Lian Li Strimer Plus 24-pin & 8-pin

[Darksaber]

The Lian Li Strimer Plus takes the original principle of lighting up your otherwise boring ATX cables with RGB colors. Instead of using the fiber optics principle of lighting each strand at its end, the Strimer Plus employs rows of LEDs for brighter, cooler animations for both the 24-pin and 8-pin cables.

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[DevBiker]

The review (conclusion) states:

you could attach LED strips and fans to it for unison control of your lighting effects inside the chassis

While that's true theoretically, in practicality, it's total hogwash. The RGB output from the Lian Li Strimer Plus is missing the +5V line - it's not providing any power at all to whatever device is connecting to it. As a result, this makes it completely useless for the vast majority of strips and fans out there - they'll be depending on getting the LED's power from the motherboard connection. As the Strimer Plus controller doesn't provide that ... they won't light up. Furthermore, many of the self-powered controllers out there that support a motherboard sync connection use the +5V line to detect the presence of the motherboard cable. If that's missing, they don't switch over to motherboard control mode. So those, also, will not work.
I'm also quite disappointed that no mention at all was made of the JST-PH connectors that they use. These connectors are small and not very durable. In fact, with mine, two of the pins were not securely in the housing; I had to repair them myself to ensure that they stayed in. Fortunately, most folks won't be unplugging and plugging these multiple times - they just won't last many plug/unplug cycles. This is a bug step down from the JST-SM connectors that were used on the original Strimer which, while bulky and ugly, are quite durable.

 

[TechLurker]

My main complaint is that the supporting material and extension cable is white as opposed to black, thus detracting from the light effects in certain lighting. Price isn't as big an issue as that goes down over time.

I do wish that future revisions just straight-up integrate the 24/8 wires into the unit rather than stick with the weird clip on system, allowing it to be a bit thinner and more flexible. That would also allow the RGB strips to come closer to touching the motherboard (when plugged into a 90 degree angled port) or the GPU, and give the illusion of "feeding power" to the mobo, since it would no longer need the clips holding the RGB to the extension cables.

 

[Caring1]

Streamer Plus, yet Strimer is mentioned repeatedly through the article AND in the heading.

 

[Vayra86]

Streamer Plus, yet Strimer is mentioned repeatedly through the article AND in the heading.

Nope, its Lian Li that can't spell

 

[Caring1]

Nope, its Lian Li that can't spell

Chinglish. Nuf said.

 

[Alilll]

So I bought it and I'm doing RGB'em all.
How to sync it with motherbaord RGB? I connected it as explained in the provided connection guide and lights up gorgeously but DOES NOT sync with my mobo RGB at all!
I know the reason is the controller will NOT follow the motherboard sync.
However when I diconnected the 8 pin cable and used the provided adapter with it that has 3 pins it followed all motherboard lights.
The dilemma is the 24 pin cable that does NOT has a similar adaptor. I mean, in order to power up the 24 pin cable RGB I have to use the controller.
I'm looking to find a similar weird adaptor cable to bypass the controller and connected directly to the motherborad 3 pin but I can't find it.
Any advice please?

 

[MrBobbleness]

The review (conclusion) states:

While that's true theoretically, in practicality, it's total hogwash. The RGB output from the Lian Li Strimer Plus is missing the +5V line - it's not providing any power at all to whatever device is connecting to it. As a result, this makes it completely useless for the vast majority of strips and fans out there - they'll be depending on getting the LED's power from the motherboard connection. As the Strimer Plus controller doesn't provide that ... they won't light up. Furthermore, many of the self-powered controllers out there that support a motherboard sync connection use the +5V line to detect the presence of the motherboard cable. If that's missing, they don't switch over to motherboard control mode. So those, also, will not work.
I'm also quite disappointed that no mention at all was made of the JST-PH connectors that they use. These connectors are small and not very durable. In fact, with mine, two of the pins were not securely in the housing; I had to repair them myself to ensure that they stayed in. Fortunately, most folks won't be unplugging and plugging these multiple times - they just won't last many plug/unplug cycles. This is a bug step down from the JST-SM connectors that were used on the original Strimer which, while bulky and ugly, are quite durable.

I'm having problems with the 8 pin extender and I believe its a faulty JST-PH connector. How did you repair yours?