Man, I didn't realise how long this would take, and i haven't even done the whole thing... I got an Antec NeoPower 480 for my next rig...



and even though it has "modular connectors" (meaning you can detach the molex, sata, and pci-e lines) it still looks a mess with all the bare red, yellow, and black cables:



so i've already bought a psu sleeving kit and have the necessary molex and atx pin removal tools, so i thought i'd take the first step towards building my new rig... so this psu comes with a 24-pin atx connector... and a 24-pin to 20-pin adapter (right hand side of picture above)... i can't even begin to think how ugly this would look... so i spared myself the horror and decided to re-wire the atx mobo connector cables into a 20-pin connector... so first i got some tape and some paper and wrote out 1 - 24 and stuck them round the wires so life would be easier later on:



and then i proceeded to remove the atx mobo connector pins... or actually, attempt to remove them... lol, i really didn't know HOW to do it, i had the tool, i knew the theory, but it just didn't seem to work... after much stress and annoyance it turned out i was using the tool on the wrong edges of the pin... i thought i just wasn't pulling the wire hard enough and this happened (successful wire complete with pin on the left, not so successful wire with no pin on the right):



and as luck would have it, it was cable 13... woooOOOoooaaahhh, lol



anyway, it took pure hours to finish this and i couldn't be arsed to stop to faff about taking pictures every 10 minutes, so here's the finished article



the red sleeving is UV reactive and i tried to take a photo of it in the dark under UV but the ccfl tube kinda drowned out the glow so i'll just leave the UV shots til later when it's inside the case

anyway, that's the first part, next is easy, the molex and sata power cables... LOADS easier than those stupid atx mobo connector pins!!!!! yay, i'm pleased with a job well done

It looks great. Watch out for 13 though, it'll bugger you every time.

Cheers Ron... I'm looking forward to all the rest of my modding escapades on my a64 rig... i get the cpu, ram and hd's in a week, so i hope to have the case all pimped out and ready to slap in those last pieces... test drove the tornado on the gatewatch earlier... will have to see if the noise is worth it lol...

Did you get a new case too?

Looks great nrg! doesnt red glow pink under uv?

Great job man, looks good but you know you just voided your warrenty

yeah, a black tsunami... soon to be acquainted with a 114mm holesaw, heh heh (just waiting for that to arrive)... in fact, i just about bought a whole new rig... everything short of a new monitor and keyboard - got an mx510 mouse yay! - might buy a black keyboard... can't really afford a new monitor so might Plastikote my current one black - just need to work out where to spray it, apparently the fumes are pretty intense, like respirator action involved if indoors... dunno, maybe i'll just hold my breath like i always do lol...

roadkill, yeah yeah, very funny... i believe some of the red UV stuff will be pink lol, if that's the case and the WHOLE thing looks pink and black then i think i'll go with that as the theme heh heh

i don't mind pink and black anyway... i might get some UV paints and do some stuff blue, so blue and pink (man i'd prefer red lol)... maybe not like cornflower blue (aka baby blue)...

agh i dunno... it's gonna be UV and it's gonna be p.i.m.p. so i don't care if it's pink!

edit: lol, voided warranty... hopefully it wasn't DOA... it hasn't been hooked up into a rig yet i've tested it with some fans, a fan controller and a ccfl so the molexes work...

Man nice job HardNRQ...I too am gettinga whole new rig for christmas, also in a black tsunami case. I want to make my wires look as neat as possible but psu sleeving seems like it is a little over my head lol! Congrats again on the job well done.

very nice job hardnrg, make sure we get those uv pics once the rig is up and running

the last letter is a "g" not a "q"... pretty much impossible to tell with that underline i know... the mobo connector is by far the biggest ball-ache... the rest is fairly simple... i've used heatshrink (the stuff at the ends of the nylon braiding) before and actually own a 2000W hairdryer so the sleeving part is easy... it's getting the connectors undone and back together the right way that's hard...

you could always get a pre-sleeved psu... my Tt PurePower Butterfly came fully sleeved, every single cable, oh wait, except the fan rpm cable i think, oh, and the fan controller cable... hmm, but apart from that...

my current rig has ended up being pretty much a "first pancake"... you know, the first one is always like pretty much ok, but not quite right, but you know the next one will be dang near perfect...

mmm pancakes...

edit: yeah kurosen, you can count on those final photos being posted... i bought a 3Mpixel camera just for taking pictures of my new rig lol...

i bought a 3Mpixel camera just for taking pictures of my new rig lol...

I have one also and it's pretty much all i do with it

man there is no way i could do that, its way to much time, and i KNOW id fubar somthing up real bad and id be out a good psu and probably a mobo at the same time

Ha, took me like 8 hours to use up a whole vantec sleeving kit. Didn't even finish the dang PSU