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| boardjunkie:
Well....my approach is I want it to work every time I hit the button. Once its done, I don't wanna have to screw with it. Troubleshooting mystery blue screen crashes or other erratic behavior ain't my idea of fun. Heat can, and will make these things happen. I just went thru this on someone's PC that had the intake vents all packed full of dirt. Onboard graphics chip failed, ram was bad and was causing crashes after the machine warmed up. Heat killed it. Monitors that run too warm will bake capacitors causing them to dry out and either make the image quality suffer, or cause the monitor to fail. So....you do as you wish. I'll go the extra mile to insure that its gonna be reliable. And on the subject of commercial games, they weren't expected to last more than a couple years, so they didn't bother with the finer details. A great example of what heat can do to arcade games was the Cedar Point amusement park arcade in Ohio. When they still had all the vintage games in there (large arcade), you could count on a good portion of them either not working, or not working right. The room was not air conditioned, and it got real hot in there. Alot of the monitors looked like crap from dried out caps, and up to half the games were tagged out of order. Elevated temps inside the cabs was a major player in the failure of all this equipment. I don't think they ever had anyone working on the games who knew what they were doing. I even offered to tech for them many years ago 'cause I hated to see the games in such sad shape. They offered me some lowball salary, I passed, and that was the end of it. |
| leapinlew:
Like I said, there is nothing wrong with adding fans, but I equate it to using titanium joystick shafts. Sure it doesn't hurt... but it's not actually doing anything either. |
| boardjunkie:
Fans "don't do anything"? That goes against every rule of thermodynamics...... |
| leapinlew:
--- Quote from: boardjunkie on June 28, 2011, 11:27:26 am ---Fans "don't do anything"? That goes against every rule of thermodynamics...... --- End quote --- Fans don't do anything in a vacuum .... put that in your rule of thermodynamics pipe. Exactly, in many circumstances a fan doesn't hurt, but it also doesn't help. AKA "don't do anything" |
| boardjunkie:
Since when is an arcade cab with upper and lower vents a vacuum? Really....its this simple. You pull warm air out of the top, cool air comes in the bottom to replace it. Constant air circulation.... |
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