{"id":44114,"date":"2026-02-11T00:58:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T05:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=44114"},"modified":"2026-02-11T00:58:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T05:58:33","slug":"balrog-750w-bequiet-power-supply-wires-too-thick-2026-02-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=44114","title":{"rendered":"balrog-750w-bequiet-power-supply-wires-too-thick-2026-02-11"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

so i replaced, with great difficulty and considerable anguish to replace the very noise power supply in balrog; bequiet 750w<\/a> will do nicely if I ever swap my gpu (rtx-2060 > rtx4060~) it they ever get cheap (c’mon ai bubble burst!),<\/p>\n\n\n\n

these new power supplies come with modular cables. neat sez i. but they’re so thick and not very bendy. so here’s the best I can do without spending significant time routing things, stipping some wires out, etc. or buy custom length cables, but ~300$ for a complete sets of slippery silicon cables. not happening on a ~5yo computer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

end result… can’t get the side panel on. 😠 So the power supply is indeed quieter… but the machine is overall louder since no side panel. 🤪🫤<\/p>\n\n\n

\n
\"\"<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

gemini- started speaking japanese when I mentioned my reluctance to spend more money, esp on fucking cables. and $300 is the min, you could probs spend 1k$ on the lighted ones.<\/p>\n\n\n

\n
\"\"<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

so i replaced, with great difficulty and considerable anguish to replace the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[1281],"class_list":["post-44114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-balrog","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44117,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44114\/revisions\/44117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}