we all knew this was going to happen someone somewhere
was going to invent something that shouldn't have been invented science was
going to go too far and
it looks like today is that day
this is an early sample of the lian lee
strymer streamer streamer
let's try i'm gonna go with strymer an RGB
24 pin power supply cable
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pretty much no information about this
whatsoever all i know is that it's RGB
and it's one of the only components of
the modern computer that was still safe
a cable how do you make a cable
RGB lit
i mean they've done RGB water cooling fittings
but that like kind of makes sense
because you can illuminate like a thing that's sitting there
but an RGB cable
okay now they're just messing with me we got like a box within a buck there's
probably nothing even in here now to be clear this is not the finished
packaging nor is it the finished product
but they are apparently looking to launch this
at computex 2018 so what do we got here
this looks like some kind of a controller board
this pool this definitely has some hand
soldering stuff going on here you can see that this molex only has
three pins in it presumably because they don't need 12 volt power
and then they've actually bridged
that pin to that five volt ah
okay this is a power lead for the RGB cable
itself and then we got three buttons back here no documentation so we're just
gonna have to experiment to find out what they do
this is the RGB
cable extension so they haven't found a way to retrofit
your existing power supply to make it full RGB
but they've got this
this harness here that you can plug your existing one into
so you got 12 kind of um
optical translucent doodads here you've
got some leds within this casing here and then it looks like the whole thing
sits on here all right
well let's start by plugging it in
alright so the idea is that whatever color your power supply cables are
they would all be hidden away you would plug in this guy
so there's nothing inherently RGB about the cables themselves
let's plug in this guy so it looks like there's some kind of
daisy chain system where you can plug this controller board
into your first RGB cable thing and then you can plug another one into that or
something oh
it doesn't look like they thought that one through i mean it is prototype but
like how am i supposed to get a connector in there
apparently they're considering changing it out for a SATA connector anyway which
i think would probably be a good idea oh
that's fragile cool that is a oh that is not a reinforced
this is this is very prototype okay this housing is not on here very well
no right okay
okay i can't quite tell what the pattern is right now
uh is it me wiggling this wire it's making
it poop uh
you got you got to be kidding me
okay that cannot be intentional
there we go okay so it's a loose contact in there
very prototype 10 out of 10 prototype
okay oh it clips onto the cable combs
not to the cables themselves so so far
the wiring is fragile and it's a pain in the butt
to install so what we're going to do is we're going to hide
away our regular cable
and we're going to experience the effect
we're going to have to kill the light some more it's not that bright
how's that okay let's try some of the different
modes here i think i'm changing colors right now
uh okay let's try this other button none of them are labeled so i'm just kind of
guessing right now hey that one's pretty cool
it's like can you imagine being the engineer who's like i went to school for
eight years and they have me designing RGB animations
on a cable and i'm not even mad i'm just
disappointed
oh man i think alex is gonna need this for his
rave pc holy crap
there's so many modes
that's actually really cool oh my god
you would say that every cable should look like that that
is awesome are you just trying to like
no that's so cool annoy people right now
that is really cool like imagine all the cables being like
that can i like take a dump on your parade a little bit
okay it's not actually the cable
it's just a piece that sits on top of it
not simple you still like it yeah
all right so all that's left now then is to determine how much it affects
performance so we fired up the unigine valley benchmark and
i'm just kidding um
in conclusion i'm a little disappointed
in the mechanism i had kind of imagined that like RGB
water cooling fittings we were going to have an RGB element within the housing
of the cable over here where it connects to your stock cable and the leds were
going to be in there and then the actual sleeving of the wires was going to be
some kind of like fiber optic element or something like that and and
the sleeving itself would glow that was
sort of my expectation and i'm sure someone's going to do that
at some point but
if you're into that kind of look like ed
and you want your cables to have something
near them if nothing else that glows RGB
with a bazillion in one animations then i guess
mission accomplished lien lee we have no idea how much they're going to cost and
we have no idea where you're going to get them or what availability looks like for pci
express or 8-pin connectors but there you have it a world's first
RGB 24-pin computer power cable
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