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Sylentwulf:
One other quick note. If it was just the case bugging you, why not just switch ALL of the components over to the other case?
DrewKaree:

--- Quote from: Sylentwulf on June 21, 2004, 09:08:56 pm ---One other quick note. If it was just the case bugging you, why not just switch ALL of the components over to the other case?

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Mobo compatibility issues with the case, usually.  He'll probably have to do  lot more hacks to it to make it serviceable inside that case.  Now, skipping a case, and mounting it inside a cabinet........
Sylentwulf:
ATX is ATX in most cases. You could also buy a new case/power supply for around $30 shipped (granted, it's a beige box, but hey, it's gonna be in an arcade cabinet....)
gndprx:
Didn't have a chance to play with it last night, so I don't know if the memory will fix it or not.

As far as swaping cases, the small form factor dell uses quite a bit different motherboard / power supply / drive configuration than would fit nicely in a normal case.  I would be better off mounting it directly to the cabinet, which may be the route I go anyway.

The power supply plug is not standard atx supply and the drives it uses are the thin laptop style drives and ribbons.  Not standard ATA.

What I may do is just swap the processors for the faster processor, load up the memory and let it go at that with the original guts.
DrewKaree:

--- Quote from: Sylentwulf on June 22, 2004, 08:09:24 am ---ATX is ATX in most cases. You could also buy a new case/power supply for around $30 shipped (granted, it's a beige box, but hey, it's gonna be in an arcade cabinet....)

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you are quite correct that ATX is ATX.  The SFF, however is RARELY large enough to hold a standard ATX board, and usually is outfitted with a smaller board, hence the "S"=small.....think ITX or micro-version.

And, as he stated, things don't comingle with his two systems.
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