Paracord Sleeving - Going great until now - 6+2pin.

twera · 24 Apr 2013 at 09:45

Hi everyone,

I usually try do my research first and not bother fellow members about my troubles but I've run into an issue.

I'm sleeving my PSU (XFX 550W Core) non-modular - so I'm depinning - sleeving into the PSU and then re-pinning. Easy? Yep, well until now. I'm trying to sleeve my 6+2pin connector but I just can't sleeve it - when try it won't fit back into the ATX connector.

Any ideas?

Leprechaun312 · 24 Apr 2013 at 09:51

is it all the cables that won't fit or is it just the one that you have sleaved? btw where di you get your paracord adn how much did it cost you?

twera · 24 Apr 2013 at 09:56

well initially i tried to just sleeve the 6 and let the 2pin hang out, but it won't go back into the connector because 2 of the pins have another 2 coming off it, which makes it barely fit as is without sleeve, and now with sleeve there is no chance. Should I just snip off the 2 pins?

I got my paracord from "thebushcraftstore" - 100feet was about £8 delivered.

Leprechaun312 · 24 Apr 2013 at 10:00

twera said:
well initially i tried to just sleeve the 6 and let the 2pin hang out, but it won't go back into the connector because 2 of the pins have another 2 coming off it, which makes it barely fit as is without sleeve, and now with sleeve there is no chance. Should I just snip off the 2 pins?

well will you be using the 2 pin connector at anypoint? if you get a new g-card int he future that uses one you can get a cable that is 6 pin to 8 pin adapter...i think i even have one got it with my 6970 so there is no need for the 2 pin adapter

twera said:
I got my paracord from "thebushcraftstore" - 100feet was about £8 delivered.

will be looking in to that

Tealc · 24 Apr 2013 at 10:08

You could buy an extension for the 6+2.

The double terminals are usually a physically larger terminal and considering how tight the standard ones are with sleeve and shrink I think you have little chance of making it fit.

An extension would be 6 straight leads, or 8 and would be much neater than trying to deal with the doubles.

Alternatively you could modify the wiring so that the join occurs someway down the cable by using some 20awg or 18awg cable and some minifit terminals.