Cable Sleeving Help

[EmeraldKiwi]

So. I started sleeving my power supply cables, and literally after 5 minutes I run into a stump: The FIRST cable I decide to sleeve (An 8 pin input to PSU to a 6+2 pin input to whatever) has this little stumpy thing on it. I have a picture attached so you can see what I'm talking about. My question is: Is this little cylinder thingy vital to the proper function of the cable I'm sleeving? I have an EVGA 750 G2 PSU to be clear.

[dadasmithywinkle]

It's a capactior and yes it is needed.

[Guest]

Its capacitor and if its there than leave it there

[W-L]

So. I started sleeving my power supply cables, and literally after 5 minutes I run into a stump: The FIRST cable I decide to sleeve (An 8 pin input to PSU to a 6+2 pin input to whatever) has this little stumpy thing on it. I have a picture attached so you can see what I'm talking about. My question is: Is this little cylinder thingy vital to the proper function of the cable I'm sleeving? I have an EVGA 750 G2 PSU to be clear.

 

That's what makes that PSU have amazingly low ripple so don't remove it, you can extend the wire or make new wire and wire it further back along the cable to hide it behind the motherboard tray. 

[EmeraldKiwi]

Well, if it suppresses ripples, why isn't it apart of the PSU board? Why does it have to be on the cable? How do I sleeve it?

[W-L]

Well, if it suppresses ripples, why isn't it apart of the PSU board? Why does it have to be on the cable? How do I sleeve it?

 

It's designed to supply a sudden jump in energy to the device and it's best at doing so right close to it, but some people do move them slightly by extending the wire to the capacitors, which won't make a huge difference as long as you use the proper wire gauge. 

Here's a tutorial on this: http://www.overclock.net/t/1494167/tutorial-sleeving-evga-supernova-1300-g2-with-capacitors-and-stealth-lacing

 

Evga does makes a sleeved cable set that don't have those placed on the cables I believe: http://www.evga.com/Products/ProductList.aspx?type=10&family=Power+Supplies&chipset=+Power+Supply+Cable+Set+(Individually+Sleeved)

[EmeraldKiwi]

Does anyone know what would happen if I were to remove them? Because I have a CX600M installed as my PSU right now and I don't believe it has those little thingies on the cables, so to me it doesn't seem like it's necessary. Ugh..

[W-L]

Does anyone know what would happen if I were to remove them? Because I have a CX600M installed as my PSU right now and I don't believe it has those little thingies on the cables, so to me it doesn't seem like it's necessary. Ugh..

It would cause more ripple which means a greater fluctuation in the voltage to your components. Short term not so bad but in the long term it's not good for parts in your system, so it's not a good idea to remove them.

[EmeraldKiwi]

For anyone looking at this topic at a future date, I ended up sleeving all the cables to see how it looked. I thought if I don't like it, I can just try to take them out or hide them somehow. I ended up leaving them in, and it didn't turn out that bad actually. I will attach a few photos hopefully sometime if I can convince myself to actually get up and take a few pictures.

EDIT:

I had a picture on my phone already, so I attached that. I took it when I finished one of the cables. I took two 6+2 pin cables and used cable combs to connect them since almost every GPU these days uses at least two six pins, and others use one 6 and one 8. Anyway, it looked pretty nice other than the fact that the CPU cable and the 24 pin cable attached backwards of how I set up the capacitors. I set them up to be hidden on one side of the cable, but since it attached backwards, I did a hot fix and pushed them back through the cables mass to the opposite side. Didn't quite look as good, but it works.

For anyone in the future wondering what the capacitors are actually for, they're to smooth out electrical ripples AT the connection point to increase consistence in the supplied current. Honestly, they really should be in (or on I guess) the actual PSU board instead of at the end of the cable at the connection point. At least I would suggest putting them on the other end of the cable, so they're on the PSU side, but anyone using the cables as they are don't need to worry since they're covered in heatshrink, so using them stock won't be too bad. At least all the cables are black and not yellow and red like other cables I e seen.

TL;DR:

The solution is to either take them off if you're comfortable with electronics, or to try to hide them. Or if you're using them as is, then it doesn't matter because you can't see them anyway. Bam. I'm done now.