Ide Rounded Cables Options

[jrl2222]

Okay I'm not that new here but I haven't seen anyone suggest rounded aftermarket cables in a case mod. Their is the tut for hiding the stock ide cable but can't you use a rounded ide cable? In nearly every PC mod I have ever seen including my own their is rounded cables. Just curious.

[Slamm36]

an ide cable is an ide cable so it should work...i havent done it so i dont know if thers any proublums with fiting the cable

[ninjax]

Well, I think it comes down to most of the rounded IDE cables I have seen have been for one device. Also, It is a tight fit in the xbox, and the rounded cables are a little more difficult to bend into place.
Just my 2 cents.

[diablomastabarb]

i don't know anything about your question, sry .........but i was wondering if u could post a link to the hiding the IDE cable tut. i've searched everywhere with no avail. thnx.

[jrl2222]

Well, I think it comes down to most of the rounded IDE cables I have seen have been for one device.  Also, It is a tight fit in the xbox, and the rounded cables are a little more difficult to bend into place.
Just my 2 cents.

I have used roounded cables in PCs a few times and I find them easier to bend around myself. Also the part about them mostly being for one device?
Please check out this site, they are under $10 for a 24" cable mostly $4.99 thats where I get mine for the PC. Hell they have 24" Green UV Sensitive Dual Device Round IDE Cable for $3.99 right now.
http://www.xoxide.com/roundidecables1.html

This post has been edited by jrl2222: Apr 3 2005, 06:38 AM

[BobBrkersMyHero]

i've seen someone do it, and its just a pain because rounded cables dont like to bend, at all

so there are some fitting issues as ninjax said

[kyleitzen]

I got a kit off ebay for like $15- 2 rounded blue UV cables (2 devices each) and a floppy.. never thought about using the spare on my x box.. mabye after i get the xpod.. they are a pain to bend

This post has been edited by kyleitzen: Apr 3 2005, 06:46 AM

[ninjax]

Oops, I didn't know that there were a lot of rounded cables that support more than one device. But the fact still remains that they are hard to bend. Although I am sure that if you cut enough of the HDD tray, and can get one that will flow with a straight up direction after the DVD drive, you will be fine.

[BobBrkersMyHero]

ya 2 device rounded ide cables are all over ebay, they are actually quite popular i guess

[tctsk8r]

it wont bend. And its wide in circumference. So it cant be mover much for close corners.

[Zodiiak]

I've done it, but not within the XBOX Case, within PC case (makes it look alot neater)

[TeonHarasymiv]

I have a rounded one in my case, but it took some effort...

I will take some pics and post them shortly

[xzphatboizx69]

let me get this str8, you want to get a round IDE cable to hide it? if your going to hide it, why dont you just use a standered IDE.

[TeonHarasymiv]

Here's how it looks with the case closed:


You have to remove the 'boots' that usually cover the plugs, otherwise you can't bend it enough:


And the plug for the DVD is upside down (because you use the cable backwards), so you need to get creative

[sypha]

I did this mod about a year ago on my friend's xbox. He told me he read on some other site that it that it made the loading times much quicker. I want to think it was an ATA32 cable. I dont know about the whole loading time thing he mentioned, the only thing i could think of that it might speed up loading games from the hdd.

He didnt want me to trim the covers off the ends like Teon did in his pictures which made it even more of a pain to get it to fit right.