EVGA G2/P2/T2 Individually Sleeved Cable Kit

[VSG]

Jacob sent me an entire kit in red to check out and use it in my build if I like it. The least I can do is share my thoughts and ask if anyone here has any specific requests as far as pictures and tests go.

 

I currently have a 1600G2, 1300G2 and 750G2 with me:

 

 

Here's what the kit looks like when received:

 

 

 

 

Once the box is opened, we see 3 bags inside:

 

 

 

Not much to gain from those 2 pictures so let's open them up. Bag 1 has the 20+4 pin ATX cable and 2 4+4 pin EPS cables:

 

 

If you have a correctly calibrated monitor, the color of the image below will be exactly how it looks in real life:

 

 

 

Too bad I sold my Corsair red sleeved kit last week, but I do have one 20+4 pin ATX cable in white from Corsair for comparison:

 

 

 

Corsair uses PET sleeving I believe compared to what I have been told is Micro Cord in the EVGA cables. If this is incorrect, please let me know.

 

 

Look ma, no heatshrink! These cables look and feel neater in person already. While I can't demonstrate this easily, these cables are also more malleable in that they can be bent easily and they retain the bent shape better than the Corsair cables.

 

 

 

I understand why Corsair went for heatshrink, and I give them props for making the individually sleeved cables available as a kit but the issues of mass production means not everything is perfect. For instance, the heatshrink here is not all uniform in length or application. Some of the heatshrink is actually beginning to come off despite me never having actually used this cable before. This isn't to say everything is perfect in EVGA land.

 

 

The Corsair sleeving is thicker, but the inner wiring in both these cases is 16 AWG- so far so good. But a closer look at the wires in each cable show something I haven't really thought about till now:

 

 

 

These are wires in the same 24 pin ATX cable. At first I thought this was a mistake since only 1 wire was thinner than the rest but then I looked at the stock cable and there were many more thinner wires in there. All the thinner wires (18 AWG I believe, will confirm once Lavin is done taking the cable apart and putting it back together) are actually in one area which is not critical in power delivery. So, if anything, EVGA is actually putting more effort into making these individually sleeved cables better for power delivery. Now whether or not there is a real world difference between 16 and 18 AWG will be found out soon, at least in my case.

On to bag 2 which contains the VGA cables:

 

 

2 daisychained 6+2 pin + 6 pin PCI-E VGA cables and 4 6+2 pin PCI-E VGA cables. Here is where I am a bit concerned about:

 

 

The wires on the daisy chained 6 pin connector all seem to be 18 AWG. This is plenty enough for most people, but if someone is benching hard and has no other choice but to use daisy chained cables, then this may cause an issue. I will be testing this out real soon. The pro overclockers typically have 1 PSU per GPU and some go even more extreme. 8 Pack, for example, uses a 1200W PSU for each 8 pin PCI-E connector being used when benching at the OcUK warehouse/labs. So common sense would dictate you just use 1 cable per connector and not go with daisy chained connectors when operating way past TDP of a GPU. But when you have 2-3 GPUs like the EVGA 780 Ti Classified K|ngp|n edition or the MSI R9-290x Lightning, you have an 8+8+6 PCI-E connection on each card:

 

 

 

So while there are enough PCI-E connectors on something like the 1300G2 and 1600G2/P2/T2 for 3 of these cards, the kit here has only 6 cables. EVGA is looking into making supplemental VGA only sleeved cables available for purchase, so please do let them know if this is something you are interested in. They are also considering selling bare-bones PSUs (no stock cables) for a lower price than the regular models. This would be great for anyone wanting any sort of custom cables so once again please do let them know of any interest in this.

Finally on to bag 3 (peripherals):

 

 

4 x 3 SATA, 1 x 3 Molex and 1 x 2 Molex + 1 Floppy connector. Funnily all these wires here seem to be the thicker 16 AWG type even though 18 guage would have been plenty. I also think the floppy connector is redundant and should not have been in here but I am sure there will be someone now to prove me wrong 

If there are any errors in what I have written, please don't hesitate in letting me know. I am not by any means an expert in this field and am only looking at this from a consumer's point of view. Also do let me know if there are any particular requests for photos or tests. These were all taken hours ago and the wires are currently being tested as we speak but I will gladly do all I can. Once @Lavin gets back to me with his info, I will post it in this thread.

[VSG]

lol 0 views? Here I thought at least someone would be interested

[MPX309]

I'm interested to know why the white kit has heatshrinks and the others do not? 

[Lays]

I'm interested to know why the white kit has heatshrinks and the others do not? 

 

 

Isn't the white a completely different brand, Corsair?

[Lays]

I hope they sell barebone kits @VSG .

 

I CANNOT stand the stock cables, my 1000 p2 is FKN awesome, but the cables somewhat ruin it. They really kicked the bucket with that one, especially since the rest of the PSU is stellar.  I wish it didn't have weird pinouts as well, I understand it's for monitoring voltages or something, but it made lots of cable companies not want to sleeve the cables, due to having to crimp 2 wires in one connector, (apparently some crimpers don't like this?)

[MPX309]

Isn't the white a completely different brand, Corsair?

 

Oh yes, sorry. 

[VSG]

Oh yes, sorry.

Glad that got settled.

I hope they sell barebone kits @VSG .

I CANNOT stand the stock cables, my 1000 p2 is FKN awesome, but the cables somewhat ruin it. They really kicked the bucket with that one, especially since the rest of the PSU is stellar. I wish it didn't have weird pinouts as well, I understand it's for monitoring voltages or something, but it made lots of cable companies not want to sleeve the cables, due to having to crimp 2 wires in one connector, (apparently some crimpers don't like this?)

That's the thing though- there are supposedly capacitors in the cables somewhere to reduce voltage ripple. I can't figure out where! I am waiting on Lavin to take one of these apart and see. These caps are the thing that hold back sleevers, weird pin outs aren't a big deal for the experienced ones.

Do call up or email EVGA and express your interest in the barebones PSUs. The more people who do, the better.

[Epis]

They look much nicer than the Corsair sleeved cables. These EVGA ones rival those of companies that sell these custom made - in quality that is, customs are always better in terms of variety.

[VSG]

Agreed.

 

So I finally tried out the cables in the current rig to see how they looked. First up, motherboard, CPU and only 1 KPE hooked up with discrete VGA cables:

 

 

Don't mind the large cutout in the motherboard tray, I have a back cover coming in and will likely drill in a cable management hole in it. These were so easy to navigate and install compared to the Corsair set I had- the thinner sleeving definitely helps. They also retain the "bend" easier. I did get a sample custom paracord sleeved 6 pin PCI-E cable from Lavin which looked better and held shape better but for a $90 kit, this is pretty good. Some cable combs or lacing and the cables will look much better.

Now with the 2nd KPE hooked up, I had to use a daisychained VGA cable here without any choice:

 

 

 

The dreaded loop appears. Fortunately, thanks to that wall of VGA cables and the easy to bend cables, it is not hard at all to tuck in the loop:

 

 

 

One small thing I really appreciated was that the 6 pin and 2 pin sections of the 6+2 VGA cable are separated all the way from the PSU connector. So it is very easy to simply use the 6 pin part only if you have to!

[<boss2939>]

Just wondering how far did those cards oc nice setup BTW

[VSG]

In the previous setup, they went to about 1525 MHz for a Valley run on water in the Corsair 900D. I imagine better performance once my current build is finished: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/156570-the-utterly-imbalanced-caselabs-tx10-d-builds-dual-780ti-kingpins-haswell-e-evga-1600g2-3-custom-loops-and-more/

[Faa]

@VSG What's PET sleeving exactly? Plastic? Most sleeved extensions I used were horrible, bending them you hear the plastic etc. Hopefully the Corsair set won't be awful like that. The EVGA set however is just amazing, so easy to bend doesnt have any plastic and only costed me 70 eur which is nothing. The Corsair set will cost me 120 eur >.>

[VSG]

PET is a polymer (Polyethylene Terephthalate), while the structure is the same as what you see used for plastic water bottles and has the same tensile strength, moisture resistance and ductility (allowing tighter bends) the PET used for sleeving is dyed for color and the tight bends are somewhat reduced. The Corsair set is more like a cloth finish owing to the thicker sleeving and definitely doesn't give you the plastic bending noise.

[Dimwitted]

This is so sweet. I just wish that EVGA did them in more colours, like orange!

[VSG]

Let Jacob know of your interest. Same with George or Joseph for Corsair.

[KamiKatze]

I really like that EVGA cable kit and i am looking forward to getting a 750W or 850W G2 and a set of cables but here in europe/germany EVGA seems to be pretty much dead. Parts of their website are stone old, they don't reply to customer requests, and the list of shops to have the cable kits in store is very outdated. In fact, i can't find that cable kit in germany at all! - which stops me from buying a EVGA PSU.

[VSG]

I really like that EVGA cable kit and i am looking forward to getting a 750W or 850W G2 and a set of cables but here in europe/germany EVGA seems to be pretty much dead. Parts of their website are stone old, they don't reply to customer requests, and the list of shops to have the cable kits in store is very outdated. In fact, i can't find that cable kit in germany at all! - which stops me from buying a EVGA PSU.

 

I know people in France who have the same kits for months now. That's pretty weird.

 

Edit: Contact dungermann@evga.com

[MLGNOSCOPEHEADSHOTGETREKT]

1 Word.Amazing.

[Maverick5500]

can these be bought in Australia?

[The Crazed Child]

Cheaper than CableMod's offerings, cannot get them here though.

[VSG]

Speaking of Cablemod: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/284271-cablemod-individually-sleeved-cable-set/

 

These EVGA cables will be used in my Supernova 1600T2 review also soon.

[Decon]

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Anti-static bags for cables? 

 

[Norman_the_Owl]

Anti-static bags for cables? 

 

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it's probably the only thing they have at EVGA. It's kinda like when linus got a crowbar in anti static packaging from nvidia