Poll: Anyone else not using rounded IDE cables?

[Antoneo]

I'ved always used the flat ones included with the motherboard. Anyone else?

 

[Justin218]

I use flat ones as well.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

I just use whatever ones I come across. Got some flat ones with my tiger mp, have some flat ones leftover from older stuff, got one rounded one that a guy threw in with a mobo I bought in the fs/ft forum, honestly the only thing I care about is price. If i see one for cheaper, that's what I get. Makes no difference to me, they all work the same

 

[ROJAS]

I made my own flat counting out 5 ribs then cut, 5 ribs then, then I wirewrapped all the ribs together. I tried the round ones but didn't like the stiff feel when you have 2 hard drives together.

I went back to my homemade ones for floppy and hard drives.


ROJAS

 

[Ketchup]

My case has a clear side panel, so I use rounded cables for mostly asthetic reasons. The do slow down your hard drive vs. flat cables, but in my testing, the difference was only around 2%.

 

[ElFenix]

i'd have to pay extra for the round ones. i have flat ones.

 

[Viper96720]

Tried once but was too stiff. Plus it wasn't made well the connector part came apart using ribbon for now

 

[bgeh]

i have a window in my case, but i don't use rounded cables...........i try to hide them behind other cables or twisting them

 

[jaeger66]

Flat. Can't do this with round.

 

[ed21x]

Originally posted by: jaeger66
Flat. Can't do this with round.

what a nice, clean interior

 

[0roo0roo]

round are nice and convenient and neat. but i'm cheap.

 

[igowerf]

I'm on a laptop..... so no?

 

[grrl]

Originally posted by: jaeger66
Flat. Can't do this with round.

Did you cut the ribbon cables to length? I thought there were limits to how short or long you could make them.

I just use flat. Cost considerations.

 

[jaeger66]

Originally posted by: grrl


Did you cut the ribbon cables to length? I thought there were limits to how short or long you could make them.

Nope, they're just folded and laid flat along the bottom of the case. I use little sticky plastic clips to secure them.

 

[wfbberzerker]

Originally posted by: jaeger66

Originally posted by: grrl


Did you cut the ribbon cables to length? I thought there were limits to how short or long you could make them.

Nope, they're just folded and laid flat along the bottom of the case. I use little sticky plastic clips to secure them.

its no voodoo computer tho :Q

 

[grrl]

Very nice job jaeger66.

 

[jaeger66]

Originally posted by: wfbberzerker


its no voodoo computer tho :Q

Heh, no it isn't. Those guys hire oragami experts to lay out the cables. I'm a one person operation.

 

[jaeger66]

Originally posted by: grrl
Very nice job jaeger66.

Thanks.

 

[Izdaari]

I use rounded ones from CrazyPC for my CD-RW and DVD-ROM drives. I use a ribbon cable for the hard drive, since I don't trust the round ones for that. Hard to believe they actually meet ATA-133 specs though I do believe they're good enough for ATA-33 which is all the optical drives need.

 

[Sid59]

flat. . too lazy to buy new ones and install them.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: jaeger66
Flat. Can't do this with round.

wow. thats pretty nice.

i've got a rats nest at the top of my antec from all the extra leads.

 

[Megatomic]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: jaeger66
Flat. Can't do this with round.

wow. thats pretty nice.

i've got a rats nest at the top of my antec from all the extra leads.

Me too. :Q And I have wires criss-crossing due to fans in the exhaust of the case and the drives at the bottom front. I need to do something about that.

Oh and my cables are round.

 

[jaeger66]

Originally posted by: SeekingTao


i've got a rats nest at the top of my antec from all the extra leads.

Me too. :Q And I have wires criss-crossing due to fans in the exhaust of the case and the drives at the bottom front. I need to do something about that.

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I just have one fan in the front of the drives. I don't OC, and my system never crashes so I just figure an extra fan is extra noise.

 

[jaeger66]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: jaeger66
Flat. Can't do this with round.

wow. thats pretty nice.

i've got a rats nest at the top of my antec from all the extra leads.

Yeah they're a pain, some people tuck them around behind the PSU but so far the only way I've found to do that is with duct tape. I'd like something a bit more elegant though. Maybe a zip tie, but I've never seen one long enough.

 

[chanachana]

I'm to lazy to go buy rounded ones. I use the ones that came with my motherboard.