Light Up Sata III Cables?

Spankme

Spankme

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I am in the process of building my first gaming pc and for asthetics does anyone know if anyone does Sata 3 Cables that light up dark blue/black? Not the UV ones, i am specifically looking for one that light up a deap blue... does anyone know of a product as my search as been to no avail :(
 
Spankme said:
I am in the process of building my first gaming pc and for asthetics does anyone know if anyone does Sata 3 Cables that light up dark blue/black? Not the UV ones, i am specifically looking for one that light up a deap blue... does anyone know of a product as my search as been to no avail :(
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Hi welcome to OCUK :),

I don't think these exist. The only way they would be able to light up would be via UV or an LED but there will be no where near enough power running through a sata data cable to even power a led. And it would not physically fit either. I think your only option here is UV.

Or some kids glow in the dark crayons ( joke please don't crayloa your cables )
 
Novelty would wear off quick but running lights on a sata cable reactive to data load would be kind of cool.
 
Oh thanks for you responce..

My I3 rig is on its last legs, was built maybe 8 years ago so am looking to upgrade.. but if i am gonna spend £750 on a new rig i kinda want it to sing and dance too lol
 
New Rig i am almost ready to click buy on consists of:

ZALMAN Z11 Neo Mid ATX/M-ATX Tower Case
MSI 970 GAMING Socket AM3+ 7.1-Channel HD Audio ATX Motherboard
AMD FX-8350 4GHz Socket AM3+ 8MB processor
Gigabyte Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Windforce OC 4GB
Cooler Master Hyper 103 Air CPU Cooler
HyperX 8GB 1333MHz DDR3 CL9 DIMM (Kit of 2) HyperX Fury Red Series x 2
WD Blue 500GB 2.5-inch Internal SSD
Corsair CX 600W Fully Wired 80+ Bronze Power Supply

What do you guys think?










 
 
I love that you took the time to do that so quickly, it took me about 4 hours to configure the one i made..

Thanks for you advice, i will 100% take your list onboard and tweak my huild :)
 
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I love that you took the time to do that so quickly, it took me about 4 hours to configure the one i made..

Thanks for you advice, i will 100% take your list onboard and tweak my huild :)
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i would really recommend that whilst doing so you check some benchmarks/youtube videos out of the hardware combinations you are testing to see the real world differences.
 
to be fair i was wanting more of a gaming pc, high eng gfx card with at least a 500gb ssd.. that was my own guidelines of the build... as long as it could play at least Batman Arkham knight i would be happy

oh of course asthetics come in to it thats why i picked the Zalman Z11 case :)
 
Aye i hear that. An ssd really isn't needed for games. Having OS on an SSD and 1-2 games that will benefit from it IE Arma but most games will still see a cache benefit from the ssd and will feel snappier launching anyway. Again your best of looking at some benchmarks whilst you pick parts :) but the 1060 and ryzen chip are both waves faster than the two you pointed to earlier.

in addition the ryzen chip will be good for a really nice period of time from now the 8350 is already obsolete. In a few years if you want an upgrade a simple gpu upgrade will be just fine. Also as you said aesthetics are important and we all have different tastes so that will certainly need tweaking on your part. But on a budget i would always take performance over pretty. You can still keep a build clean and tidy without spending any premium money.

Edit : also the 1060 is faster than a 1050ti :)
 
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oh of course asthetics come in to it thats why i picked the Zalman Z11 case :)
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Getting a system to look nice is one thing but the Zalman cases are terrible for cooling and really bad to get good cable management so it wouldn't look good through the window..

Personally if you want it to light up and look good but have good cooling and good cable management look at the Phanteks Eclipse P400
 
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Getting a system to look nice is one thing but the Zalman cases are terrible for cooling and really bad to get good cable management so it wouldn't look good through the window..

Personally if you want it to light up and look good but have good cooling and good cable management look at the Phanteks Eclipse P400
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That case was one of my top 3 when considerig the build, but it has one huge downfall for me, no tray for a dvd drive.. and not really loking to add an external..
If it had the tray, i woulda orderd that months ago as i think its worth building properly.
Good call though :)
 
if you really want the disc drive go for the phanteks enthoo pro m and add a few rgb fans. I've got the enthoo pro m its a great case. I'm thinking on doing away with my blu ray burner as I cant remember the last time I used it.
 
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if you really want the disc drive go for the phanteks enthoo pro m and add a few rgb fans. I've got the enthoo pro m its a great case. I'm thinking on doing away with my blu ray burner as I cant remember the last time I used it.
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Hmm you got me thinking now, might do another look about on internals aswell....
Might just spend all the cash on HUGE gfx card and build around that lol
 
There's paste on the stock R5 1600 cooler, if you get an "X" version you'd need to buy a cooler (new normally come with paste in a tube or pre-applied), if you bought a second hand cooler, then you'd need paste.

If you removed the cooler and then refitted it, that's when you'd want paste.
 
would the cool master 212 work with that processor and board?

EDIT:

Yes it will, added it to my list, the clock speeds on that rig posted earler in this thread are really good, better than the build i made :)
 
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