stackyFACTSWide, flat, and aggressively ugly. Ribbon cables were designed to lay flat against surfaces, but in standard desktop cases, they act like massive plastic walls that block cooling fans. Modern builds abandoned them for rounded wires entirely because nobody wants a plastic wall suffocating their processor.
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