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we all knew this was going to happen someone somewhere

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was going to invent something that shouldn't have been invented science was

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going to go too far and

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it looks like today is that day

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this is an early sample of the lian lee

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strymer streamer streamer

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let's try i'm gonna go with strymer an RGB

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24 pin power supply cable

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and get yours today i have been sent

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pretty much no information about this

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whatsoever all i know is that it's RGB

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and it's one of the only components of

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the modern computer that was still safe

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a cable how do you make a cable

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RGB lit

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i mean they've done RGB water cooling fittings

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but that like kind of makes sense

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because you can illuminate like a thing that's sitting there

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but an RGB cable

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okay now they're just messing with me we got like a box within a buck there's

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probably nothing even in here now to be clear this is not the finished

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packaging nor is it the finished product

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but they are apparently looking to launch this

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at computex 2018 so what do we got here

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this looks like some kind of a controller board

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this pool this definitely has some hand

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soldering stuff going on here you can see that this molex only has

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three pins in it presumably because they don't need 12 volt power

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and then they've actually bridged

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that pin to that five volt ah

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okay this is a power lead for the RGB cable

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itself and then we got three buttons back here no documentation so we're just

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gonna have to experiment to find out what they do

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this is the RGB

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cable extension so they haven't found a way to retrofit

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your existing power supply to make it full RGB

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but they've got this

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this harness here that you can plug your existing one into

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so you got 12 kind of um

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optical translucent doodads here you've

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got some leds within this casing here and then it looks like the whole thing

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sits on here all right

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well let's start by plugging it in

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alright so the idea is that whatever color your power supply cables are

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they would all be hidden away you would plug in this guy

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so there's nothing inherently RGB about the cables themselves

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let's plug in this guy so it looks like there's some kind of

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daisy chain system where you can plug this controller board

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into your first RGB cable thing and then you can plug another one into that or

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something oh

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it doesn't look like they thought that one through i mean it is prototype but

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like how am i supposed to get a connector in there

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apparently they're considering changing it out for a SATA connector anyway which

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i think would probably be a good idea oh

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that's fragile cool that is a oh that is not a reinforced

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this is this is very prototype okay this housing is not on here very well

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no right okay

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okay i can't quite tell what the pattern is right now

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uh is it me wiggling this wire it's making

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it poop uh

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you got you got to be kidding me

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okay that cannot be intentional

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there we go okay so it's a loose contact in there

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very prototype 10 out of 10 prototype

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okay oh it clips onto the cable combs

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not to the cables themselves so so far

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the wiring is fragile and it's a pain in the butt

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to install so what we're going to do is we're going to hide

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away our regular cable

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and we're going to experience the effect

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we're going to have to kill the light some more it's not that bright

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how's that okay let's try some of the different

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modes here i think i'm changing colors right now

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uh okay let's try this other button none of them are labeled so i'm just kind of

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guessing right now hey that one's pretty cool

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it's like can you imagine being the engineer who's like i went to school for

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eight years and they have me designing RGB animations

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on a cable and i'm not even mad i'm just

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disappointed

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oh man i think alex is gonna need this for his

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rave pc holy crap

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there's so many modes

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that's actually really cool oh my god

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you would say that every cable should look like that that

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is awesome are you just trying to like

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no that's so cool annoy people right now

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that is really cool like imagine all the cables being like

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that can i like take a dump on your parade a little bit

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okay it's not actually the cable

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it's just a piece that sits on top of it

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not simple you still like it yeah

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all right so all that's left now then is to determine how much it affects

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performance so we fired up the unigine valley benchmark and

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i'm just kidding um

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in conclusion i'm a little disappointed

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in the mechanism i had kind of imagined that like RGB

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water cooling fittings we were going to have an RGB element within the housing

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of the cable over here where it connects to your stock cable and the leds were

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going to be in there and then the actual sleeving of the wires was going to be

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some kind of like fiber optic element or something like that and and

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the sleeving itself would glow that was

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sort of my expectation and i'm sure someone's going to do that

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at some point but

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if you're into that kind of look like ed

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and you want your cables to have something

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near them if nothing else that glows RGB

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with a bazillion in one animations then i guess

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mission accomplished lien lee we have no idea how much they're going to cost and

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we have no idea where you're going to get them or what availability looks like for pci

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express or 8-pin connectors but there you have it a world's first

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RGB 24-pin computer power cable

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