can you hear CPU/GPU fans in your cab?

[rockin_rick]

When your cab is on and the computer is not generating sound, can you hear normal CPU/GPU/chipset fans?  Or are they enclosed in enough that they are effectively muted?  How loud are they?  Do you find them annoying?  I'm assuming that as long as the cab is making game sounds, that they are drowned out...

Thanks,
Rick

[Extreme8]

Funny you should ask..
Just last night I was getting ready to swap out my nvidea video card because it seems the GPU fan is louder than everything else in the cab combined. Gonna put my old ATI back in.

Then I started messing around with my new U360s...well, you know how it goes.
Maybe I'll get around to it tonight.

[FrizzleFried]

Hell,  I am considering buying an arcade switcher for my 48-in-1 because the AT power supply fan is annoying me (the only sound coming from the cabinet).   As for my MAME rigs,  the sounds of the fans are something I have to live with...though I've been able to get most of the sounds down pretty low with low-speed fans...

[johnm160]

Humm,

My CPU fan sounds like the bearing is going bad if it was not for that fan I would not be able to hear anything.

Now I just have to find new heatsink and fan for an old athlon 

[Fozzy The Bear]

I'm assuming that as long as the cab is making game sounds, that they are drowned out...

Actually Rick, from your question I'm assuming that you don't own any real Arcade Cabs.....

They kick out a lot of fan noise. Most of them have large extractor fans built into the case. The ones that don't soon get holes drilled and have them fitted (at least they do when I get hold of them). In an arcade you just don't notice it because of all the background noise. Running a single cab at home you will notice it.

To be honest it doesn't bother me that much.... even my desktop PC sounds like a vacuum cleaner LOL  you get used to it.

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)

[RayB]

I do hear it, but it's fairly faint and gets easily drowned out by game sounds.

[MaximRecoil]

I'm assuming that as long as the cab is making game sounds, that they are drowned out...

Actually Rick, from your question I'm assuming that you don't own any real Arcade Cabs.....

They kick out a lot of fan noise. Most of them have large extractor fans built into the case. The ones that don't soon get holes drilled and have them fitted (at least they do when I get hold of them). In an arcade you just don't notice it because of all the background noise. Running a single cab at home you will notice it.

To be honest it doesn't bother me that much.... even my desktop PC sounds like a vacuum cleaner LOL  you get used to it.

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)

None of my arcade machines have any fans, but the Super Punch-Out machine does have the "Nintendo hum" going on, like many Nintendo cabinets do, and is twice what a normal Nintendo cabinet is because of the two speakers/amps rather than one.

[SavannahLion]

I'm assuming that as long as the cab is making game sounds, that they are drowned out...

Actually Rick, from your question I'm assuming that you don't own any real Arcade Cabs.....

They kick out a lot of fan noise. Most of them have large extractor fans built into the case. The ones that don't soon get holes drilled and have them fitted (at least they do when I get hold of them). In an arcade you just don't notice it because of all the background noise. Running a single cab at home you will notice it.

To be honest it doesn't bother me that much.... even my desktop PC sounds like a vacuum cleaner LOL  you get used to it.

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)

None of my arcade machines have any fans, but the Super Punch-Out machine does have the "Nintendo hum" going on, like many Nintendo cabinets do, and is twice what a normal Nintendo cabinet is because of the two speakers/amps rather than one.

Nintendo cabs don't exactly constitute a majority of arcade cabs out there.

[MaximRecoil]

Nintendo cabs don't exactly constitute a majority of arcade cabs out there.

Well that was out of left field. Who said they did?

[Fozzy The Bear]

Nintendo cabs don't exactly constitute a majority of arcade cabs out there.

Well that was out of left field. Who said they did?

Try SEGA, Namco and Konami cabs.... They kick out a hell of a racket.

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)

[MaximRecoil]

Nintendo cabs don't exactly constitute a majority of arcade cabs out there.

Well that was out of left field. Who said they did?

Try SEGA, Namco and Konami cabs.... They kick out a hell of a racket.

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)

Some Pole Position cabinets have fans too, and the ones that don't; should.

[rockin_rick]

I was mainly interested in the PC fan noise in an emulation/mame cab situation.  Not so much as a comparison with real cabs.  Just wondering if I need/should hunt down quieter fans to kill some noise.  I'd like the cab to be nearly silent while on.  Just didn't know if the bulk and enclosureness of the cab dampens/kills the normal PC fan noise.  Don't want to waste money on expensive 'silent' fans if it's not necessary!

(No, I don't have any real arcade machines (yet).)

Thanks again,
Rick