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so today's video is a little bit different it's one that was inspired by basically my frustration I mean I'm the kind of person who whenever I'm given my case a reach-around ah funny right anyway whenever I'm plugging anything into its backside I like to be able to see what I'm doing and the problem with most cases is that they simply don't have a way in a dark room I mean obviously we've got studio lights in here right now so it's kind of a bad example but in a dark room to see what the heck you're plugging into where so this is a quick and easy DIY solution to that problem also I'm supposed to tease we're going to have a hard pipe water-cooled build vlog coming up pretty soon so stay tuned for that course RHA tigt in each one hundred-eyed GTX liquid coolers improve both the appearance and the cooling performance of your PC click on mud chest Hey look I have of course our logo my shirt click on that to learn more about them all right so the first thing we've got to do in this video is go down on our pcs alright so I'm gonna get down here on all fours and show you guys what the problem usually is so you can see back here there's well for one thing I'm tethered to the wall by this whole room liquid cooling setup thing so let's go ahead and detach here all right there we go NZXT cases have a feature that i've been saying forever every case should have and that's they have a little LED in the top right here and then they have another one down here that illuminates all the rear i/o so the very least even if you can't really get your head in there you can you can kind of you know as long as you can see what you're doing before you dive in then you'll you'll at least know what it is exactly that you're dealing with well again I don't understand why more manufacturers don't do this and I was looking for a simple solution since obviously this is not an MT XT case and as usual Amazon has the answer trust me and it cut all kinds of stuff on amazon.com this one in particular is an LED strip and I wasn't actually looking for quite as much of a pre-done solution as this I thought that I was gonna have to buy just a strip of LEDs and that I was going to have to figure out how to well not figure out so much it's pretty easy they've got solder points on them just like that I was gonna have to hook up some kind of a power source and then solder it to the positive and negative terminals but actually I ended up finding one that was a extremely inexpensive and B even had a USB connector right on it now before you do something like this it's really important to bear in mind that you cannot use just any old LEDs 12 volt LEDs which are the more the more standard voltage that LEDs buy online or what we're also going to run at won't work for exactly what we're doing here now you could power 12 volt LEDs off of a computer in fact most of the LEDs on your cooling fans or on the strips that you run inside your case are going to be 12 volt LEDs but the reason we need 5 volt is because I wanted the there we go I wanted our LED strips to run regardless of whether the system is powered on or not so we're going to go ahead we're going to just kind of figure out exactly where this is going to go and we're going to show you guys a quick before-and-after here this is gonna all you do is cut it off at the length that you want so you'll see it's clearly marked with little with little cut marks so we're going to go ahead and I don't have scissors on me so I guess we're using a no-life oh go on reaching there grab that out yeah that's not okay Oh relatively easily now we have some extra LEDs left over in case we ever wanted to do something like this again it's important again to know that there are 5 volt LEDs now we're gonna go ahead take the adhesive off the back I'll have this linked in the video description you guys often complain that I never say how much things cost in my videos and the reason is that it's always linked in the video description all you have to do is click well and then click and then click again yeah the price always changes except for for me always a dollar alright let's go ahead and alright now you're gonna want to watch out you don't want to accidentally make it so that you can't get at your USB ports or anything so I'm gonna lose no it's not the stickiest pieces I've ever seen so I'm gonna try and get it in there as much as I can I'll get you guys a better view of this I'm probably after which raises the question why bother recording it now at all a lot of really you two guys record everything or posterity yeah alright so we're going to run this all down the side of our top on there and then we're actually going to come out a little bit this is important because we don't want this interfering this B screws here we go and then we're gonna run right down the very edge here there we go alright so we've got it running all down this side here I would recommend normally turning your system off anytime you're making modifications to it now we're gonna do a little bit of now I would normally want to shorten this wire if I was gonna plug it in directly but I'm actually going to show you something I'm gonna do it a little bit different after you're gonna plug this in and just like that amazing our i/o is illuminated and suddenly we are happy people that is some really terrible adhesive on on this LED strip I would recommend replacing that with something else that is just horrendous now the coolest thing about this and the main reason that we went with 5 volt power instead of 12 volt power is this I'm going to shut down the computer because let's face it a lot of the time when you are trying to plug something into the back of a computer it will not be on so the reason 5 volt is important to say a 12 volt is that 12 volt does not run while the system is not powered on whereas 5 volt our system is actually off and the only way to get the light to turn off is to actually power down the system outright power down the power supply even so you can see I turn on the power play boom now I can plug everything easily without about and difficulty then if you don't want to plug into the back of your computer there's actually one step further you can take it and we're going to go ahead and show you guys why I didn't shorten the length of this wire before so this is a cool little doodad that we featured on our handy tech under a hundred series not that long I'm just gonna go ahead and table manage that somewhat recently there we go that is going to make it so we can plug this into a USB header internally it goes from a four pin connector like this to a female USB connector to plug that batboy in plug that in there close it up and there you have it so I think that pretty much wraps this up guys let us know if you like this kind of a format this is something a little bit different that we're doing we always want to want to hear from you turn the computer on just make sure I haven't completely ruined it by now 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