Do OcUK selling braiding??

nantucket66 · 14 Jul 2009 at 21:56

I should be receving my new Silverstone TJ07 within the next day or 2, I have had the internals powdercoated and will be getting any visible screws sprayed black.

I will also be braiding my cables and modding the case in the few key areas to help with cable management. In terms of the actual build it will be a few weeks away due to to work commitments and I will be struggling for time etc.

I will be cooling on air for a few months and once my bank has recovered I will be watercooling.

I will be buying 24 pin and 8 pin extension leads and braiding them

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CB-021-AK&groupid=701&catid=48&subcat=153

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http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CB-022-AK&tool=3

This may sound really anal, but in the pictures the plugs are black......in reality is this the case?? Attention to detail is going to be key and I don't want white plugs! If not, where can I get them from?

Because I have not braided before I have a couple of questions - do OcUK sell braiding/heatshrink, if so I cannot see it. If not could someone please email me in trust to let me know where I can buy it, also for these cables what size of braiding do I need?

Thanks in advance

JonJ678 · 14 Jul 2009 at 22:05

Id expect them to be black, as theyre branded rather than generic. They probably come braided already, unless you have the single wire braided idea in mind.

Braiding isn't sold here. I'm not going to email you with a supplier I'm afraid, as you asking us to is blatently against forum rules. Perhaps someone else will. Sizes will be various, depending on which cables you have in mind. I believe standard is to buy one size too large for heatshrink to make putting it on easier. I've never braided anything though, so can't really say. Where it's an airflow issue I tend to wrap cables in electrical tape or stuff them down watercooling pipes.

What do you have in mind for cable management? Extension cables are a great idea. Other standards are mounting hard drives backwards, which may be easy/impossible depending on case or irrelevent if yours mounts them sideways. A useful trick i don't see often is 90 degree sata cables, plugged in and routed directly under the motherboard. You get what looks like a tiny black plug instead of an entire cable, but do lose access to an sata port. The 8 pin cable can be routed along the top of the board, and basically invisible as a result, many fan wires can go largely under the board. The 24 pin I just don't know what to do with

nantucket66 · 14 Jul 2009 at 22:10

Think what I plan to do is to secure the 24 pin/8pin lead behind the mobo tray, braid the extensions and have the joins out of sight.

As for HDD, I am not too sure yet, need to see as I have not made my mind up re SSD or traditional, and also how many etc etc.

It will be a work in process for a while.

I understand re: competitors, but as with my TJ07 I want to buy something Overclockers do not sell!!

JonJ678 · 14 Jul 2009 at 22:16

So a hole cut in the tray near the motherboard socket? I'm not so keen on that myself, might try for a hole hidden mostly hidden by the motherboard, with the cable curling around into it. I've always stayed away from holes in the tray as I change motherboard fairly often though.

SSD dominates, clearly. One ssd with at least one hard drive is about as good as it gets. I'm on one ssd, one hard drive, one optical drive occupying 3/6 of the sata ports. Nice and tidy. Theres a hole cut out behind the processor socket, the ssd is actually screwed to the back of the motherboard tray. Cant get more hidden than that

Mines been a work in progress since may last year, suspect it'll never be finished.

Yep. I'm not saying the competitor rule is sensible. But somewhere that sells braiding may well sell other things overclockers do sell, and you might buy these other things from there, and so ocuk get less sales. It makes enough sense that its hard to argue with. Mountainmods make the higher quality stuff, I believe a risk with cheap braiding is that you can see through it

nantucket66 · 15 Jul 2009 at 07:21

Sorted

I found somewhere that had exactly what I needed plus a little more.

The only thing I have not bought from Overclockers for this build is the things I have been unable to, i.e. the TJ07, the powdercoating and the braiding bits and bobs.

I enquired about the TJ07, but was told they could not order single units.

Looking forward to a few days of braiding.