IDE/ATA Cables

[Dekkerfish]

I'm confused,
When I built my pc late last year, I bought ultra IDE cables with 80 cores per cable (damn expensive from pc world).
Now I have just had delivered ATA133 round section cables (thinking of airflow in the case) but they have only 40 cores per cable.
I presume these are the old type of cables.
From what I can make out the 80 core cables have better grounding for interference (over the 40 core), but would the difference be noticable.
I like the idea of round section cabling, the flat cables don't half seem to clutter the inside of my case.
I could just buy other 80 core cables, but well, do I need to?
For the record the cables were just advertised as ATA133.

Although I built my own pc (and I love it), I don't know a great deal about them.

Any comments would be apreciated.

 

[psd99]

I thght an ide cable was just an ide cable

never really read too much into the speeds except 133 like u mentioned.

i dont think you should worry much
just as long as your drives actually function correctly dont let it bother you

I presume you have a clear panel to show off your insides of the case
well if so yes rounded cables are good for this
but if not i woulndt bother what the inside looks like

one of my pc's looks reallly MINGING both from inside and outside
but im not bothered so long as its fast and does its job.

psd99

 

[floppybootstomp]

How do you know your rounded cables are only 40 core?

If you were counting the seperate conductors understand that 80 core cables use one core for two signals each, which makes them 80 core.

40 core cables haven't been manufactured for years now and it seems unlikely any rounded cable would be 40 core.

Can you not ask your supplier what they are, just to confirm?

 

[PotGuy]

I really doubt you got 40 core cables - there is no advantage of suppling them now for either the manufacturer or customer