri-tone color of black, white, and silver. The sleeving material is a new one for CableMod and one of my personal favorites being a PET (plastic) type woven sleeving, compared to their current paracord type material. While paracord naturally has a tight weave and doesn’t show any color of the wiring through the sleeve one of the qualities of a good PET sleeving is a nice a tight weave without any color bleeding or showing through the material. With that comes good workmanship where the sleeve has to be pull very tightly along the length of the wire without any slack between the two. With the new materials I must say there is no color bleed through the sleeve that I can see and is an excellent job, more on the PET materials later. It is very nice to see that even with all the connectors populated on the PSU they provide extra cables which allow for different configurations depending on the requirements of each system. Finer Details and In-depth Look The cables are nice and thin even with the sleeving maintaining great flexibility which is great as it doesn’t add too much extra bulk. Initially that threw me off a bit as the wire looked a little small but from doing some very careful surgery I do see they are using the proper 18AWG, UL1007 rated wire. Excellent to see that as that is the industry standard and great for sleeving since they use nice thin insulation on the wires. And all back together as if that never happened. With that I took a quick look into the dimensions of the sleeved wires and did a quick comparison to some custom sleeving I personally did. Some of you may be wondering why this is relevant, but it is important in terms of added bulk and space, where one thicker wire isn’t a big deal but with 24 (ATX) of them together can add up and take up more room for cable management. For my custom sleeving I purchase regular 18AWG hookup wire as it was readily available and easy to get a hold of which had the thicker insulating jacket making the finished diameter a bit larger. One thing I did notice while I had the sleeving off was the color coordination of the base wire to light colored sleeving as that helps to prevent color bleed of the wire through the sleeve. The wires used were white even on the black sleeve, while ideally it would have been nice to see them color matched to the sleeving (black), the sleecing itself was done very well and pulled tightly making it have no potential color bleed, therefore it made no difference in reality. A minor detail but just something that caught my attention. Looking at the crimp terminals and connectors, it is nice to see that the sleeve is crimped very firmly in place with the terminals making it close to impossible for the sleeve to ever come off. Similarly with double wires for the PCI-E, Molex and Sata they are all done very cleanly and all tapered nicely to fit inside the connectors. These are usually the most difficult to do well in terms of sleeving since they are not very forgiving if there are errors and can be very noticeable. All in all I have to say these are very well made sleeved cables with great attention to detail. One minor thing I did want to mention is, I did notice that there was one or two spots where some fraying did occur near the connectors and terminals. While only being an extra strand or two they can easily be removed or clean off. Overall though I must say I am very impressed with the work that CableMod has done and with the addition of this new lineup giving more options to the customers. Their sleeved cables do come with a one year warranty if there are any issues that can potentially come up. I do look forward to seeing what new things CableMod plans to come out with in the future with their ever expanding line of products. As of right now CableMod offers the option to make custom cables to different lengths, colors, and designs with CableMod’s new Configurator for your own sleeving. Currently the new PET material is not out but should be available at around mid-May of 2016 from talking with CableMod.

Image Above Provided by: LittleCarrot Welcome to the Brand New Update for the Modding FAQ Post This has been quite the work giving the FAQ a new look from the old text based version and I hope everyone here enjoys it and find it useful. The old version however is not gone, for anyone who still wants to view it with the same up to date info I will leave a link to it HERE. This thread will go over some of the most common mods, contain information on sleeving, painting components, templates, modding, and more with detailed instructions for all the mods. If there is anything you want to see added, or contribute let me know by either posting below or messaging me I'm always open to new ideas. General Wiring Modding Painting

Fully water cooled and sleeved build in an Evolv ATX. Parts list here http://au.pcpartpicker.com/p/fcGFcf

I'm looking to spice up my build a little bit and looking to get new custom cables for my power supply. I have an EVGA Supernova 750 G2, I was just wondering where the best place is to get already sleeved custom cables and where I can find them the cheapest. Thanks for any suggestions! Any questions just ask. My build: Mobo: Z97 Sabertooth Mark 2, Processor: Intel Core-i7 4790k, RAM: 16gb Corsair Dominator Platinum Series, GPU: EVGA GTX 970 FTW Edition (soon to be 2)

Hi everyone, I'm looking for some white sleeved cable extensions that are low price as possible (and still do the job well). Any suggestions as to where I start looking and which products you guys recommend? Thanks.

- Ok guys i want to custom sleeve my cables BUT i have some questions... . - What type of wire to use ? . - Type of sleeving ? . - Why i don't just buy a pre-sleeved extensions ??? Because then it's not my work and i want to do it straight from my power supply . - And now most important thing SHOW OFF YOUR WORK . . . PS: Excuse me if there is grammar mistake.

I imagine most of you on the forum can relate to, at one time or another, thinking "I should be making money off of this" when it comes to PCs. I know I have on the about a dozen PCs I've built for friends and family. Recently I have been considering building a PC, just to put it up for sale on Craigslist or Amazon or something, but the risks in that are kinda high. Has anyone else tried this before?

Ive been considering sleeving cables into black, or red, for my pc that has two reference gtx 980s, and a black phanteks enthoo pro, with an MSI Z97 MPOWER MAX AC mobo that has a yellow on black color scheme. What should I go with for color?

Hello! I'm thinking of getting a PC in March of next year and I wanted my PC to look baller af, So my plan was a regular old Socket LGA 1150 with an i5 4460 and 1 GPU, the Sapphire R9 380 Nitro. So would I be right in saying the sleeves I need are: 1x 24pin CPU 1x 8pin CPU 1x 4x Sata Power 1x 6+2pin GPU Thanks for Reading! :lol: and sorry if I'm in the wrong section