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I've read up on powersupply wires. They apprently have capacitors attached to them to reduce ripple. So i ripped the sleeving off my evga 850 g2 and this was true. My question is, when i get some custom psu cable mod cables for my new rig, how will they reduce the ripple of a psu since they dont contain capacitors in the wires? 

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this is pretty strange. Because if they have like capacitors in series with the cable, it's acting as a low pass filter. It's not gonna let DC pass. It should be connected as like a cap to ground so it reduces ripple. It's not gonna make much of a difference. 

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They only do it so that artificial tests give better results, such as in the case of JohnnyGuru or Tomshardware doing their PSU tests.

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AFAIK, they do have capacitors on them, but they put it further away - right in the middle of the cable. This allow you to route the cable to the back of the motherboard tray and keep it hidden. However, since it had been moved further away, some of its filtering capability has been lost and may exhibit marginally higher ripples. It shouldn't effect your system though, but it could have been removed altogether to have a more clean look.

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I think they did have them at one point but I'm not sure.  Maybe@CableMod can help

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On 2/19/2017 at 1:28 PM, Oppslia said:

I've read up on powersupply wires. They apprently have capacitors attached to them to reduce ripple. So i ripped the sleeving off my evga 850 g2 and this was true. My question is, when i get some custom psu cable mod cables for my new rig, how will they reduce the ripple of a psu since they dont contain capacitors in the wires? 

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