cebupwnsall

So yeah, my first post ever in this blog. Hopefully this is going to be my primary blog and won’t get wiped again due to lack of teamwork(hahaha). I’m planning to make a post a day so check my blog daily(except weekends, hahaha). I make sure you guys will like what I write. Anyways, no fancy skins for the meanwhile. Because I may not maintain the template properly so lets use the predefined template for the meanwhile.

Thanks vern/Redeuxx for setting my blog. My appreciation.

Okay, So I’ll start my post with my experience from sleeving my rig for the previous 4 days. Not just the experience but also a review on Fine Upgrades’(Hello Sir Ryan) Cable Sleeving Kit.

The Review - Fine Upgrades’ Cable Sleeving Kit
So this is the Cable Sleeving Kit from Fine Upgrades. Costs 390 but CBX Sold me 430. So Sad they didn’t follow SRP

I picked black and got different sizes of sleeves and heat shrinks. A problem I need to note you is that not all the heat shrinks pair up with the sleeves depending how thick the cables are in your power supply. The bigger heat shrinks won’t shrink to fit in the bigger sleeves. This means you have to buy heat shrinks of the right size for your sleeves. A meter of heat shrink costs around 20-25 pesos in electrical shops found in downtown Cebu which is enough for your shrinking needs. Sometimes a meter is too much but its worth keeping in the future. A pack of heat shrinks costs 79-94 pesos in Ace Hardware. I do not suggest buying from Ace Hardware since it is too expensive for a meter and all of it won’t be used though.

I have no problems with the sleeve sizes. One size fits all though. I have no idea whats the use of the extra zip ties but you can make use of it if you run out of heat shrinks and the heat shrink you are using is too loose. I did this on my 24-pin connector when the heat shrink didn’t shrink too well or too tight.

The Sleeving
I took off my Generic 500w PSU from my acrylic casing and started picking the pins using a pair of staple wires and mini flat screw driver. Used a masking tape to wrap the pins in their correct order. Shot a picture on the pins so the picture will remember the pin placements for me and wallah! Finished removing the pins. Sorry but I didn’t use any molex removal tools. Just purely improvised tools. As quoted by poldopunk(hello there!), “Universal Molex Removal Tools” only using a pair of staple wires and a hairpin(hahaha). But with all of the effort of removing the pins, I got injured. Got 2 cuts in my finger while removing a pin from the 4 pin connector. That injury is the price of using improvised tools rather than using the recommended tools. Bad for me but im fine

Take note of my finger that has a band-aid in it.

Three days after sleeving.

So I stuffed the sleeves into the wires and it was a breeze. I made sure I was using the right sleeve size on the wires. The first try on each of the sizes available was easy, the succeeding was annoying. Even if you burn the tip of the sleeve properly and insert the sleeves, the tip of the sleeves move away from each other and breaks away from the group of the sleeves. So be very careful on sleeving because they might screw up.

(PS: I can’t find a better way to describe it. I know a better term for that but I just can’t f*cking remember the word. Guys who can come up with a better word can mail me so I can edit it. Hahaha.)

Sleeving the shorter wires is very annoying. Just like what I’ve said ago regarding the sleeves breaking away, the shorter the sleeve you are cutting, the more susceptible it is on breaking away.

But aside from the problems of the sleeves, heatshrink and removing the pins, I got this:

It’s just beautiful to look at the sleeves. Its a repetitive work but the effort was worth it. I compared what my rig looked like before sleeving and after. I was amazed of the results. Cable Management was easier to do since the wires are sleeved. I kept the unnecessary wires behind my motherboard and my rig was so clean to look at.

This is a shot taken from behind the rig. This is what I did for the cable management:

It was nice afterall. I won’t rate the item, its just nice, really nice. Can’t say more. Ending this post now

Thanks for reading my first post! More to come!

PS: Congrats Sir Ryan on your Newborn Baby! And thanks for approving our dealership form to your company! My next post would be my experience on visiting your company

Modding and Reviews fine upgrades, first post, heat shrink, modding, sleeving