General PSU cable question

Yosiah

Yosiah

Yosiah

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Hi,

I have an EVGA 650W G2 PSU. I was excited (as much as you can be when buying a new power supply) to find that the cables were braided, which I thought might make cable management a little easier; however, the chunky 24-Pin ATX cable is quite stiff and hard to bend.

On my previous PSU - a Corsair RM series - the 24-Pin ATX cable was flat, and had reasonable flexibility once routed through the the cable port adjacent to the motherboard's ATX connector. This allowed the wires to feel like they were naturally making that turn/bend into the socket.

The EVGA cables feel stiffer, and I am worried that I should not be allowing them to bend too much -- I'm afraid of breaking the wires/pin connections.

I have attached a picture showing where I am bending the cable. Is this OK? I would say it has been bent. The cable is not long enough to route further into the case, so that I can have the bend elsewhere.

I'm probably just being overly paranoid. Everything's working. I just think I might take the time and redo it if anyone thinks it's necessary.

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Also, does anyone know where you can buy individually braided PSU cables that would work with an EVGA 650W G2? I found some amazing looking cables that seem much more flexible than the stock cables, but they are all discontinued.
 
This is not my PC, but the 24-Pin ATX connection is basically how I've done mine. The cable looks really tight, like they might be causing a lot of tension or damaging the wiring?

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The cables should be fine. They are just thicker which is why they are stiffer. You could always use cable extensions that just plug into the ends of the current cables. The downside is that you have more cable to hide somewhere.

As for cable sets the Cablemod E-series are what you want. Black is out of stock but other colours are in stock. The BitFenix Alchemy 2.0 PSU Cable Kit, EVG-Series may fit as it's for the P2/G2 series but only goes down to 750w. The G2 series are all Superflower units so it may work with yours but I would drop them a note in the customer services section to double check first.
 
Nice, thanks for the recommendations. I think I will leave it as it is for now. The system is working flawlessly. I benched Unigine Valley and AIDA 54 for 12 hours and nothing bad happened.

50c load on the 6600k (stock clocks mind you) and 69c on the MSI 970.

I didn't realise Skylake ran so cool? I'm getting 22c at idle. My haswell used to run at 33c idle and 60c load!
 
The cables must be designed to work with the cable routing in most cases, which will have them bent by the 24 pin socket.
If they were going to be bent back and forth repeatedly it would probably cause problems but they're just going to be static in situ, so there shouldn't be any problem - otherwise they'd be getting rma'd all the time
 
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