Rounded cables worth it?

[wfbberzerker]

I recently upgraded, and after installing all my IDE cables, I saw that all the cables were criss-crossing, and jumbled together because the place where they plug in on the mobo is only an inch or two from the hard drives and disk drives (I have an Epox 8k7a mobo). I was thinking of replacing them with rounded cables, but I have some questions.
1) What companies sell them?
2) How much do they cost?
3) Are they worth it? (i.e. Do they improve airflow?)

 

[Siva]

They do make my case a lot less cluttered, but as to if they are worth it, I don't think so. Not when they are so easy to round yourself.

 

[Cybermastif]

You know I have been thinking the same thing myself. I was looking over my case and the jumbled mess I have in there and carefully worked my nice flat ribbon cables into positions where they don't block the opening, hense blocking airflow, and cleaned up the power cables. Now I wonder why I made rounded cables for my other pc. Is it really worth it.

Side note, I did not see a reduction in the temps when I used rounded cables, nor when I got the ribbon cables out of the opening.

 

[VBboy]

Buy one of them to go to your CD-ROM drive... and twist/roll those that go to the HDs into little ribbons. It's difficult to bend the rounded cable into ribbons 🙂

 

[wfbberzerker]

still have 2 questions:

what places carry rounded cables?
or
are there any sites that tell me how to make my own?

 

[andalas]

can't you just buy them in local computer store ?
I saw one yesterday in Micro Center.

You could also go to www.2cooltek.com. I think they sell
some rounded IDE cables.

 

[bacillus]

yeah, you can check out 2cooltek.com or if you have more cash plycon.com! 🙂

 

[iluvdeal]

You really just do it yourself. There are plenty of sites with instructions. Do a search on google.com and you'll find a bunch.