Budget Cable Sleeving

[OJC_GALANT]

Hello there.

 

Since the ethereum craze means that my PC can't shine in terms of performance (no GPUs), I decided to go down the aesthetics path. I have bought a nice, new case with a massive acrylic window (scared of tempered glass shattering into millions of pieces) which I am very happy with. But it has a caveat: It exposes the ugly cables of my cheap PSU. Having done a solid amount of research I still haven't found a budget friendly way to hide my "ketchup and mustard" power cables under some sleeving. I have looked into prefabricated kits (they seem to only be compatible with expensive *af* PSUs) and also into doing it myself (I don't really know how that works and it seems to be rather pricey as well)

 

Is there any sort of trick that I am missing? Is there a way to get a decent PSU with sleeved cables under a 100€? I don't have much more money to spend, because I am still a student.

 

Thanks for any advice you can give me.

 

J

[OJC_GALANT]

Spoiler

 

This is the case I bought btw

Aerocool Aero 300 (with Window)

[LHJKO]

u can use extension cable 

[OJC_GALANT]

Just now, Vernw3 said:

u can use extension cable 

Can you give me a link to an extension kit that you would recommend?

 

Thank you kindly for your response!

 

J

[LHJKO]

Just now, OJC_GALANT said:

Can you give me a link to an extension kit that you would recommend?

 

Thank you kindly for your response!

 

J

https://store.cablemod.com/products/?filter_product-category=basic-extension-kits

[Oshino Shinobu]

Is the PSU modular? If not, then I wouldn't really bother, it's a massive pain to the point of not being worth it. Even sleeving a modular PSU takes a long time and is tedious.

 

AFAIK, no PSUs come with sleeved cables. I believe there have been a few PSUs that did, but I'm not aware of any that are available today and the ones that did have them were all kind of crappy (in terms of sleeving quality). 

 

As your case has a PSU cover already, all you really need to cover up is the component end of the cables. For that, you can buy extension cables from the likes of Bitfenix for a decent look at relatively low cost. CableMod also has extension kits available, but they can be a bit pricey. 

[OJC_GALANT]

Thank you for your reply Oshino! When I looked at cable mods offering the extension appeared to use proprietary connectors for the peripheral cables that were specific for a certain modular PSU model. I will give Bitfenix a try though.

 

Thank you very much

 

J

[LHJKO]

Best of all, these are compatible with every power supply on the market, making them a great way to enhance the look of any build.

cablemed so it should work

[OJC_GALANT]

3 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

As your case has a PSU cover already, all you really need to cover up in the component end of the cables. For that, you can buy extension cables from the likes of Bitfenix for a decent look at relatively low cost. CableMod also has extension kits available, but they can be a bit pricey. 

Oh okay. I just wanted a PSU cover to present my SSD. Glad that it serves more than one purpose.

 

J

[OJC_GALANT]

1 minute ago, Vernw3 said:

Best of all, these are compatible with every power supply on the market, making them a great way to enhance the look of any build.

cablemed so it should work

Thank you Vernw3

 

J

[Oshino Shinobu]

5 minutes ago, OJC_GALANT said:

Thank you for your reply Oshino! When I looked at cable mods offering the extension appeared to use proprietary connectors for the peripheral cables that were specific for a certain modular PSU model. I will give Bitfenix a try though.

 

Thank you very much

 

J

The component end of cables are all standard, it's not possible to tailor extensions for a specific PSU as they all terminate in the same connector layout (unless it uses proprietary or non-standard connectors, but CableMod doesn't have any of those) They do have sets of cables for specific PSUs, but those aren't extension cables. Extensions are pinned 1 to 1 (no cross overs) male to female, so they "extend" the connector from the component end. 

[Damascus]

4 minutes ago, OJC_GALANT said:

Thank you for your reply Oshino! When I looked at cable mods offering the extension appeared to use proprietary connectors for the peripheral cables that were specific for a certain modular PSU model. I will give Bitfenix a try though.

 

Thank you very much

 

J

Extensions plug on to the end of your current cables.

[OJC_GALANT]

Just now, Damascus said:

Extensions plug on to the end of your current cables.

 

I am not thatt much of a newb

 

As I said, I did some research...

 

Thanks for all the rapid responses!

[OJC_GALANT]

I want to cheap out. I decided to buy some electrical tape and cover my cables in it rather than using proper braided sleeves. I will document how it goes if anyone is interested. Sleeving my entire setup will cost no more than 10 bucks and should be fairly easily done due to the nature of the tape.

 

*EDIT*

If it doesn't work, then it's not a big deal, because I can still add extensions after that and the investment in electrical tape was reasonably small.

[CableMod]

@OJC_Galan if it doesn't work, feel free to shoot us an email if you have any questions. We offer very affordable cable extension kits.