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Arcade In A Box review - bandwidth warning, many pix
J-Rod:
Thanks for the kind words. I haven't updated the pics recently, but I finally got around to making what I feel was a decent skin set for mamewah, and all the various consoles. I also mounted a couple of USB ports in the front slot I left for expansion, as well as a ps2 extension cable for the trackball, as I hacked it to a ps2 mouse. The wireless gamepad uses the one extra USB inside I normally reserve for the wireless NIC, and that leaves the two fronts for a wired USB gamepad and the steering wheel. When I designed it originally, I never planned on running newer games and such, but now I feel the need to. There is no room for an AGP card to go in vertically, but I have found right angle AGP connectors that just might do the trick. I'll have to wait for a day when I can sneak those funds past the wife. :)
right angle connectors http://www.meritec.com/Pages/products/agp/agpconnector.html
ArcadEd:
--- Quote from: J-Rod on December 30, 2005, 11:57:39 pm ---Thanks for the kind words. I haven't updated the pics recently, but I finally got around to making what I feel was a decent skin set for mamewah, and all the various consoles. I also mounted a couple of USB ports in the front slot I left for expansion, as well as a ps2 extension cable for the trackball, as I hacked it to a ps2 mouse. The wireless gamepad uses the one extra USB inside I normally reserve for the wireless NIC, and that leaves the two fronts for a wired USB gamepad and the steering wheel. When I designed it originally, I never planned on running newer games and such, but now I feel the need to. There is no room for an AGP card to go in vertically, but I have found right angle AGP connectors that just might do the trick. I'll have to wait for a day when I can sneak those funds past the wife. :)
right angle connectors http://www.meritec.com/Pages/products/agp/agpconnector.html
--- End quote ---
Hey that is cool. Thanks for the link.
JonnyBoy:
If I would have known about that...I could have cut 4 inches off my project....grrrr. ;)
ArcadEd:
J-Rod,
Which of those angle adapter are you going with?
SirPoonga:
So what we are seeing here is a prototype?
I am looking at the computer placement and think it is horrible. PC cases are designed with air flow in mind, same with motherboards. The reason the processor is near the top of the mother board and near the power supply is because heat rises and the large psu fan helps suck the processor heat out.
I am assuming the case fan by the motherboard is intake and the case fan by the psu is exhaust? You know AMD says you only need good exhaust. They have an article and many testers have proven the point (including me) that having only exhaust fan with intake vents keeps the system the coolest.
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ComputingSolutions/0,,30_288_13265_13295%5E13333,00.html
http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/cooling_guide.pdf
http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/23794.pdf
Also, if you are looking for extremely quite but affordable fans look at silenx.
http://www.silenxusa.com/productcart/pc/mainindex.asp
I like the fact that you have the ultra modular psu in there, those things are awesome.
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