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| Daniel B.:
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on February 15, 2008, 06:21:32 pm ---Depends on the cab and what motherboard you're using I guess. If I was using an older motherboard with lower end components, I might opt to leave the case off. Same goes for if I have space constraints. The stupid Z's I got would be a good one. The Z's have no access to the lower compartment without cutting holes in the back. --- End quote --- Does your Z have a coin door? My case fit in fine through the coin door hole. It's just a standard atx case. I voted to leave it in the case. You never know when you're going to need to pull the whole thing out for an addition or repair. |
| CheffoJeffo:
From last month's thread on the topic: --- 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. 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. --- End quote --- |
| fixedpigs:
--- Quote from: leapinlew on January 23, 2008, 08:59:27 am --- --- Quote from: sac01 on January 23, 2008, 08:56:47 am ---A couple of months ago I was messing around inside my cab and grounded out the circuit board on the 120gig HD in my cab...everything would have been lost (all my mame roms, tones of mp3's for the juke, and every console rom) not to mention all the configuration files, the daphne stuff, etc.... I felt sick...Sooooo I searched around on the web and found a seller on ebay that sells exact replacement circuit boards for all different HD models. I got lucky enough to find one with the same revision and firmware numbers and was able to save everything. This xmas I got a 500 gig HD and ghosted everything over to that and removed the 120gig to keep as a backup... Moral to my story: If you've had your cab for years and put tons of work into collecting everything on it and getting it just the way you want, it's well worth the investment in another HD to back it all up. Think of how much your time is worth if you billed yourself for all the work. --- End quote --- And this is why I keep my computers inside their cases whenever possible. --- End quote --- http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=75814.msg787309#msg787309 |
| DrumAnBass:
I went nekkid with my PC because I pieced it together myself, buying the motherboard, cpu, graphics card, PSU, separately . Didn't want to shell out another $50 on a case that I wouldn't see. I haven't had any EMF interference issues that I know of; but a case could help reduce fan noise... My graphics card fan is a noisy little bugger. |
| Fozzy The Bear:
--- Quote from: DrumAnBass on February 15, 2008, 09:23:01 pm ---I haven't had any EMF interference issues that I know of; but a case could help reduce fan noise... My graphics card fan is a noisy little bugger. --- End quote --- Most real arcade machines are noisier than that.... Just that you don't notice it in an arcade with all the other noise going on. Best Regards, Julian (Fozzy The Bear) |
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