so today's video is a little bit different it's one that was inspired by
basically my frustration i mean i'm the kind of person who whenever i'm giving
my case a reach around
ah funny right anyway whenever i'm plugging
anything into its backside
i like to be able to see what i'm doing and the problem with most cases is that
they simply don't have a way in a dark room i mean
obviously we've got studio lights in here right now so it's kind of a bad
example but in a dark room to see what the heck you're plugging into where so
this is a quick and easy diy solution to
that problem also i'm supposed to tease we're going to have a hard pipe water
cooled build log coming up pretty soon so stay tuned for that
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more about them all right so the first thing we've got to do in this video is go down on our
pcs alright so i'm gonna get down here on
all fours and uh
show you guys what the problem usually is so you can see back here there's uh
well for one thing i'm tethered to the wall by this whole room liquid cooling
setup thing so let's go ahead and
detach here all right there we go
nzxt cases have a feature that i've been saying forever
every case should have and that's they have a little led in the top right here
and then they have another one down here that illuminates all the rear i o so the
very least even if you can't really get your head in there you can you can kind
of you know as long as you can see what you're doing before you dive in then
you'll at least know what it is exactly that you're dealing with well
again i i don't understand why more manufacturers don't do this and i was
looking for a simple solution since obviously this is not an ntxt case and
as usual amazon has the answer trust me they've
got all kinds of stuff on amazon.com this one in particular is an led strip
and i wasn't actually looking for quite
as much of a pre-done solution as this i thought that i was going to have to buy
just a strip of leds and that i was going to have to figure out how to well
not figure out so much it's pretty easy they've got solder points on them just
like that i was going to have to hook up some kind of a power source and then
solder it to the positive and negative terminals but actually i ended up
finding one that was a extremely inexpensive and b even had a usb
connector right on it now before you do something like this it's really
important to bear in mind that you cannot use just any old leds 12 volt
leds which are the more uh the more standard voltage that leds you buy
online or wherever else you're going to run at won't work for exactly what we're
doing here now you could power 12 volt leds off of a computer in fact most of
the leds on your cooling fans or on the
strips that you run inside your case are going to be 12 volt leds but the reason
we need 5 volt is because i wanted the
here we go i wanted our led strips to run regardless of whether the system is
powered on or not so we're going to go ahead we're going to just kind of figure
out exactly where this is going to go and we're
going to show you guys a quick before and after here
i'm just gonna all you do is cut it off at the length
that you want so you'll see it's clearly marked with little uh with little cut
marks so we're gonna go ahead and i don't have scissors on me so i guess
we're using a knife oh
well i'm reaching there grab that out now that's nice
okay oh cut relatively easily now we have
some extra leds left over in case we ever wanted to do something like this again it's important again to note that
they're five volt leds now we're gonna go ahead
take the adhesive off the back i'll have this linked in the video description you
guys often complain that i never say how much things cost in my videos and the
reason is that it's always linked in the video description all you have to do is
click well and then click and then click again
yeah the price always changes
except for uh for me always a dollar
all right let's go ahead and get that baby in there
all right now you're going to want to watch out you don't want to accidentally make it so that you can't get at your
usb ports or anything so i'm going to oops
you know it's not the stickiest adhesive i've ever seen
so i'm gonna try and get it in there as much as i can i'll get you guys a better view of this uh probably after
which raises the question why bother recording it now at all well i don't
know i'm a youtuber i just record everything
it's for austerity
all right so we're going to run this all down the side of our top i o there
and then we're actually going to come out a little bit this is important
because we don't want this interfering with the
screws
here we go and then we're going to run right down
the very edge here there we go all right so we've got it
running all down this side here i would recommend normally turning your system
off anytime you're making modifications to it now
we're gonna do a little bit of now i would normally want to shorten this
uh wire if i was gonna plug it in directly but i'm actually gonna show you
something i'm gonna do that's a little bit different after we're going to plug this in
and just like that
amazing our i o
is illuminated and suddenly we are happy people that is some really
terrible adhesive on on this led strip i would recommend
replacing that with something else that is that is just horrendous
now the coolest thing about this and the main reason that we went with 5
volt power instead of 12 volt power is
this i'm going to shut down the computer
because let's face it a lot of the time
when you're trying to plug something into the back of a computer it will not be on
so the reason 5 volt is important instead of 12 volt is that 12 volt does
not run while the system is not
powered on whereas 5 volt our system is actually
off and the only way to get the light to turn off
is to actually power down the system outright power down the power supply
even so you can see i turn on the power supply boom now i can plug everything
easily without without any difficulty then if you don't want to plug into the
back of your computer there's actually one step further you can take it and
we're going to go ahead and show you guys why i didn't shorten the length of
this wire before so this is a cool little doodad that we
featured on our handy tech under 100
series not that long ago i'm just going to go ahead and kind of
cable manage that somewhat decently there we go
that is going to make it
so we can plug this into a usb header internally it goes from
a four pin connector like this to a female usb connector
so we plug that bad boy in plug that in there
close it up and there you have it
so i think that pretty much wraps this up guys uh let us know if you like this
kind of a format this is something a little bit different that we're doing we always want to want to hear from you
let's turn the computer on just make sure i haven't completely ruined it by
now and like this video if you liked it dislike it if you thought it sucked
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commenting are you laughing because you're looking at my nose or something no this is an uncomfortable position oh
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led strips on amazon.com and i think that pretty much wraps it up although
i'm not entirely sure i had actually brought up all of my talking points for
this video on the screen before i went and shut down my computer so i think
i'll pretty much have to sign off thanks for watching and as always if you haven't subscribed already then go ahead
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