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--- Quote from: sofakng on July 26, 2004, 01:20:10 pm ---Well, I'm actually not too worried about heating issues.  I'm just curious as to the look of the cabinet -- whether having an open-computer (eg. motherboard just mounted by itself on the wall) looks cooler than having a computer case sitting on the bottom of the cabinet.


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That's never been a real issue for me.
Nobody has ever even asked to look INSIDE my cabinet.
I just saved myself all the trouble, and chucked my comp in--case and all.

I don't really understand the comment from Chris, that it's harder to work around the case, either.
I can pull my entire computer out the back of the cab (with wires attached) if I want to do stuff to IT.
I can also get it completely out of the cabinet by disconnecting a few wires, so that it's not in the cabinet at all.
This will let me drill extra holes, or whatever in the cab, without getting sawdust all over the motherboard/power supply/etc...
That seems much preferable to me in terms of ease of use.

patrickl:

I guess it's a case of "classical looks" against "practical sense":
- Taking it out of the case is more work, can give heat problems, but looks more authentic.
- Putting the whole case in is much more practical, but it doesn't look likje a real cab.

MiKman:

I mounted my motherboard etc. to a slide out shelf. I guess it was just because the only case I had for it was a huge oversized tower that wouldn't fit in my cabinet.  so it was mount the stuff outside of a PC case or buy a cheap case. I can rollt he shelf out the back of the case and ork on it really easily if I need to and heat doesn't seem to be a problem for me, so far...

SirPeale:


--- Quote from: APFelon on July 26, 2004, 10:03:11 am ---I do have pics, but it really isn't much to look at... It's just a Wrestlefest cabinet with a Street Fighter style button layout. Aesthetically just like the old Wrestlefest machine, just with a Athlon 2100+ inside instead of the Wrestlefest PCB. I still have the Wrestlefest marquee on it... Heh. I have always been a fan of function over fashion.

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Yeah, that sounds like mine.  I had to cut a new CP for it though.  Thinking of an american flag theme for it.

NoOne=NBA=:


--- Quote from: patrickl on July 27, 2004, 05:31:10 pm ---- Putting the whole case in is much more practical, but it doesn't look likje a real cab.

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I would worry more about "Welcome to Windows" as it fires up, and the frankenpanels, than what the INSIDE of the cabinet looks like, if authenticity were a goal of mine.

I have seen my computer exactly ONCE in the past year.
I don't remember what I was doing that day; but I needed to disconnect my USB hub, or something.

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