 This video is brought to you by CM Storm, preferred choice of mice headsets and mechanical keyboards of Curse Gaming. Visit www.coolermaster-usa.com slash team underscore curse for more details. Welcome to an unboxing of something that's actually a little bit tricky to find, because you can't just go to the local Best Buy and buy Ice Mods lighting products, but uh... Mundi from Ice Mods reached out and sent over a couple of his, okay it's Ice Mods with a Z, a couple of his Ice Mods lights, so one of them is UV, and the other one is a clear one, he's also got some other cool new stuff coming, so he's adding black PCBs, he's adding um... sort of multi-colored ones, which are going to be pretty cool as well. So basically really small company, you can order from them directly based in Iceland or something I believe. So we're going to go ahead and check out what he sent over for us to take a look at. Now one of the other things that Ice Mods does is cable sleeving, so I'm expecting the sleeving on these to be absolutely exceptional, and it looks like my expectations are pretty much 100% dead on. That is some of the shmexiest sleeving I've ever seen on a product that comes out of the box. You can't see through it at all, it is an extremely tight weave and it's multi-colored, so there's actually a gray strip, a black strip, a gray strip, a black strip. He's also done a really good job, I can see here, of covering up the way that the cable itself is attached to the LED strip. Now Ice Mods isn't the only company in the world to do LED strips, but I can tell you right now based on my experience with the the phobia ones, which are not attached very securely, like you could probably go like this, and if you did that maybe four or five, six times, you could probably break them off pretty consistently, whereas these strips have much larger contact pads for soldering, so yeah that's a good thing. Also the way that he's achieved his waterproofness is by adding, there we go, a silicone looks like sleeve over top. Personally I find I prefer to take those off since I'm not usually going to be immersing the LED strips in water, but you can see how that's sealed around the edges and then this is sealed around the edges as well. So white PCB for now, so I want to go ahead and show you guys the rig that, thanks Rumble, the rig that I'm going to be installing these in. So I'm going to do the UV one on top up here so that I get some nice UV glow from the tubing. You can see these are quite long strips, I believe these are 45 centimeters, whatever, they're pretty long so you can see how long they are. They're about sort of a linus elbow to fingertip in terms of the actual length. So let's go ahead and light them up. Okay this rig needs a power adapter, yes. I'll do something with the cable management later, but okay we got a little, he included one adapter for me, I'm assuming if you actually buy them you get an adapter with each one. So let's go ahead and plug this bad boy in and it doesn't work. No I'm just kidding, computer's not on. That's always the first thing you want to check. Very nice, extremely bright UV effect so you can see even in the daylight of this room, just installing the strip in the top, what I'll probably have to do is get it so it doesn't go right over the radiator, gives us a strong UV glow from all of that blue tubing in there. That looks really nice actually. So even from a distance of about here you can see UV, not UV, UV, not UV. I would definitely recommend getting some distance between the UV strip and the items that you want to fluoresce. And then the other thing is as well you don't want to position this such that you're going to see it through the actual case because they're pretty much like painful to look at, they're extremely bright as is true of many of these UV strips that are available out there. So the other one we have here is nice long sleeved cables on these as well, that was one of the other issues I had with the other ones that I had used in my own rig. They had very very short cables on them so those are, wow, yeah you're not even going to be able to look at these but I think, okay well here, so without them and then like with them. So go ahead and put that down here where I would probably position it. You can actually cut them to length which is sort of neat. I'll show you that on this one. So there should be scissor marks on here somewhere. Oh hold on, I don't know if this one, yep okay. So at all of these spots it looks like you can cut them off. So you can cut them to whatever length you want and that is true of the white one as well although it's marked in a slightly different way so there's an actual scissor line on there so you can cut that off. So I won't be able to use probably the full length so I'll go along the bottom with the white and then I want some UV in the top so I'm going to have to cut probably one or two segments off of this guy. Let's go ahead and plug that back in so we can see what the case lighting will look like. LED strips are so much more practical than cathodes for a couple of reasons. So number one is that they are much lower profile. Number two is you don't have to have a large bulky inverter to convert from 12 volt DC to 120 volt AC and actually I don't even know if it's 120 volt AC but it's AC for sure. I have no idea what voltage it's running at but I think that's pretty much it. Thanks for checking out this unboxing. Oh I think he includes adhesive strips but they might have fallen out of the envelope when I was fussing around with them so yeah those those are included too. 3M adhesive. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos.