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orntar:

--- Quote from: Witchboard on February 05, 2004, 09:26:36 pm ---Well, if you can keep from adding active cooling it will keep the noise down.  You'd be suprised how loud those little 115V fans can get.  
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right, they are. but i have a 12v. it dern near silent  ;D
Witchboard:
Oh yeah, you kind of already said that in your first post.  Sorry. ^_^
cdbrown:
I think it would depend on the fans in your PC.  generally the front has intakes and the rear has exhaust, so as you would be having the fan at the rear?? make it an exhaust, but don't forget to let air in somewhere lower in the cab.  That will allow for nice circulation. Excuse the crappy air flow diagram.


  /  pc intake-->  --> pc exhaust -->    cab exhaust-->
 ^
 ^
  \          <--             <---             <--cool air in
paigeoliver:
Make it exhaust for sure. Some original arcade cabinets came with fans, you DO NOT want to see what the inside of a cabinet with an intake fan looks like after a couple of years (like one giant dustball).

Real life example. My Out Run has an intake fan, even after I cleaned it the inside still looks like it is caked with dirt (except the boards, which are oddly clean), the monitor is especially dirty.

My Do! Run Run has an exhaust fan. It is older than my Out Run by a couple of years, yet is so so clean inside that you could eat pudding right off the bottom of the cabinet.
Spaced Invader:
You could just use the Powersupply fan...works for me. Oh, what Paige said...deffinately exhaust.
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