chinny22 wrote:Tetrium wrote:Weren't rounded cables more susceptible to noise due to the data wires not being separated anymore by ground lines?
I remember reading the same thing somewhere, and makes sense, but have never run into trouble so not worried
I do remember having had odd stability problems with my Barton 3200+ rig and for some reason I ended up using flat 80-wire ATA cables and it may have been the fix for these stability problems (it had to do with odd errors related to reading/writing from the HDD I guess), but I don't know for sure as I was messing around with other stuff as well to try and make it stable and it was maybe 10 years ago or so.
Other than this example, I cannot say for sure I ever experienced this problem.
I do reckon using the rounded cables with slower motherboard ATA interfaces (like ATA-33) will reduce crosstalk a bit and make this possible problem less problematic.
chinny22 wrote:
Tetrium wrote: modular PSUs do make more of a mess when you have to keep order to your storage of unused cables, especially since I don't like mixing up cables of different brands (not even sure if these are all the same though, but I'd prefer to use the cables that came with its original unit).
That's alright, I prefer keeping unused cables along with my other spare parts rather then in the case obstructing airflow and looking untidy.
I only get Corsair PSU's as don't like the idea of mixing brand either, worked out well as 1 system needed more molex connectors so used some spares form another system. Its not fool proof though as my first 2 (750 and 1200 Watt) actually uses different cables and newer ones are different again, but at least it looks like they are all 1 standard now.
I guess I shouldn't have started with modular OCZ PSUs 🤣!
But then again, I was never too serious about cable management (even though I do tie everything up a bit so I'll at least have a single bush of cables instead of having a web of loose cables 😊 ).