 Is that guy really reviewing cables again? Will he be slamming them for being snake oil? Will he be pretending they give him special powers? Will he be climbing over the roof of his garage? No, none of those things today. It's just a straight-up video on some straight-up replacement modular cables for your PC power supply. The C-Series from CableMod. Save on select Intel Core i7 processors and 730 series SSDs with instant rebates during Valentine's week, February 14th to 21st, 2015. Click now to learn more. So my initial discussion with the CableMod guys was pretty straightforward. They asked if I'd review their cables. I said, yeah, sure, they look interesting. They asked what color I'd like, and I said all of them. And they were like, what? And so I repeated myself, I would like all of them. And they were like, look, we're not gonna, we're not sending you enough to equip you and all your friends with a set of cables. I mean, someone has to actually buy these things at some point. And I was like, no, I plan to hoard them all for myself. And there was kind of silence on the other end of the phone line for a little while, followed by like, what could you possibly need 12 different color sets of cables for? And while I argued valiantly for the necessity of having them all on hand, just in case I was in the mood to change my color scheme at some point in the future, it was in vain. They did send me all of the colors to show you guys, but I only got full sets of a few of them and just one of each of the rest. So what in the devil are these, Denball? It's been fashionable for quite some time, and we have a local Vancouver gentleman, who goes by the name of Charles to mostly thank for the popularization of this, to individually sleeve each wire in a 24-pin, 8-pin, 6-pin, or however many pin cable for aesthetics. And it's a purely aesthetic play, by the way, since it actually makes the wires bulkier from an airflow perspective, compared to having them on their own or bundling them together with a single sleeve. The problem with individual sleeving is that it's extremely expensive and time-consuming to source the quality materials and tools that you need to do it, then actually do it. Seriously, it takes a long time. So for most people who aren't going to make custom cables and just want to sleeve the standard ones that would normally be included with their power supply, an aftermarket prepackaged solution is a nice little time saver. Although this isn't the first such product, NZXT's approach early on in this trend was to offer extensions for any power supply cable. These had the benefit of excellent compatibility, but the drawback of additional resistance on every wire, and they required the user to find somewhere to tuck away and hide the rest of what was otherwise already a full-length cable. Corsair actually provides pre-individually sleeved cable kits for some of their fully modular power supplies, but the sleeving they use isn't that great, and it's only available in a few different colors. Although on the other side of the spectrum, there are some custom shops online that you can order made-to-order cables from, but not everyone is comfortable with that, and although the selection is unlimited, they can get very expensive. So cable mods tries to bridge the gap, I guess. They use paracord-type sleeving that they brand as Mod Flex, which means it's extremely flexible, it's softer, and IMO nicer looking than the traditional sleeving materials, and it doesn't allow any of the color of the wire to be seen through it. It's actually very similar to what Silverstone uses on the cables on this power supply that I declared to be the best I'd ever seen for modular cables a couple of years ago, but they don't have the same cost associated with them that a custom one does. Another nice touch, actually, is that they don't use any heat shrink. You know, that kind of plastic stuff on the end of every sleeve that holds it in place? This gives every wire an extremely clean look as it goes into the connector. Or at least all of that is all the stuff that Cable Mod claims on their website. I wouldn't be much of a reviewer if I didn't spend some time validating all of this, so I took my C-Series cables, which means I had to use a Corsair AXI, HXI, or RM-Series power supply, and I built myself a little system here. They do have the right pinouts available for other popular power supplies, from Corsair EVGA and Seasonic, and apparently more colors coming, but this is what we've got for now. So, as advertised, the cables plug into the things and make your system look subjectively better. If I had to come up with a complaint, it would be that not enough ponies galloped past me while I was building the system with the Cable Mod cables. That would be a massive improvement, which leads us pretty well into the conclusion that practically writes itself. If you're into hot-rodding your PC and having it look all, you know, sweet, and you don't feel like sleeving your cables yourself, something that some people are into but most find tedious and bothersome, then Cable Mod delivers the goods. Enthusiast-grade individually sleeved cables. And I guess that's pretty much it. Speaking of enthusiast-grade parts, today's episode's sponsor is Sapphire Technology, a brand new one here on Linus Tech Tips. Now, obviously, you've all heard of Sapphire because of their Vaporex video cards and other products like that. 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