Where to get QUALITY round cables?

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HeroOfPellinor

Lifer
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I'm building my second rig and it's going to be doing lots of audio recording and mixing, so I need quiet fans which means slow fans which means heat. I'm doing everything I can to keep the temps down including buying the best heatsink I can find and using round cables. But no store seems to say which brand their round cables are and I don't want to end up getting occasional freezes or hard drive meltdowns because of poor quality round cables. I'll pay premium for them; I just don't know where they are.

Anybody know where to find round cables that are high quality?
 
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FlowerMan

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I've used the coolermaster ones before, and they seem to be pretty high quality. You may be able to find some high quality flat IDE cables, but I'm not sure where. Flat cables would give you the ultimate reliability and least possibility for crosstalk.
 
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Jeff7

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The ones from SVC seem to work just fine for me. I don't even remember if mine are shielded or not though.
 
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sumrtym

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I have the RD3XP Gladiators. Very nice construction. They aren't the same as the Coolermaster in one very important way....the RD3XPs have grounding wires running through the middle of the cables surrounding every data wire, thus preventing the crosstalk problems associated with most rounded cables. Worth the extra. For a floppy cable, I'd just go with the Coolermaster one though since you're not worried about data integrity on that line, just shielding, as the Ioss cable is 28" long!!!
 
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Lifer
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I figured I really only need one really nice round cable for my hard drive. I'm not concerned about my floppy drive or cd-roms so much and those Gladiators are expensive. Ordered one from holoMaXx around 10:00 this morning and just received notice at 2:30 that it's shipped. Just wanted to let anybody else looking for these cables know that holoMaXx seems like a good company to deal with. Good thing since I can't find these cables anywhere else, yet.
 
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ROJAS

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The only thing negative of upgrading to rounded cables, is they are very stiff and not as flexible as the conventional ide cables. I had two hard drives on top of each other and tried to use a rounded ide cable and couldn't connect them. I had to move one of the hard drives up one notch and separate them to be able to bend a rounded ide cable. They might look cute and maybe help with air flow somewhat, but I found if you are careful with a xacto knife, you can make a nifty ide cable if you separate every 5 wires, then stack them on top of each other and use small wire ties. This way you have a very neat and flexible cable, and it doesn't cost you $40 or so dollars for that rounded one.

I sliced a ide cable 5 wires right under the connector plug, then I went down 2 inches and make another 5 wire cut, then another 2 inches down, etc, etc until you have 8 total cuts, 5 wires each. This will prevent any shorts (in case you exposed a data wire throught the insulation)Then stack the 8 cut 5 wires on top of each other and use small wire ties, rather then electricial tape which will dry out
 
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sodcha0s

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and it doesn't cost you $40 or so dollars for that rounded one.
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From what that graph shows, a standard 80 pin rounded cable w/o sheild performs much better than a flat ATA 66/100 (80 pin) ribbon cable. And they can be had for $10 or less. $10 is worth it to me for a rounded cable. Now, $40 for a damn cable? Waste of money.
 
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trikster2

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Has anyone tried the new Antec Cobra rounded cables?????

www.antec-inc.com then look under accessories.

They are a true "shielded" cable, in that they use alunimum foil and a grounding strap.

 
vailr

vailr

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I'd suggest using SATA cables, most new motherboards support it.
Seagate has SATA drives available now. Or, Abit has their "serillel" adapters for IDE hard drives.
 
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trikster2

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Originally posted by: vailr
I'd suggest using SATA cables, most new motherboards support it.
Seagate has SATA drives available now. Or, Abit has their "serillel" adapters for IDE hard drives.
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Serial ATA sure promises the smallest, interference free round cables.

But I can't find the drives.

Have you found some place that has the drives "in stock"?



Thanks!
 
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Elcs

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Ive saw that the Thermaltake Rounded Cables have been getting a good review. Shielded and well designed. The reviews i saw said they were mis-labelled, but once you've installed a few cables, you know which way around they go :)
 
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