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Title: Cabinet is 90% complete!!!
Post by: ultravorx on October 12, 2006, 07:51:17 pm: Well, I'm just about 90% finished with my cabinet!!! ;D

I took some pictures for you guys to enjoy. The only thing left is to get the happ coin door and its done!!

Here are the system specs for it:

Hardware:
Ultimate arcade II kit
smartstrip power strip
Mamemarquee marquee, backlit with 18" fluorescent tube
Dual window fan (used to cool the cabinet, one fan pushes, one fan pulls, it does a great job!!!)
Logitech z-2300 8" sub with alpine type R 6.5" speakers
insignia 27" tv running component video
Greylite 14 glass
slikstik quad
Pentium 4 2.8 ghz
1gb ram
soundblaster sound card
bfg geforce 7600 gs oc 512mb agp card with component out (yes it do get a few fps on chd games
with this card compared to my old 128mb card!!!)
wireless g card
fire wire (for quick jukebox song transfer)
80gb main drive
120gb rom/mp3 drive
250gb backup drive

Software
Frontend: Registered GameEx
Mame32 .106 with complete rom/chd set
norton save and restore ( for quick and easy backups in case of system failure)
windows xp pro

Thanks to all you guys with your inputs and "downputs", i learned a ton from reading the boards and have finally got a great working arcade machine!!!!
Frank
Title: Re: Cabinet is 90% complete!!!
Post by: _) (V) (-) on October 13, 2006, 11:19:17 am: Looks good man, and that's a Monker CP!
I like the push/pull fan idea.
Title: Re: Cabinet is 90% complete!!!
Post by: javeryh on October 13, 2006, 02:52:43 pm: Great idea on the fan! Your cabinet is very very nice.
Title: Re: Cabinet is 90% complete!!!
Post by: theCoder on October 13, 2006, 06:20:23 pm: Quote from: ultravorx on October 12, 2006, 07:51:17 pm
Thanks to all you guys with your inputs and "downputs"
Why did you wait 'til now to post. You (and we) missed out on a lot of potential inputs and downputs >:D

Look'n good.
Title: Re: Cabinet is 90% complete!!!
Post by: sportswizdan on October 16, 2006, 08:14:17 pm: How did you mount your greylite 14 glass to your cab? Also, do you have any pics of that?

Thanks, Dan
Title: Re: Cabinet is 90% complete!!!
Post by: ultravorx on October 16, 2006, 10:03:36 pm: Quote from: sportswizdan on October 16, 2006, 08:14:17 pm
How did you mount your greylite 14 glass to your cab? Also, do you have any pics of that?

Thanks, Dan

all i did was put velcro on the 4 corners of the bezel that the glass rest against. it holds super strong and is not going anywhere!!! also, the speakers are butt up right against the glass, so you actually need to remove the speakers to remove the glass. i guess its a bit more protection, lol

Frank
Title: Re: Cabinet is 90% complete!!!
Post by: Brumaz on October 16, 2006, 11:53:01 pm: whats your oninion of the graylite 14? is it too dark?
Title: Re: Cabinet is 90% complete!!!
Post by: ultravorx on October 17, 2006, 06:59:15 am: if anything, it could be a tad darker to hid everything in the back a bit more, lol. i barely had to raise my brightness on my tv, maybe 2 or 3 notches. it made a huge difference with clarity, and color. Everyone who sees it loves it and says it really brings out the monitor.
One friend said it has too much reflection, but i think he was just in a bad mood that day, lol. there is a slight reflection, but you dont really notice it.

All in all, im 100% happy with the greylite.

frank