PCA Forums

Im going to get some round blue ata cables for my rig, but I have notices a few say get them with a ground wire? the ones I ordered from the geeks dont seem to have one.. Will I have ouchies?

I never had issues with non ground wire round cables

Ground wire ? Hmmm . . I've never had a ground wire on any of mine.

im running scsi and mine are not grounded !
didnt know there were any rounded cables that are grounded

here is a grounded cable





Features:
Wrapped with nylon mesh for maximum air flow improvement
40-pin 80-conductor cable, ATA133/100/66/33 compliant for high speed data transfer (A26 IDE cable)
Highly flexible 26" round cable (16" + 10") with two device connections, one motherboard connector.
Shielded with aluminum foil and braided silver mesh with ground, for maximum shielding




Linky

but the trick is, you have to solder that ground to another wire then place it in your mouth at all times or the computer will explode.

The one I checked out didn't offer that much better performance.
http://www.pcabusers.net/forums/showthr ... adid=21462

Though it might be better using a shorter 18" one.

Can't see what the purpose of the gound wire is. The ribbon is already grounded thoroughly through the connector.

It's possible it has a shield, but I doubt it, that would be an expensive cable.

Either way, it's not necessary.

Thanks for the replies, I searched for info on it, but never came up either, Im sure that there will be no problem.