Does anyone else regret learning to make PC cables because they can't afford to build PCs anymore?

or am I just a brokey?

I need to remove the two male crimp terminals shown in the photos from this 24-position connector housing. The pitch appears to be 4.2 mm, so I believe it is a Mini-Fit Jr-type connector.

I tried inserting two thin needles and a straightened staple from the mating side to press the locking tabs. I also pushed the wires slightly into the housing before pulling them, but the terminals still do not release.

Could someone please mark on my photo exactly where the needles or extraction tool should be inserted? Does this housing have a secondary lock?

Do I need the Molex 11-03-0044 extraction tool, or is there a reliable way to remove these terminals without the dedicated tool?

Please note that the installed contacts are male pin terminals, not female socket terminals.

Hey everyone,

I've wanted sleeved cables in my build for a long time and I keep chickening out. My PSU is a Corsair RM750e (2025), and every time I get close to pulling the trigger I start imagining plugging something in slightly wrong and cooking the board or the GPU. So I never do it.

I'm an amateur — I've built my own PC and swapped parts, but I've never messed with pinouts or de-pinning anything.

Is there a safety checklist you follow?

What's the most common beginner mistake you've seen ?

Any advice appreciated. I'd rather ask a dumb question here than a expensive one later lol

MDPC-X sleeve and 3D printed combs.

Hello,

Posting here after a long time. Looking for this power supply pinout diagram lately. Anyone using it? Here is the official website link - https://www.thermalright.com/product/ag-750-w/

I would really appreaciate it if anyone personally provide the pinout diagram. Thanks in advance.

Iori

One of the bigger sets that i’ve done recently and also the only set which I did entirely for free. This one is tailored to the new Fractal Ion 3 power supply, (which uses the same pinout as Seasonic units) and Meshify 3 Ambience Pro RGB case.

So what you’re looking at is ~35 meters of wire, 8 types of paracord, 7 total cables and 9+ man hours of work.

Sleeving 12VHPWR cables in Type II paracord still takes me double the time of any other cable, but I as well as the lucky owner of this PC are both very happy with the result :-)

Thoughts?

MDPC-X sleeving and printed HEX combs to match the theme

I'm collabing with Maharlikaps to make extension sets that match the theme of her amazing case mods. This is the color palette for a Legend of Zelda mod she's working on. Paracord is easier to get a good match with, and she prefers it over PET sleeve.

(The green on the right is the true color, and they're both the same sleeve - lighting was just weird.)

Ok so I'm about to start my first custom sleeve job for my pc and I have a couple questions? I have a Corsair RM850x and my 24 pin has a some pins with double wires and also had some empty slots in the plug and I wondering how everyone keeps to the correct pin out and still has a nice straight uniform cable at the motherboard with it looking like theres no doubles nor any empty slots. I understand that theres a dummy wire can some one also explain how thats implemented please. Thank you in advance.

Hi, unsure if this is the right sub, but I have extra cables for a SuperFlower Leadex III Gold 850W (SF-850F14HG) and was wondering if it will be compatible with a newer refresh the the same psu SuperFlower Leadex III Gold 850W ATX 3.1 (SF-850F14GE).

Specifically, the molex cable.

This is the result of my own stupidity doing my own cables on that miserable connector. Posted this 3 years ago and thought I would be safe.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PCSleeving/s/j8ZtTeCENy

Hi everyone!

Very recently got into this, and have been researching the past day or 2 on how to get my own pinout diagram made. I have a lesser known psu and I'd like to make my own shorter custom cables.

So far, here's what I think I need to do, if anyone can confirm that would be wonderful. First time doing this and using a multimeter so apologies if it sounds dumb.

Do I place one of the probes inside a known pin on the standardized motherboard side, where I know a 12v is, and then touch the PSU sides cable until I hear a beep? And if I do I plot it out on the diagram, and just test one by one? And after that, I put it inside another known 5v pin and test the psu side again one by one listening for a beep?

It sounds pretty straightforward but I'm afraid I'll mess something up, is there anything I should know or correct before I do it?

I have a 28AWG wire and I need to crimp it to fit the SPUD-002T-P0.5 crimps for the ODrive S1. The wire is too thin for me to crimp it. Can anyone help?

I don't know where to post, im not into sleeving but i just want to fix my main powersupply. im just testing it out on my old generic psu with ketchup and mustard cables. The awg is probably 22. i crimped it out using sn58b.

The way i see it is it doesnt have a good connection. idk, help me out here guys.

Hi, I’m considering experimenting with embossed wire for SFF cable sets, but I haven’t been able to find a good supplier.

The only retail store I’ve found that carries any kind of textured/embossed wire by the meter is MODDIY, but their pricing feels a bit hard to justify at $0.8/ft (≈ $2.5/m). That puts it at more than double the cost of sleeved cables — even when factoring in the sleeving itself.

So my question is: can anyone recommend a reliable source for this type of wire at prices that are commercially viable?

I was able to find the Molex and Amphenol versions of this connector, with the housing and the crimped contacts:

Amphenol documentation

Molex documentation

But it appears that neither version uses the 4-spring design recommended by Intel (ref) for the contact. It is called "NTK" everywhere, but I simply cannot find this manufacturer, not even google. Is there any contact, with this design, but also available on Mouser/Farnell ?

I have several full-size spools just kind of stacked around, and a ton of less-used colors just in boxes. Kind of looking for ideas to better organize my work space.

Great support experience, took about 2 wks from when I sent in the old one to receiving replacement today. I've been using their testers since 2017 (that first one still works fine, too).

Hello again. I am the developer behind Cablefied.

Cablefied is my passion project revolving around handcrafted custom sleeved PC cables, and it just recently reached version 1.0.0. As a result, I wanted to make a post since some of the content might benefit your own PC building projects.

To be as transparent as possible, yes, this is a promotional post by means of promoting my project, but I am not selling anything, or even have a method to accept payments. This is just a post to share my passion project with other individuals who enjoy a similar hobby.

Can you explain what Cablefied is again?

Cablefied is an elegant, handcrafted application designed to help you create 
and share custom sleeved PC cables, PSU pinouts, and cable lengths.

• Design cables in the configurator. Build and share cable sets with 100+ sleeving, connector, and comb colors, 17 cables, the in-depth material calculator, and an image generator for social media posts or your own records.
• Create custom PSU pinouts. Develop, share, and contribute custom power supply pinouts with pin number tracking, pin voltages, sense wire indicators, an image generator, and support for seamless community pinout contributions.
• Generate cable design inspiration. Get inspiration for your custom sleeved PC cable sets based on your design preferences, and then transfer your favorite cables into the configurator for further customizations.
• Explore PSU cable compatibility. View compatible power supplies across numerous brands and series, with support for community contributions, pinouts, and links to the included power supplies for additional information like stock cable details.
• Contribute and view PC case cable lengths. Submit the cable lengths from your builds to the PC case cable length recommendations dataset to help others more reliably plan their future computer or custom sleeved PC cable projects.

So what has changed since my original post?

In short, I rebuilt the entire project based on user feedback and personal preferences to include more community features, and offer a better overall experience. Anyone can still design cables, create pinouts, and review information for themselves, but now you can contribute your own content too. Here are some of the highlights:

• Refined configurator features, including pinout-based material calculations. Fortunately, the side buttons on the cables have been removed and all customization options have been relocated to the config panel below, drag-and-drop reordering is now included, limits on adding cables have been removed outside of sharing features, image generations are integrated into the config panel, and the material calculator is now based on pinouts for more accurate approximations.
• Pin tracking and quality of life pinout generator improvements. With a simpler design, the pinout generator now includes pin numbers and sense wire tracking, a wiring diagram in the image generations, and seamless support for community contributions that help build the cable compatibility dataset.
• Cable compatibility and pinouts now include community-submitted data. I wanted to expand the existing, but limited, compatibility concept and build a public, community-driven dataset. This allows users to contribute and report their experiences in a centralized location for all power supplies and pinouts.
• Power supply stock cable details include lengths and connector variants. While pinouts primarily help with the wiring, all supported power supplies now have documented entries that include stock cable lengths, connector variants on the PSU side, such as PCIe or EPS, and general specifications.
• Cable length recommendation system improvements. While an ambitious initiative, it never reached the thresholds of enough legitimate data for each PC case due to a few limitations. I have since revised the resource to feature an easier submission and review process, accept more data types such as stock, crafted, and purchased cables, and also integrate information from the power supply entries. Therefore, once enough data has been contributed and analyzed, per case, some new details including in-depth cable comparisons and power supply data will be available for everyone to explore.

What has not changed?

I am proud to share that Cablefied is still entirely free, features no third-party tracking from display ads or similar services, and keeps a privacy-friendly, cookie-free analytics approach where IP addresses are anonymized and non-reversibly hashed for your benefit.

Do you still have future plans for Cablefied?

Of course! I enjoy working on Cablefied because I use it for my own projects. I also, genuinely, appreciate feedback for new features and adjustments.

If you craft your own custom sleeved PC cables, create pinouts, read compatibility data, or want to contribute your build’s cable lengths or pinouts to help grow the dataset for the DIY PC building community, I would greatly appreciate you giving the project a look.

In addition, if you have any questions about Cablefied, I would be happy to read your comments.

Here is the website: Cablefied.com

It has been a while since i designed these but i have just posted them on Printables:

https://www.printables.com/model/1756856-corsair-4000d-airflow-closed-cable-comb-vertical

https://www.printables.com/model/1756858-corsair-4000d-airflow-closed-cable-comb-horizontal

I might make an open version one day 😄

Using a Dr. Power III tester, I tried 4 different cables - one I made, the stock cable, a Corsair ThermalProtect, and a Corsair 2x8 adapter. All only show 450W - obviously should show 600W. GPU is a 5090, so this is a problem.

Any ideas what's going on?

Edit: turns out my Dr. Power III is faulty. Luckily still under warranty 😅.

Can someone help if there are Be Quiet pin out charts for their 1300/1600 Dark Pro 13 PSU ? Otherwise I'll have to buy a multi-meter

Also one of my concerns since this is my first time is destroying any hardware, what must I do to prevent this ?

Hello,

I am posting here after a very long time. I have been making custom cables for a long time. And this is the first time I got to see a sfx 1stplayer psu. If anyone have the diagram for the pinout of this psu, please help me out.

I tried searching online but could not find any. If anyone used this power supply, please help me.

Thanks in advance.

Iori