40 Pin 80 Wire Ribbon reccomendations?

Bought a few 80 wire ribbon's to speed up some of my xbox's and while they work great, they are a BEAR to try and get in place since the 2nd and 3rd connectors are closer together than in the OES XBox ribbon. Just wondering if anyone had any particular model that fit's better? or they prefer.

 

I ended up modding one to work. I took a cable and un-clipped the top. I positioned the new connector where I wanted it and pressed it together in my vice. It works quite well.

I never could find a source for one.

 

Thanks I'll have to look into that. These are what I bought btw.

 

http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/80cm-40-Pin...%3A88237b561550a605a24b0f52fffcd9f8%7Ciid%3A1

These work fine.

 

Awesome thanks, I'll look for them in the US ebay!

 

They ship from china, just copy and paste the item number into US ebay.


361351278915

 

Thanks!

 

The best I've had luck with is ASUS 80-wire ATA133 cables.

Here's how it looks - I think you can find those in ASUS motherboard boxes - my old K8N (which I still have and still works,though I retired it now) did come with such cables. (including a 40 wire version for CD/DVD-ROM and a 34pin floppy one)

The only thing that I can find to those being so fast is that,as opposed to most 80-wire cables on the market,which use multi-stranded wire,this one achieves performance by using only one copper wire for each pin. So this would make 2 separate single-stranded copper wires for each pin, I guess.

edit: Forgot pic,whoops.

 

Thanks! I've seen all the debates about faster or not but all I know is the ones I bought that only fit if I have the case open and stuff moved around; were noticeably faster in a big way. I will defiantly look for these

 

Yeah,try and get one of these. At least,my TSOP'd 1.0 runs really fast with them. I did a comparision by booting 98SE inside XDSL,first with a normal ATA100 80 pin cable,and then with the ASUS ATA133 cable. I noticed that with ATA100 it was as fast as a 486 with a ridiculous amount of RAM,while with ATA133 98SE is almost usable. In fact,the only thing that makes it "almost" is the fact applications and menus have a +- 2-3 second delay to appear/open while with ATA100 it was much longer.

As for games,these load faster too! For example I had Midtown Madness 3 boot in a minute with ATA100 while the ATA133 ASUS cable reduced the loading to nearly 20 seconds. I wonder if those ASUS cables would improve loading times on Xboxes with SATA drives.