Cable Sleeving Kits-Worth It?

[vincent]

Now then....

a friend of mine suggested that my cables are tad messy [see for yourself below ]

So-he suggested to me..... Cable Sleeving kits

Im wondering if their worth it,or if someone has tried or got them -are they good?

Thnx

[Dark Horse]

Quite good fun although takes a while and isn't as much complicated as fiddly. I'd try routing the cables behind things and tidying away the unused ones. Cheap cables ties and sellotape also work wonders!

[SourceQuench]

If you have the spare time and patience I would say it's worth it. The Vantec "kits" are quite good (enough sleeving for a Tagan PSU at least!). The only other thing that I would suggest if you are going that route is to also buy some heat-shrink that's a similar colour to the sleeving, that way the ends of the sleeving don't look untidy.

Failing that, you can always twist the cables in a "rope" sort of way and then cable tie them - not so pretty but it works.

[Dark Horse]

The vantec kits come with heatshrink the same colour as the sleeving.

[SourceQuench]

Ah you're right, I couldn't remember well because I had to order more since I ran out of the small stuff.

[GingerNinja.net]

I concur with SourceQuench, as I got a "red" Vantec kit to cable my entire Tagan PSU a year ago so it matched my bright orange case. Will take you the best part of an evening but be warned about using a lighter on the heat-shrink as the stuff does catch light or melt if you aren't careful
If your PSU doesn't have quick-release molex connectors, then Vantec also do a colour matching set of those with a molex removal tool as well so would also recommend that.

[johnny02004976]

it does take time but its def worth doing - my case was awash with stray cables and i tidied mine up quite nicely. I cheated on my new PC tho - i bought a hiper modular PSU where the cables come already looking nice and tidy, plus can remove the cables you dont need.

[SourceQuench]

hehe GingerNinja - I found out about the 'shrink burning the hard way
A hairdryer works wonders if you've got the time to spare.

If you have other connectors to do (such as SATA/12V AUX etc.) you can get some from Fleetwood Computers in a range of colours.

[noah]

i sleeved mine recently, i think its worth it. you do need to hide tham all as best you can still though.

here's a quick snap

[Max Tractor]

Before you buy the sleeving kit, I would try a general route/hiding of the cables first, hide them behind the motherboard tray, down the back of the optical drives etc. The vantec kits are alright, never enough heat shrink

[Max Tractor]

A quick shot of mine, note the pci card eww, my rig is screaming for a card, I just sold my gto2, as the new cards are out at the end of the month, have been after a interim card all week, but the crazy prices ppl are paying for 2nd hand 6600gt's are insane.