Update #9
So, as promised by Nils, I received the MD-PC sleeves in exactly 14 days. (German precision at work
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As promised, a custom Easter bunny sketch for me.
Also came with a spiffin' good set of stamps! (Not a collector or anything of those sorts, but damn, these a beautiful).
Sleeves in all their glory. Oh look! Some colored ones snuck themselves in there without Nils knowing
Quick mention about quality: the OKGear ones shit themselves in front of the MD-PC ones. So do the Paracord ones. To be very honest, the quality of these is probably the best out there! No wonder everyone uses them. Absolutely worth the 14-day wait and excitement build up! (oh, Anxiety too
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Nonetheless, since I get an extra 9-12m of sleeve, I was able to experiment a little today, and get things moving. Ohk, now before you bring out the critics, please do note, this is my very first time, sleeving any cables. Thus, the extra sleeves help in this case.
Here are the results.
This is the GPU's power connector. As you can probably tell, I couldn't get the heat shrinks to line up properly, but that isn't a problem. I later figured out how to do it absolutely right! That said, the cables that come with the RM 750 have connectors which are slightly longer, so Lutr0's or Nils' tutorials on getting the heat-shrink on didn't quite work well for me. So I had to come up with my own. Now that I have a better understanding, and a good 2-3m from the extras left, I can experiment on another cable once more I suppose, before I go all out on the 24-pin cable.
Now just to compare the MD-PC ones with the (oh, hell NAW!) OKGear ones, here are some shots of the SATA cables I did.
Yep, that's some UV Red sleeving I got. They accidentally shipped that instead of the standard one. Huzzah!
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(Damn it! I still can't get those heat shrinks right, but these were done a week ago. I'll do a spiffin' job next time). The Red one goes to my OS SDD, while the black ones are for the storage and backup drives. I still need to do 2 more of these, before I can call it day on the SATA cables. However, now that I have the MD-PC ones, it should be more fun.
Tomorrow's a Sunday. These MD-PC sleeves couldn't have come at a better time. I'll be taking a shot at the 24-pin ones. The GPU's 8x2 took me approximately 2 hours to complete (wow, that's quite a lot now that I think of it). It probably took long due to how Corsair loops various wires to reduce manufacturing costs. But the 24-pin cables are fairly straight-forward. 1 cable per pin, however, the heads that go in to the PSU itself are split into 2, with various loops. So I'm planning to go with a wider sleeve from the PSU end unto 3/4th of the cable, and from there onwards, do single cable sleeves. I hope I can pull that one off with finesse. Wish me luck!