Show Us Your Rig [5]

ganjiry said:

Lady Fitzgerald said:

This the cable I made the other day for my new sound card. It looks good here but not so great once installed because the bends occurred on the heat shrinks. I'm tempted to do it over, leaving some wire exposed between the shrinks and the connectors to make the 90° bends easier.

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Bad as it looked installed, it looks better than the stock cable I had temporarily installed.

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This a shot of the sound card installed with the new cable.

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It's a pity one can only see the PCB of cards from a normal viewing angle since they usually look cooler from the side you can't see.

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I'm still waiting for the front panel audio cable extension to be delivered so I can reroute the front panel cable and connect it to the sound card.

You've done a nice job of the sleeving fairplay!
Would stripping just a couple of mm from the end of the heatshrink not help? as it would save you having to do it all again but leave enough cable exposed to bend it more.

Thanks!

I thought about that but it would leave the cable too long. I use superglue on the sleeve and shrink so they won't slip on the wire so it would have to be completely redone (although I can reuse the connector bodies; I have the tools for removing pins). If I do redo it, it won't be for a while; I have other things to do with my time. Oh well, live and learn. At least, I already have the materials on hand.

Britton30 said:

Good work Jeanie and Kent.
Lady F you should take some sequential pics when you make up cables and sleeve them along with the tools used.

Thanks!

I would do that but I have only two hands and need them both when making up the cables. There are plenty of YouTube videos on cable sleeving floating around.

Forgive my curiosity but why is the GPU in the next to bottom PCI-e slot?

Looking good!

Solarstarshines said:

Lady Fitzgerald said:

Forgive my curiosity but why is the GPU in the next to bottom PCI-e slot?

Looking good!

waiting for my other Gpu in the mail had to do a RMA

Doh! That should have been obvious to me.