icue link H150i RGB with RM1200x shift

[Jerry Goodwin]

My build is using the two components listed in the title. The H150i comes with an icue hub, and with a power cable that goes from the hub to a female pcie power connector. It's long enough so you can mount the hub pretty much anywhere in the case. But because the power supply uses type 5 connectors, I have to use one of the single-pcie cables supplied with the power supply, and that adds another two feet of cable that I don't need and will have to stuff somewhere.

What I'm wishing I had is a very short pcie 5.0 to 4.0 8-pin male-to-male cable or just a double-ended plug adaptor. But there doesn't seem to be any such thing available.

It's not that it doesn't work, but it's messy and not really necessary to have so much length to the combined cables.

With so many devices now living on the back side of the motherboard, and some beginning to require pcie power rather than sata, you might consider including, or selling separately, a shorter type-5 to type-4 cable.

 

And I'm sure you're hearing it from all directions, but let me add another vote for 90-degree type-5 connectors instead of the straight ones. Or perhaps 45 degrees (out and up at an angle, so the other connectors aren't blocked)