Hi,
I am new to this scene and have been trying to figure out what the best way is to store the motherboard and PCI cards. I have seen some people that just slide the entire case in the cab and others that have mounted the motherboard right in the cab. If attempting the later, how does one secure the top of the PCI cards or is that not a concern? I have not seen anything on securing the cards.
Anyway, let us know how you have done it and the pros and cons of either method.
Thanks.
Hi Dennis,
There are several issues with decasing your motherboard.
1) Where to put the power supply
2) How to turn the thing on
3) Some motherboards require grounding
4) Where to mount motherboard
5) Security of daughter cards
6) Dust and other contaminates
The only pluses that I can see are that it saves some space and you can use the case for other purposes. But a cheap case with power supply is not expensive.
And, as you can see above, there are many negatives to decasing your motherboard.
In some applications, such as compute clusters or folding farms, space is at a premium, but in a MAME cabinet there usually is enough space to squeeze in a case.
I would recommend against decasing your motherboard.