I've never had problems caused by rounded cables. Just group things in 4's (so each group has 2 grounds, 2 data), and you'll be just fine. They didn't really do that much at all for temperature when I was overclocking, but I had a fulltower case and plenty of room.
What rounded cables really kick butt for are flexibility in cramped cases imho... Oh yeah, the last Dells I bought at work (Optiplex GX240) had stacked IDE cables like I mentioned above. Either way I'm ready for serial ATA or internal firewire firewire hard drives. Quoting Wei-shi Tsai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Bad IDE cables will cause DMA errors. Folding IDE cables causes bad > cables. From my personal experience, I was having problems with a drive > > that would stop working with DMA after extensive use. A replacement > cable solved the problem. > > In my experience, you really don't have to worry about heat problems or > > heat flow unless you are overclocking (my computer is currently > underclocked). > > Spencer Ogden wrote: > > Thought I would mention a little glitch I just ran into. > > > > I have been concerned with the heat in my case for a while, so last > time I > > had it open I did some rearraging. Having seen a few articles online > about > > 'rounding' you ide cable I did a less extreme version. I folded my > ribbons > > and taped them up. This opened a lot of room in the case and I'm sure > help > > air flow. > > > > However when I tried to boot off of a linux CD, it would boot, but > init > > would fail to run, spewing DMA errors. This was only a few disks, > > mandrake's cds didn't have a problem. Incredulousy I unboung the > ribbons > > and everthing was fine. > > > > This was suprising to me, although some might tell me I'm stupid. > > > > Spencer > > _______________________________________________ > > Siglinux mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux > > > > > -- > Wei-shi Tsai > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > MoonieCode(1.12.05) > SM:6-[8]m+ F:sMe++[+]>Mo+>:vNe+>Bl+<:aLu+[+]>Ry<:pR+>Cl< > D:s:Ma<:vJa--<Wi---+ X:***[*]:a30s+[+]|80d+[+] O:d+:s+:o?:x?:a--:h- > P:a++:s6::w150:f?:eBr|Bkg:hBkm:t-:cAs:bO+:*Aq:y--:r+|- > "The moonlight carries the message of love." -Serena/Sailor Moon > "I just caught up on my reading. I'm now ten chapters ahead." > -Amy/Sailor Mercury > > _______________________________________________ > Siglinux mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux > _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
