mnem, that big copper cooler fan would be almost completely quiet in even the worst Texas suck, right ?
Yup. There's a reason I haven't given it up in almost a decade.
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@mnem, what is the advantage in having your cabling sleeved? Personally I don't get it apart from the appearance and that said, I spend my time looking at the monitor and not the PC. All I'm really worried about is keeping the airflow through my PC as unrestricted as I possibly can.
Sleeved cabling became popular with "Tweakers" and the "OC Crowd" because the look and because it provides chafe-resistance for people who are constantly fucking around with their build. As a result, it is now the de facto "standard" for high-end PSUs.
Oh, and quite honestly, because it has been marketed by PSU manufacturers because it is cheap as hell to implement in mass production; you can use the cheapest vinyl-clad tin-plated wires and still make a PSU "Upscale" and color-coordinated by adding a dime's worth of PET braiding.
https://youtu.be/HkB-GNEt9FkRight now the hot ticket is custom-length individually sleeved FAT wires for modular power supplies. As in each conductor in your 6-8 pin GPU wiring and your MB wiring has its own extra fat (usually still 18ga, but fat so it looks mo' bettah) sleeved wire, and then THOSE are organized with wire looms so they look like spark plug wires on a street rod. There is a whole industry around this shit; it's insane. We're talking about people spending a couple hundred or more for a fully modular power supply, then ANOTHER $300-400 for these fucking cables.
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For me, it's probably more nostalgia than anything; I used to be in the "Case Modder" crowd back when it was just guys in their garages with Dremels and maybe evening access to a high-school machine shop putting windows and LED lighting and such inside to "glam it up".
So yeah, I "get" sleeving to tidy up; but I don't mind the occasional "snake swallowed a rat" lump if that's the price of getting everything where I want it to be.
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