Gadgetory

we all knew this was gonna happen someone somewhere was going to invent something that shouldn't have been invented science was going to go too far and it looks like today is that day this is an early sample of the Lele streamer streamer streamer straw I'm gonna go with Strymon an RGB 24-pin power supply cable I fix its protec toolkit gives you the tools you need to tackle any electronics repair challenge visit ifixit.com forward slash linus at the link below and get yours today I have been sent pretty much no information about this whatsoever all I know is that it's RGB and it's one of the only components of the modern computer that was still safe a cable how do you make a cable RGB lit I mean they've done RGB water cooling fittings but that like kinda makes sense because you can illuminate like a thing that's sitting there but an RGB cable okay now they're just messing with me we got like a box within a box there's probably nothing even in here though to be clear this is not the finished packaging nor is it the finished product but they are apparently looking to launch this at Computex 2018 so what do we got here this looks like some kind of a controller board this fool this definitely has some hand soldering stuff going on here you can see that this molex only has three pins in it presumably because they don't need 12-volt power and then they've actually bridged that pin to that okay this is a power lead for the RGB cable itself and then we got three buttons back here no documentation so we're just going to have to experiment to find out what they do this is the RGB cable extension so they haven't found a way to retrofit your existing power supply to make it full RGB but they've got this this harness here that you can plug your existing one into so you got 12 kind of optical translucent doodads here you've got some LEDs within this casing here and then it looks like the whole thing sits on here all right well let's start by plugging it all right so the idea is that whatever color your power supply cables are they would all be hidden away you'd plug in this guy so there's nothing inherently RGB about the cables themselves let's plug in this guy so it looks like there's some kind of daisy chain system where you can plug this controller board into your first RGB cable thing and then you can plug another one into that or something Oh doesn't look like they thought that one through I mean it is prototype but like how am I supposed to get a connector in there apparently they're considering changing it out for a SATA connector anyway which i think would probably be a good idea oh that's fragile cool that is a that is not a reinforced this is this is very prototype okay this housing is not on here very well yep right okay okay I can't quite tell what the pattern is right now is it me wiggling this wire it's making it poop you got you got to be kidding me okay that cannot be intentional there we go okay so it's a loose contact in their very prototype 10 out of 10 prototype okay oh it clips on to the cable combs not to the cables themselves so so far the wiring is fragile and it's a pain in the butt to install so what we're gonna do is we're gonna hide away our regular cable and we're gonna experience the effect we're gonna have to kill the light some more it's not that bright how's that okay let's try some of the different modes here I think I'm changing colors right now okay let's try this other button none of them were labeled so I'm just kind of guessing right now hey that one's pretty cool look who you imagine being the engineer who's like I went to school for eight years and they have me designing RGB animations on a cable and I'm not even mad I'm just disappointed I think alex is gonna need this for his rave PC holy crap there's so many modes really cool oh you would say that every game that is awesome are you just trying to like know what's so cool annoy people right now it's really cool like imagine all the cables being like that can I like take a dump on your parade a little bit it's not actually the cable it's just a piece that sits on top of it still like it yeah all right so all that's left now then is to determine how much it affects performance so we fired up the Unigine Valley benchmark and and haha I'm just kidding in conclusion I'm a little disappointed in the mechanism I had kind of imagined that like RGB water cooling fittings we were gonna have an RGB element within the housing of the cable over here where it connects to your stock cable and the LEDs we're gonna be in there and then the actual sleeving of the wires was gonna be some kind of like fiber optic element or something like that and and the sleeving itself would glow that was sort of my expectation and I'm sure someone's gonna do that at some point but if you're into that kind of look like ed and you want your cables to have something near them if nothing else that glows RGB with a bazillion and one animations then I guess mission accomplished Lindley we have no idea how much they're gonna cost and we have no idea where you're gonna get them or what availability looks like for PCI Express or 8-pin connectors but there you have it a world's first RGB 24 pin computer power cable for better or for worse the master op fostex TRX zero zero mahogany headphones are a closed back pair featuring a magnesium alloy frame fostex is signature biodynamic driver's and a very well reviewed sound signature they come with a removable cable a carrying pouch and a two-year warranty and you can check them out on mass drop at the link below so thanks for watching guys if you disliked this video you can hit that button he'll if you just like RGB lighting you can hit that button but if you liked the video hit the like button get subscribed or maybe consider checking out where to buy the stuff we featured at the link in the video description sit down there's our merch store which has cool shirts like this one and our community 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