It Finally Happened... - RGB PSU Cables
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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1,240 words · ~6 min read
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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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