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I've had to disassemble and reassemble my computer three times to fix things and I was wondering if there really is any way to make the plastic on the wires less painful?

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17 minutes ago, Spectral said:

wondering if there really is any way to make the plastic on the wires less painful?

How is the plastic on the wires painful? Are you referring to the plastic blocks surrounding the connectors, or the heatshrink/insulation?

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Just now, quakeguy81 said:

Molex connectors can be painful to remove repeatedly, especially the ones with clips.

Interesting, I've never had that problem.

 

My only problem with Molex is that the pins aren't fixed.

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24 minutes ago, Zmax said:

Use gloves.

6 minutes ago, quakeguy81 said:

This is probably the best answer.  Wear some gloves if the connector clips start hurting to remove.

I personally could not recommend wearing gloves as it takes away your ability to deal with very fine work and feeling when you are doing something wrong. If your fingers hurt, it means your probably were taking your time and making sure everything was done right.

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See a doctor. 

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6 hours ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

How is the plastic on the wires painful? Are you referring to the plastic blocks surrounding the connectors, or the heatshrink/insulation?

Always the plastic blocks. No clue if I'm just using too much force or its just supposed to hurt.

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6 hours ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Interesting, I've never had that problem.

 

My only problem with Molex is that the pins aren't fixed.

Molex can be a real bitch and kill your fingers, especially on older PSUs where there is shit ton of molex. Luckily you can live without them on new builds. 

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6 hours ago, quakeguy81 said:

I've never had to repeatedly unplug molex connectors, but if he is troubleshooting POST issues, he might be obsessively unplugging power connectors on the motherboard.

The entire process of building and rebuilding a computer causes pain. Not really painful it's more like extremely uncomfortable.  Any cable with a clip like the cpu power, motherboard power, and the vga power cable's plastic block hurts like hell.

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6 hours ago, quakeguy81 said:

Molex connectors can be painful to remove repeatedly, especially the ones with clips.

People still use Molex in 2018?

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Yeah, that 24 pin power connector can be a major pain in the ass to remove sometimes and could totally see it hurting your fingers.

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"your fingers hurt? well your back's about to hurt because you just pulled landscaping duty"

 

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In all seriousness, its part of the fun or like said above...wear gloves

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On 12/4/2018 at 11:12 PM, Spectral said:

I've had to disassemble and reassemble my computer three times to fix things and I was wondering if there really is any way to make the plastic on the wires less painful?

Same thing with playing guitar.  If you keep doing that you will build calluses and make your skin tougher.  Your skin just isn't used to being stretched and poked like that.

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On 12/4/2018 at 9:12 PM, Spectral said:

way to make the plastic on the wires less painful?

wear gloves!

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On 12/5/2018 at 8:09 PM, Spectral said:

its just supposed to hurt.

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On 12/5/2018 at 3:20 AM, Princess Cadence said:

People still use Molex in 2018?

Why wouldn't they? Do you have any idea how expensive it would be and how long it would take to re-write entire standards to use different, more comfortable connectors that do the exact same thing as the current ones?

Although, it wouldn't be too hard to custom make the plastic pieces with a more elegant exterior as long as the internal shapes for the pins are exactly the same as the originals. Molex is a big company, and they will make custom variants of their connectors if you can afford to contract them to do so.

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7 hours ago, Phas3L0ck said:

Why wouldn't they? Do you have any idea how expensive it would be and how long it would take to re-write entire standards to use different, more comfortable connectors that do the exact same thing as the current ones?

Although, it wouldn't be too hard to custom make the plastic pieces with a more elegant exterior as long as the internal shapes for the pins are exactly the same as the originals. Molex is a big company, and they will make custom variants of their connectors if you can afford to contract them to do so.

 

The point is almost everything uses either PCI-E or SATA power connectors. Some fan adapters aside almost nothing uses molex anymore.

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On 12/5/2018 at 5:50 AM, GalacticRuler said:

I personally could not recommend wearing gloves as it takes away your ability to deal with very fine work and feeling when you are doing something wrong. If your fingers hurt, it means your probably were taking your time and making sure everything was done right.

on the other hand it's not surgery so even wearing gloves you should be able to build a pc ^^

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On 12/4/2018 at 11:34 PM, Crunchy Dragon said:

Interesting, I've never had that problem.

 

My only problem with Molex is that the pins aren't fixed.

Molex needs to die in a fire.

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50 minutes ago, campy said:

Molex is all I got 

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On 12/22/2018 at 10:56 AM, CarlBar said:

 

The point is almost everything uses either PCI-E or SATA power connectors. Some fan adapters aside almost nothing uses molex anymore.

The mainboard power (24 pin), CPU power, (4 and 8 pin) and graphics card (PCI-E) power are all "molex" or at least in the molex style.

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