Cable braiding tutorial

almostgfx · 5 Sep 2011 at 21:51

Where is the best place to buy the cable braid stuff??

Evoss · 6 Sep 2011 at 01:59

almostgfx said:
Where is the best place to buy the cable braid stuff??

King Damager · 23 Sep 2011 at 22:34

Nevermind... gave it to the fiancee and she managed to do it in like 5 seconds -.-

Have now tried a different cable and managed to do that one with a bit more force, and she couldn't do my original one so think it's the cable being lame..

kd

bastic · 25 Sep 2011 at 22:23

can someone advise, how much braid I should get ? how many meters ?
for sata cables, all PSU cables...
I know I could just measure them but am bit lazy

and not even close to my PC

Thanks

Greboth · 26 Sep 2011 at 09:36

Quite literally how long is a piece of wire? The only way anyone could answer that question is if they had the same psu as you and measure for you. The easiest way is to check for yourself.

Howling · 3 Oct 2011 at 06:20

May be a dumb question, but why would you want to braid the cables? What does it do exactly?

Greboth · 3 Oct 2011 at 10:12

Simply put - It looks pretty

It is just the next step of customisation after painting / powder coating the case, painting fans, running coloured fluid in watercooling loops etc.

Howling · 3 Oct 2011 at 18:21

Fair enough

Can think of more functional uses of my time/money though

Greboth · 3 Oct 2011 at 21:37

It is down to the individual really, like painting fans or powder coating internals is it worth it? It certainly isn't needed so only you can answer that.

Howling · 3 Oct 2011 at 21:42

Aye, I'll never do any of that

Though, if I ever get round to liquid cooling my rig I'll make it look nice ofcourse

Miidget · 7 Oct 2011 at 21:14

Awesome guide there, so simple to do and it looks great at the end.

Even if that cable is "expensive" its about a million times cheaper than most of the other stuff to do with computers.

TechFunctions · 15 Oct 2011 at 21:11

Fantasic guide, Going to give it a go on my new build.

Thanks

AdamN · 24 Oct 2011 at 17:52

Thanks for the fantastic tutorial. I will almost certainly be having a go at this myself!

AdamN.

gatecrasherlok · 27 Oct 2011 at 14:11

Thanks for the guide it is very helpful indeed. got my 24pin done, all sata and i/o port connections done too. I will soon start on my fans and after that, I will get my pci-e cables done. However I am a little concerned with the pci-e cables as there is this bulgy part near the graphics card connector. I am insure as to what i should do so any advice would be much appreciated.

Sorry for the horrible iphone pic but hopefully this clarifies what the problem is at hand.

Greboth · 28 Oct 2011 at 13:11

I don't know what it is, not had a psu with though I have seen them in picturee before. Is there individual wires both sides as I would guess it is just a clip of some sort but I don't know.

Hyburnate · 28 Oct 2011 at 13:12

Looks like it turns it from one cable into many.

gatecrasherlok · 29 Oct 2011 at 02:52

I think I wont chance it and end up killing the power supply cable, I might just buy some extensions and rebraid it to the colour scheme i guess. These cables are from the Corsair ax1200 if that helps.

pisto_grih · 31 Oct 2011 at 13:35

gatecrasherlok said:
I think I wont chance it and end up killing the power supply cable, I might just buy some extensions and rebraid it to the colour scheme i guess. These cables are from the Corsair ax1200 if that helps.

its a ferrite block, cut off the plastic and sleeve then hit it with a hammer to break it off. You don't really need it.

(Warranty invalidated at your own risk, I am not an expert etc)

lrlcr · 31 Oct 2011 at 14:52

TBH, i'd only cable braid for custom colours/combo coloured cables.

If you just want solid colours then the bitfenix extensions are much easier. That said I'd like to mod a PSU so all the cables are exactly the right length an all spaced appropriately for my HDD etc.

prattlesnake42 · 11 Dec 2011 at 00:35

Great guide