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To place cooling fans or not to place cooling fans.....
Blanka:
Most cabs are pretty tall, thus good for making a passive heatpipe. The heat will cause natural circulation. Just put holes at the proper locations.
Bluedeath:
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PERSONALLY, I prefer mounting my computers for mame rigs to a piece of plywood that gets mounted to the side or bottom of the cab....it makes for real easy removal and provides maximum airflow.
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Good idea, i think that I'll do the same is the 5 mm plywood OK for that? does it bent or deform after some use?.
to @ garnerb350.
Sorry for hijacking your topic.
Put 2 "silent" <1000 RPM speed 12cm (4,7 inch) inside the cab, just for heat extraction, behind the vent grills(if you don't have vent grills in your cab make them ASAP) if you want to keep the PC case inside the cab just remove all the panels and keep the case structure only no fan except the psu and the CPU ones (and the video card unless your has a passive heatsink) .
To explain you better: I use to keep the case of the PC on my desk without the side panel the components keeps so cool that CPU fan is so slow that i have to keep the fan speed alarm turned off, the only noise that you can hear is from the video card fan. If a close it after a while it seems to be on carrier takeoff bridge (maybe I'm a bit exaggerating but it gives you and idea of the difference of noise). the mobo that I'm installing into the cabinet is now sitting on my desk and the fan the temp is very low, when you touch the heat sink you can barely feel any heat.
trust me you don't want a closed case into you cabinet
FrizzleFried:
One of my cabs uses 3/8" plywood, another uses 3/4" left over MDF... I use standard PCB "stand offs" that have machine screws for the PCB end and holes to screw in a wood screw on the other. I use an L-bracket or two to support the power supply and I usually just rip off a HD cage from one of my spare cases to mount the HD to the wood.
Bluedeath:
thanks, do you use a 3.5 or a2.5 hdd? (I won't go off topic anyome i promise)
FrizzleFried:
I use what is on hand...in my case a standard 3.5 is usually what is on hand.