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CABLE SLEEVING TUTORIAL PART 1

Maximum PC Vol 25 No 12.

Patience.

LAST ISSUE we went through the main tools that you’re going to need to start creating your very own custom power-supply cabling. Custom cables are by far and away one of the best ways you can make your system shine. You can of course opt to buy those from a 3rd party, such as CableMod, and even some of the PSU manufacturers offer their own sets of custom-sleeved cables, but to really make a build pop, there’s nothing quite like making your own. If you do, you can control every single aspect of that process, from the sleeving colors used, to the length, to whether or not to integrate your own combs—practically everything.

Now that you’ve got the basic tools at hand and know how they operate, it’s time to put these bad boys to work and make some beautiful cables for your perfect PC! It’s important to remember two things when you’re doing this: Firstly, you’re going to need a ton of patience; and more importantly, practice makes perfect. Don’t beat yourself up if it doesn’t go perfectly the first time you do it, and remember to take your time, double-check everything, and make sure your pin-outs are going to the right place. Once that’s all wrapped up you’ll have your very own kick-ass set of cables for your perfect rig. –DAVE ALCOCK & ZAK STOREY

1 PIN OUTS OR PRE-MADE?

Firstly, figure out if you’re going to be sleeving the cables that came with your power supply, or if you’re making your own from scratch. If it’s the former, you can skip many of these steps and head straight to step 7. Otherwise you can start by making the pin-out, either by physically following the cables, searching online, or—the far better way—using a multimeter in continuity mode, and touching each cable at either end until it shows that it’s a circuit that will tell you exactly where each pin/cable goes.

2 24-PIN MOTHERBOARD POWER CABLE