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Where is your motherboard?
Brad Lee:
No kidding.. Funny thing is I didnt even realize she was sitting there until I pulled the pics off the camera. Crept in through the coin door and was just hanging out.
Minwah:
--- Quote from: patrickl on April 23, 2004, 07:29:30 am ---What about the nois of the fans when you mount the board and powersupply to the cab? I was thinking that you might be able to hear the noise more if they were directly mounted to the cab as opposed to in a case inside the cab.
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Possibly, I have a Zalman noiseless PSU for my cab tho ;D
Here's a pic:
Santoro:
I think that having the Mobo firmly attached to the cab has two major benefits:
1) when moving the cab, you don't have to remove or secure the PC
2) you don't have to deal with noisy case fans.
And since we are sharing pics,
patrickl:
--- Quote from: Santoro on April 23, 2004, 04:01:54 pm ---I think that having the Mobo firmly attached to the cab has two major benefits:
1) when moving the cab, you don't have to remove or secure the PC
2) you don't have to deal with noisy case fans.
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Wouldn't you worry the cards might fall out if you move the cab? Or did you fasten those somehow?
I'm also afraid that 2) doesn't apply to modern PC's. With a "P2 age" (maybe even P3) system you might get away with that, but you'll at least need a case fan to cool a modern harddisk and I'll bet basically every major component in the PC. Convection isn't gonna cut it with the newer PC's. Of course you don't need a modern PC for mame (alone), but if you do then I'd guess you'd need to cool it with a fan.
The vote is amazingly level BTW. Has been close to fifty fifty all the time.
Minwah:
--- Quote from: patrickl on April 23, 2004, 04:18:26 pm ---I'm also afraid that 2) doesn't apply to modern PC's. With a "P2 age" (maybe even P3) system you might get away with that, but you'll at least need a case fan to cool a modern harddisk and I'll bet basically every major component in the PC. Convection isn't gonna cut it with the newer PC's. Of course you don't need a modern PC for mame (alone), but if you do then I'd guess you'd need to cool it with a fan.
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True, I have a case fan attached to the rear of my PC board.
--- Quote from: patrickl on April 23, 2004, 04:18:26 pm ---The vote is amazingly level BTW. Has been close to fifty fifty all the time.
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I guess this is one of those things where each way has it's own advantages & disadvantages...