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What are the suggested ways of mounting PC components into cabinet?
CheffoJeffo:
FWIW, I mount everything on a wood panel so I can pull the entire unit, almost as if it were a PCB boardset.
The caveat there, however, is that I typically build my MAME machines wired JAMMA so I can swap the PC components out for a JAMMA board (or vice versa) I recently did this with my Vertical Classic MAME, replacing the PC with a vertical JAMMA classics board and am going to drop the PC rig into a JAMMA-wired cabinet for a Vertical Trackball MAME.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on January 28, 2008, 12:55:29 pm ---FWIW, I mount everything on a wood panel so I can pull the entire unit, almost as if it were a PCB boardset.
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I would do the same. Cooling fans aren't an issue - sure, they were designed to run inside a case. Remove the case, remove the heated enclosure. All you have to worry about then is the chip mounted fans and they'll work even better outside the case.
CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: Dazz on January 28, 2008, 11:14:44 am ---How do you guys have your computer hardware (including video cards) mounted inside your cabinets?
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I was just looking at the wood-mounted PC that I need to drop into that new MAME project and realized that nobody had really spoken to this.
I leave my boards hanging free when I mount the MoBo to the wood (as opposed to somehow securing the video card, etc. outside of the case). May be a good argument for using a PC case in a MAME cabinet.
I haven't had a problem yet, but I am an old timer and do silly and redundant things like check the innards anytime I move a cab, even if it's only a few feet. (ALWAYS good advice)
unclet:
My next project might be a bartop which will make me take everything out of the computer case....
Avrus:
I think I might just order this:
http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=21886
Mount everything to that and then to a piece of wood vertically.