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4/20/12 at 5:22am
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Well since I cant pull out the pins on me new AX 850 and I already bought almost 100 meters worth of sleeving for my new PSU, i decided just to build new cables, main question though, what kind of AWG cables will I need to make this home made psu cables, I could not really find a guide that would explain everything in detail to me frown.gif
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4/20/12 at 8:37am
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Well since I cant pull out the pins on me new AX 850 and I already bought almost 100 meters worth of sleeving for my new PSU, i decided just to build new cables, main question though, what kind of AWG cables will I need to make this home made psu cables, I could not really find a guide that would explain everything in detail to me frown.gif

18 AWG is the minimum recommended by the ATX specs, high quality units use 16 AWG for the two 12v wires in the 20+4pin ATX(main motherboard) connector... top of the market units(only high output Super Flower Platinum units thus far) use 16 AWG for all the 12v wires.... so, with that in mind you can settle for the minimum required or go the extra mile..
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4/20/12 at 9:03am
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18 AWG is the minimum recommended by the ATX specs, high quality units use 16 AWG for the two 12v wires in the 20+4pin ATX(main motherboard) connector... top of the market units(only high output Super Flower Platinum units thus far) use 16 AWG for all the 12v wires.... so, with that in mind you can settle for the minimum required or go the extra mile..

Yeah I did some searching and found this
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The main [on AX 850] ATX, PCIe and EPS connectors use 16 AWG wires while the SATA and peripheral connectors use 18 AWG.
Thank you very much for explaining the difference, any further suggestions you could give? thumb.gif
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4/20/12 at 9:15am
Not really, it's pretty straight forward stuff, time to get your hands dirty. smile.gif
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4/22/12 at 5:50am
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Well since I cant pull out the pins on me new AX 850 and I already bought almost 100 meters worth of sleeving for my new PSU, i decided just to build new cables, main question though, what kind of AWG cables will I need to make this home made psu cables, I could not really find a guide that would explain everything in detail to me frown.gif

Like above use 16 ga for upgrade while you are at it. For complete info on sleeving-You Tube- Video`s- punch in Lutro0`s customs sleeving. Everything you need to know about sleeving is there. Good luck. bike.gif
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4/22/12 at 6:56am
I plan on doing the same with an ax 750, I think of using 16awg and 18awg.
You can also check ontic's build log to see how he created some custom cables for the ax1200
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