Monday, January 23rd 2012
Corsair Readies Individual-Sleeved PSU Modular Cables
Individual-sleeved replacement PSU cables are the in-thing with enthusiasts and case-modders now, thanks to the appealing "organic" look that they bring into cases. There are quite a few companies that have taken interest in it. These are sets of cables for PSUs in which each individual cable is sleeved, rather than a bunch of them. This also allows modders to create patterns using differently colored cable sleeves. Corsair jumped into the fray with upgrades for its Professional (HX series) and Professional Gold (AX series) modular PSUs. These cables will be available in black, red, blue, and white colors. Corsair put up product pages of these under the PSU accessories section. A high-end gaming PC using these cables was pictured by Legit Reviews. These cables are available in complete kits, their prices range between US $79.99 to $99.99.
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Legit Reviews
23 Comments on Corsair Readies Individual-Sleeved PSU Modular Cables
The sleeving and heatshrinking is no where close to what you could get even from Bitfenix, looks like the NZXT sleeving to some extent. I aint paying 70-90 USD for that crap.
I rather pay a little more or less to individuals who can do that for me, or do it myself.
If it was something more reasonable, like say, $30. I'd be all over it.
Quality is still unknown really. The trend now is to have no heatshrink, but these look to have the same amount of heatshrink as ModRight extensions. If that is any indication of what to expect from these cables, we should all just stick to BitFenix, NZXT, or other custom solutions.
Out of all of them, the AX1200 bundles look to be the best value.
i think sometimes you should wait a few days and stuff like this shows up :eek:
well i might be not as good as MDPC sleeves but you dont have the work ......
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Wait, how about triple sleeving...
Now if they just had a short cable set, like silverstone!
At least those normally overly 'fat' cables (24pins to mobo) could benefit from single line sleeving, to tidy the cables.
Then why make them pretty if 80% of that cables goes into hiding?
You should show 'em all. I know I'll show em all if I buy em.
It takes a lot of time to manually sleeve a PSU, the price is well justified imo.
As for and possible improvement in flow of electricity or RFI there’s only a few wires in the loom those loom that could benefit from insulation in high powered PSU builds, and then that is done with RFI shielding not Nylon Chinese fingers. While the biggest issue from high power PSU that have good quality wire and insulation coatings, just shift those problem to the crap connectors and terminal interface still in use today.
Remembering back several years ago, round IDE cable were all the rage, reducing the congestion caused by flat ribbon cables, and touted as beneficial to improved chassis airflow.
Now, it appears we are back to wide, flat cables.
I like sleeved cables, but bundled to minimized surface area, not individual conductors.
I suppose I am more about performance than appearance...
Less is more IMHO
Putting lipstick on a pig...for just under a c-note is how I read the article.
Glad my last Corsair psu is holding out. It's an HX520w, love the damn thing, but it's been downhill sliding ever since.
I guess you can't fake high quality...
LC