Originally posted by: Goi
I have the same one from SCV, they're "copper shielded" but that's just marketing bullcrap, it does look l337 though
They're quality enough for me, what exactly do you consider quality?
Originally posted by: Goi
Yeah I bought it from SVC coz of the price too, and the copper version wasn't much more expensive. How'd you figure that the copper shielding work? Did you remove the shielding and noticed data errors or something?
Originally posted by: jjsole
I have ones from svc.com and work great, but everytime I disconnect one I'm afraid I'm going to damage the ribbon pulling part of it away from the connector. If there are some out there made with a release hook I'd definitely go with something like that instead.
Originally posted by: chizow
Originally posted by: Goi
Yeah I bought it from SVC coz of the price too, and the copper version wasn't much more expensive. How'd you figure that the copper shielding work? Did you remove the shielding and noticed data errors or something?
Nah, just commenting that I doubt the silver/copper braids shield any better or worse than standard rubber. There's still going to be cross-talk and noise, but its not enough for data corruption, at least in my experience. If anything, the quality of cable being used + data corruption is confused with running the PCI bus out-of-spec.
Chiz