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Install
Ever installed an IDE cable before? Yes? Well, guess what, they're not any different now. Not exactly challenging.
Install: 3/3
Performance
Just about 6 months ago now, I did some reasonably extensive testing on whether or not Round cables lived up to their claims of no interference was introduced with them. From my tests, I saw no noticeable difference in how they worked when compared to your classic ATA 100 flat cable. So for this review I'm not going to spend a lot of time talking about performance and the like for these cables. (If you'd like to read that article, you can read it here.)
So, today, I'm going to be commenting a bit more on how they look inside of a computer case more than performance. As some of you know, I am a case modder. I enjoy working on computer cases for reasons that escape normal human thought. So, the look of a computer is definitely important to me, and likely always will be. This is one reason I'm so taken with these round cables; they do a damned good job of cleaning up the inside of a case. Here's my case when I use flat ribbon cables:
Blah. Nothing there but freaking clutter. That's with 3 IDE cables, a floppy cable and an Audigy Drive cable. That's even with the Audigy cable tucked as far out of the way as possible. The other cables are too much of a jumble to do anything with. Now, here's what happened when I switched the ribbon cables with round cables. There are 3 round IDE a round floppy and the same Audigy ribbon:
Much better in there isn't it? I think it is. While I'm sure some of you out there won't agree with me, I'm used to that. Some of my other stuff has brought pretty hefty firestorms on me before, so I'm used to it. I'd say that the round cables do everything I need them to, including clean up my case. The only beef I have with them is that for mid towers they don't have SHORT IDE cables to go from the IDE to a hard drive. For me I could use a 5 or 6" cable for it and still have slack, so the 10" or so from the mobo to the first connector leaves a LOT of slack. Maybe eventually.
Performance: 3/4
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