A USB & Belkin question

yaggayagga Havn't you heard? ... New
edited March 2004 in Hardware
I just got a "pro" cable from belkin online and it said it was gold plated. I have one other gold plated from belkin but it was too short. That other one had all visible metal gold plated. The one I just got just has the inner 4 connection area's gold plated (over copper, so who knows what). I am just wondering if that outer metal frame of a usb cable is used for anything in signal transfer, and if gold plating actually made it faster or better would both cables be perfectly equal in that sense.

Comments

  • verselloversello New
    edited March 2004
    Only the pins are used.
  • yaggayagga Havn't you heard? ... New
    edited March 2004
    thats what I thought, but it still bugs me that I thought I was getting all gold plated, they would both perform equally then, if lets say gold plated actually makes them better, over standard.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    Gold plating is a marketing tactic. There is no performance difference.
  • yaggayagga Havn't you heard? ... New
    edited March 2004
    primesuspect wrote:
    Gold plating is a marketing tactic. There is no performance difference.

    Yeah, but the point was I thought I was getting it with ALL-gold plating, its more the fact that I was expecting/supposed to get the one I didn't. Although, I probably just didn't know everything about it before buying it. Really it's no biggie, I was just curious.
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited March 2004
    Whenever cable is concerned Gold/Silver plating only refers to the contacts. It also makes very little difference as it's the wire between the contacts that actually really makes any difference. Also it's only ever noticable between really shitty A/V cables and really good ones.
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