General PSU cable question

Yosiah · 17 May 2016 at 13:12

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.

Yosiah · 17 May 2016 at 13:14

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.

Yosiah · 17 May 2016 at 13:19

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?

Yosiah · 18 May 2016 at 07:27

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!