CableMod C-Series Individually Sleeved Cables - Sexy and Simple
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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1,387 words · ~6 min read
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Is that guy really reviewing cables
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again? Will he be slamming them for being snake oil? Will he be pretending
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they give him special powers? Will he be climbing over the roof of his garage?
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No, none of those things today. It's just a straightup video on some
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straightup replacement modular cables for your PC power supply. The C series
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from Cable Mod.
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So, my initial discussion with the Cable Mod guys was pretty straightforward.
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They asked if I'd review their cables. I said, "Yeah, sure. They look
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interesting." They asked what color I'd like, and I said, "All of them." And
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they were like, "What?" And so I repeated myself, I would like all of
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them. And they were like, look, we're not going to we're not sending you enough to equip you and all your friends
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with a set of cables. I mean, someone has to actually buy these things at some
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point. And I was like, no, I I plan to hoard them all for myself. Then there
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was kind of silence on the other end of the phone line for a little while, followed by like, what could you
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possibly need 12 different color sets of cables for? And while I argued valiantly
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for the necessity of having them all on hand just in case I was in the mood to
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change my color scheme at some point in the future, it was in vain. They did
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send me all of the colors to show you guys, but I only got full sets of a few
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of them and just one of each of the rest. So, what in the devil are these
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then? Well, it's been fashionable for quite some time. And we have a local
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Vancouver gentleman who goes by the name of Charles to mostly thank for the
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popularization of this to individually sleeve each wire in a 24 pin, 8 pin, six
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pin, or however many pin cable for aesthetics. And it's a purely aesthetic
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play, by the way, since it actually makes the wires bulkier from an airflow
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perspective compared to having them on their own or bundling them together with
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a single sleeve. The problem with individual sleeving is that it's
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extremely expensive and timeconuming to
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source the quality materials and tools that you need to do it than actually do
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it. Seriously, it takes a long time. So,
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for most people who aren't going to make custom cables and just want to sleeve
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the standard ones that would normally be included with their power supply, an
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aftermarket prepackaged solution is a nice little timesaver. Although, this
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isn't the first such product. NZXT's approach early on in this trend was to
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offer extensions for any power supply
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cable. These had the benefit of excellent compatibility, but the
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drawback of additional resistance on every wire, and they required the user
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to find somewhere to tuck away and hide the rest of what was otherwise already a
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fulllength cable. Corsair actually provides pre-individually sleeved cable
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kits for some of their fully modular power supplies, but the sleing they use
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isn't that great and it's only available in a few different colors. Although on
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the other side of the spectrum, there are some custom shops online that you
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can order made to order cables from, but not everyone is comfortable with that.
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And although the selection is unlimited, they can get very expensive. So, Cable
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Mods tries to bridge the gap, I guess. They use paracord type sle that they
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brand as mod flex which means it's extremely flexible. It's softer and IMO
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nicer looking than the traditional sleing materials. And it doesn't allow
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any of the color of the wire to be seen through it. It's actually very similar
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to what Silverstone uses on the cables on this power supply that I declared to
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be the best I'd ever seen for modular cables a couple of years ago, but they
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don't have the same cost associated with them that a custom one does. Another
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nice touch actually is that they don't use any heat shrink. You know, that kind
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of plastic stuff on the end of every sleeve that holds it in place. This
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gives every wire an extremely clean look as it goes into the connector. Or at
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least all of that is all the stuff that Cable Mod claims on their website. I
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wouldn't be much of a reviewer if I didn't spend some time validating all of
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this. So, I took my C series cables,
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which means I had to use, of course, their AXI, HXI, or RM series power
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supply, and I built myself a little system here. They do have the right pin
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outs available for other popular power supplies from Corsair, EVGA, and CIC,
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and apparently more colors coming, but this is what we've got for now. So, as
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advertised, the cables plug into the things and make your system look
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subjectively better. If I had to come up with a complaint, it would be that not
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enough ponies galloped past me while I was building the system with the cable
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mod cables. That would be a massive improvement. Which leads us pretty well
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into the conclusion that practically writes itself. If you're into hot
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rodding your PC and having it look all, you know, sweet and you don't feel like
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sle yourself, something that some people are into but most find tedious and
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bothersome, then cable Mod delivers the goods. enthusiast grade individually
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