ZachA

Just out of curiousity where did you get your Industrail hair dryer at?? lol

I ordered everything I needed today to re-wire my whole PSU and should have the goods by Thursday
 
 
4 x Connectx™ T-SATA Female (punch down) - Black (ACR-CB8201) Cap Type End Cap $3.96
1 x Sunbeamtech Power Supply Modding Tool Kit (SB-TOOLKIT) $19.99
5 x Connectx™ Molex 4pin Male Pins, GOLD-plated - 4 Pack (ACR-CB8119) $2.45
5 x Connectx™ Molex 4pin Female connector housing - Black (ACR-CB7525) Molex Pins No Molex Pins $1.95
2 x Connectx™ 6-Pin PCI Express connector housing - Black (ACR-CB4234) $1.58
2 x Connectx™ ATX 24-pin Male connector housing, Black (ACR-CB1219) Molex Pins No Molex Pins $1.98
50 x 0.125 (1/8") PET Cable Sleeving (PET1/8) Sleeve Color Black $14.50
10 x Pro Male 3-Pin Fan Pins - 3 Pack (PINS-4M-PRO) $3.90
5 x Connectx™ Molex 4pin Female Pins, GOLD-plated - 4 Pack (ACR-CB8102) $2.45
10 x Female 3-Pin Pins - 3 Pack (PINS3P) $2.90
5 x Connectx™ Male Molex Housing Black (ACR-CB8539) Molex Pins No Molex Pins $1.95
10 x Connectx™ Female 3-Pin Fan Housing Black (ACR-CB9031) Molex Pins No Molex Pins $3.90
10 x Connectx™ ATX 24 pin Female Pins, GOLD-plated - 24 Pack (ACR-CB8133) $39.90
3 x Connectx™ ATX 20+4-pin Female connector housing, Black (ACR-CB1202) Molex Pins No Molex Pins $3.87
10 x Connectx™ T-SATA Female (punch down) - Black (ACR-CB8201) Cap Type Pass-through Cap $9.90
2 x  Connectx™ PCI-Express 2.0 - 8-pin Female connector housing, Black (ACR-CBXXXX) Molex Pins No Molex Pins $3.98
2 x Connectx™ ATX 8-pin Female connector housing, Black (ACR-CB0618) Molex Pins No Molex Pins $1.58
8 x Connectx™ Low Profile Molex Connector - Punch Down with Cap - Black (ACR-CB8492) Cap Type Pass-through Cap $7.92
10 x Pro Series Male 3-Pin Fan Housing with Hood - Black (CX-M3PIN-BK) Molex Pins No Molex Pins $9.90
4 x Connectx™ Low Profile Molex Connector - Punch Down with Cap - Black (ACR-CB8492) Cap Type End Cap $3.96
50 x 0.125 (1/8") PET Cable Sleeving (PET1/8) Sleeve Color Red $14.50
15 x Connectx™ ATX Male Pins, GOLD-plated - 4 Pack (ACR-CB31021) $6.75
1 x Deluxe Molex Hand Crimp Tool (CRIMPER-DX) $24.95
20 x 0.25 (1/4") PET Cable Sleeving (PET1/4) Sleeve Color Cobra (Red/Black Criss Cross) $11.80
My total came out to be right about $200 for everything, I plan to reuse connecters from my PSU cables that plug into the PSU itself

Crys1s_Gam3r

Thanks guys

edit: lol thanks jingiko!

Jeffro:

wizpug

this is awesome. thank you for this guide!

just a noob

If you don't mind me asking, what is the length of the heatshrink on those extensions? And how far up on the pin is the heatshrink on?

mcochris

Fantastic!  I especially like how you got the heatshrink to be so uniform in length and shrunken size.  I know that's hard to achive!  I'm not a fan of the plastic sleeving, I've mentioned the fiberglass before.  But that's a personal thing.  It kinda buldges up near the connector on some of thoses pics.  That's just the nature of the material when bent, not any dings on your excellent craftsmanship.

You may want to experiment with putting some hot melt glue in the cable end of connector wells.  The glue hides the hole and physically/visually mates the connector to the individual cables.  If you overfill the conenctor hole a little, that can look good.  The glue bulges up a little and looks like the cable is molded to the connector.  I've used this technique on 4-pin molex conenctors and it worked well.  It also helped keep the molex pins centered, I was always having trouble mating connectors becuase the pins didn't line up.  You have to mate the M/F conenctors prior to adding the glue so the the pins are aligned and the glue does not make it ways into an areas that would prevent future connector mating.

I used hot melt because it cured quickly and was thick so it didn't flow much.  If the glue is too fluid (e.g. cheap superglue), it may flow down into the contact pins/sockets.  It worked on the 4-pin molex connectors, but the ATX and PCI connectors may have smaller holes and you may not be able to inject glue into the connector wells.  I used to just stick the point of my glue gun it each of the four corners on each connector well (with wire inserted) and inject some glue.  As the glue cured it would wrap itself around the wire and sink a bit into the well.  When it dried, it looked great.  It worked better than I expected.  I never experienced any problems with the "glued" connectors.

For example, on those PCI power connectors pics you provided, you can see where the heat shrink does not completely hide the transition from sleeving to pin.  The glue trick could hide that.  And it would keep the pins from moving around, so they would always be centered in the connector well, no matter how the cable was flexed.  Like soldiers standing in formation.

Anyway, free ideas, take 'em or leave 'em.  I looked for an sample of my "handy work", but I didn't make that many (it's takes alot of time) and I couldn't find one that's not installed.  If you provide a pay-for service, please PM me.  Thanks again for the wonderful pics!

just a noob

Thank you!(I personally don't like it when people use what I consider to be too much heatshrink[like an inch]). You don't have any issues with it holding, do you?

just a noob

Like, when you go to bend the cable to hide it behind the motherboard tray, the heatshrink won't loose its grip, will it(I suppose this means no hanging from the psu sleeving either then? )