How Flexible are Power Supply Cables (feat. Corsair CX650M)?

[NarimaanV]

Hi,

        So I'm a first time PC builder, put the majority of the computer together last night, but I noticed something that I wanted to clarify before trying anything possibly stupid. My power supply is a Corsair CX650M and I noticed that the cables, both the non-modular 24-pin and EPS cables and the modular PCI-e cables are really really rigid. So rigid that I'm afraid of bending them as might damage the cables. Is this normal? Can rigid cables be safely bent or should they just be left as be? Here's some photos of what I'm talking about. Here's the 24-pin:

 

The EPS:

 

And the graphics card power is especially annoying as in if I use a single 6+2 pigtail cable to power both the 8-pin and 6-pin connectors, there's no way on Earth I could close the side panel, as is seen here:

 

Only solution I can think of is using both the peripheral cables to power the two connections with separate cables, as that lets the cable sit a little flatter like so:

 

And some people might notice that's an MSI card, a 1080 Gaming X to be exact, which I know are known to be tall cards, but I wouldn't say my case doesn't offer a bit of room for even that (Corsair Carbide SPEC-02) with a window that bulges out. Thanks for any input in advance!

[xdeathshot20]

u can bend them i had that same power supply before my current one and i bent them all to make my pc look nice and i never had any issues. generally there made to be bent to get into tight corners

[manikyath]

you supposedly can bend them about as far as you can force them, i've only ever busted connectors when bending cables, before actually having damaged said cables

 

EDIT: should add, with unreasonable amounts of force

[NarimaanV]

Well that's a whole lot more comforting, thanks very much for the info! Maybe now I can tidy up those big cables a bit