Hi, I signed up just to share my experience about this cable. Hope it'd be somewhat helpful.
So back story is that: back in February this year, I got NZXT Manta case + Asus Z270i motherboard + NZXT Kraken CPU cooler. As you might have known that Asus Z270i doesn't have internal USB 2.0 header, so I didn't have anywhere to plug the Kraken into on the motherboard inside of the case. What I did was that I routed the cable outside through the back of the case and plugged it to the external USB port in the back.
Well, I wasn't satisfied by the look in the back that it had the cable poking out of the case and plugged back into the back, so I started to find other ways to solve this. And the internal USB 3.1 header on the motherboard was just sitting there, so I started to find an adaptor for that port so that my Kraken USB cable could plug into, inside of the case.
I found out about this Lian-Li cable from this forum! So I emailed them asking to buy this cable. Lian-Li was kind and listened to my problem. There were a few emails back and forth between me and them before they finally sent me a $29 PayPal request ($20 for the cable, $9 for shipping fee). Times went by and they successfully shipped the cable to me within a week, directly from China or Taiwan (sorry I can't remember).
Then I bought another cable (Monoprice Palette Series 2.0 USB-C to USB Mini
http://a.co/1qu19sZ) to convert USB-C to mini-USB 2.0 so that my Kraken could use that internal USB 3.1 header on the motherboard.
Here's how it's all connected: [internal USB 3.1] <--USB 3.1--- USB-C--> <--USB-C --- mini-USB 2.0--> [Kraken's mini-USB 2.0]. All of this is just to satisfy my OCD of not seeing a cable poking out of the case!
I hope this is helpful, and here's some pictures:
This is how it was before: the old cable was routed out to the back, from the inside of the case, through the hole of Manta's back panel light.
Here I got the Lian-Li PW-IC01NH45 cable (
http://www.lian-li.com/en/dt_portfolio/pw-ic01nh45/ ) • Left = Internal USB 3.1 male • Right = USB-C female:
Then I got Monoprice Palette Series 2.0 USB-C to USB Mini (
http://a.co/1qu19sZ ) ** I picked this one because it's very short, and the cable is nylon sleeved**
both cables:
Empty internal USB 3.1 header on Asus Z270i motherboard:
Lian-Li PW-IC01NH45 cable is now plugged into the motherboard on the Internal USB 3.1 header:
Lastly, the Monoprice's Mini-USB header is plugged into the Kraken.
BOOM, everything works fine –– and no cable hanging out in the back!