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is that guy really reviewing cables again will he be slamming them for being snake oil will he be pretending they give him special powers will he be climbing over the roof of his garage no none of those things today is just a straight-up video on some straight-up replacement modular cables for your PC power supply the C series from cable mod save on select intel core i7 processors and 730 series SSDs with instant rebates during Valentine's week February 14th to 21st 2015 click now to learn more so my initial discussion with the cable wad guys was pretty straightforward they asked if I'd review their cables I said yeah sure they look interesting they asked what color I'd like and I said all of them and they were like what and so I repeated myself I would like all of them and they were like look we're not gonna we're not sending you enough to equip you and all your friends with a set of cable I mean someone has to actually buy these things at some point I was like no I plan to horde them all for myself then there was kind of silence on the other end of the phone line for the while followed by Lego what could you possibly need 12 different color sets of cables for and while I argued valiantly for the necessity of having them all on hand just in case I was in the mood to change my color scheme at some point in the future it was in vain they did send me all of the colors to show you guys but I only got full sets of a few of them and just one of each of the rest so what in the devil are these dead-ball it's been fashionable for quite some time and we have a local Vancouver gentleman who goes by the name of Charles to mostly thank for the popularization of this to individually sleeve each wire in a 24 pin 8 pin 6 pin or our mini pin cable for aesthetics and it's a purely aesthetic play by the way since it actually makes the wires bulkier from an airflow perspective compared to having them on their own or bundling them together with a single sleeve the problem with individual sleeving is that it's extremely expensive and time-consuming to source the quality materials and tools that you need to do it then actually do it seriously it takes a long time so for most people who aren't going to make custom cables and just want to sleeve the standard ones that would normally be included with their power supply an aftermarket prepackaged solution is a nice little time saver although this isn't the first such product NZXT x' approached early on in this trend was to offer extensions for any power supply cable these had the benefit of excellent compatibility but the drawback of additional resistance on every wire and they required the user to find somewhere to tuck away and hide the rest of what was otherwise already a full-length cable course there actually provides pre individually sleeved cable kits for some of their fully modular power supplies but thus leaving they use isn't that great and it's only available in a few different colors although on the other side of the spectrum there are some custom shops online that you can order made to order cables from but not everyone is comfortable with that and although the selection is unlimited they can get very expensive so cable mods tries to bridge the gap I guess they use paracord types leaving that they brand as mod flex which means it's extremely flexible it's softer and imo nicer looking than the traditional sleeping materials and it doesn't allow any of the color of the wire to be seen through it it's actually very similar to what silverstone uses on the cables on this power supply that i declared to be the best I'd ever seen for modular cables a couple of years ago but they don't have the same cost associated with them that a custom one does another nice touch actually is that they don't use any heat shrink you know that kind of plastic stuff on the end of every sleeve that holds it in place this gives every wire an extremely clean look as it goes into the connector or at least all of that is all the stuff that cable mod claims on their website I wouldn't be much of a reviewer if I didn't spend some time validating all of this so I took my C series cables which means I had to use of course their ax i HX i or RM series power supply and I built myself a little system here they do have the right pin notes available for all their popular power supplies from Corsair EDG a and C sonic and apparently more colors coming but this is what we've got for now so as advertised the cables plug into the things and make your system look subjectively better if I had to come up with a complaint it would be that not enough ponies galloped past me while I was building the system with the cable mod cables that would be a massive improvement which leads us pretty well into the conclusion that practically writes itself if you're into hot rodding your PC and having it look all you know shweet and you don't feel like sleeping your cables yourself something that some people are into but most fine tedious and bothersome then cable Maude delivers the goods enthusiast great individually sleeved cables and I guess that pretty much it speaking of enthusiast grade parts today's episode sponsor is sapphire technology a brand new one here on Linus tech tips now obviously you've all heard of sapphire because of their vapor-x video cards and other products like that in fact those are the ones that we used for the autobahn hammer their eight gig graphics cards that we drove our triple wide 34 inch monitor thing was but what you might not know is that they have a YouTube channel where they host all types of content for PC enthusiasts like you and me their new series that we're highlighting today is called not from concentrate a PC build slash mod slash art piece series that highlights a bit of an off-the-wall build from Josh sniffing they've been posting videos in the series for a few weeks now and the finale just went up last night so the whole mod is available to view right now 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