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My first conversion and real build
TeamTEOR:
I still play on the machine once or twice a week, but I am getting tired of the machine vibrating loud as hell from the fans needed to cool that AMD proc. I can feel that the system heat up as the wood gets really warm. I am temped to take the back cover panel off and leave it in the closet.
In any case my wife upgraded her computer and gave me her older 3.Ghz Core2 Duo motherboard, proc, and ram. I am also going to try to use her old ATI 4550 PCI-E video card as well since drivers have surfaced for it to run on 15khz. That means she gets another upgrade for her computer.
Another thing I'll be doing is to install a wireless mouse as I am tired of the corded one.
I really need to get a hold of a set of templates and a walk through so I can make a new panel to house my trackball. I already have the control panel itself cut out.
newmanfamilyvlogs:
Bit the bullet and add the trackball instead of getting a mouse. (:
I run my 3.16Ghz C2D with a FreezerPro heatsink/fan in an Antec 300 case in my cabinet. It lives in a very small enclosed space in my cab, but barely gets warm with the fans running almost silent, even if left on all day. If you've got the room/funds for it you might look at those:
Freezer Pro
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835186134
Antec 300
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129042
The Antec has two large fans with three speed settings. It moves a gracious volume of air over the HSF even at low rpm.
TeamTEOR:
Good stuff! Looks like a great cpu cooler, and those Antec cases are nice. If the Core 2 Duo system heats up at all in there (I doubt it as it always seemed to run cool & quiet) I'll look for a new heat pipe cpu cooler like that. The tower it is in is decent, so no worries there.
That old AMD needed that fan to run cool, and it is on a copper heatsink with silver paste. Never understood why AMD always ran so hot. Their heat issues is also the reason stopped buying them.
If you look in the other thread my wife fitted over her ATI 4550 video being pulled from her tower, so I picked up a new ArcadeVGA 3000 on eBay for $60 (shipped).
What I would love to find is if there was a fan I could mount onto the top of the arcade itself that would not send magnetic waves to the monitor. That is my next search.
newmanfamilyvlogs:
Well with the new stuff going on with modified ATI drivers you can get away with a passive card like many of the HD4350s. I've got one of those and have run both 15kHz and 31kHz monitors with it. Mame is flawless and newer 3d games like SF4 run full speed.
As for the fan, you could take the route I saw in another thread and use some kind of ducting to direct air flow.. Put a few large diameter, low RPM fans at the bottom drawing in cooler air and direct it upwards toward your opening in some kind of a vent to stir the air in that direction.