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Grauwulf:
Mine will me mounted in the cab, but it's going to be mounted with a modified partial pc case so I have some way of securing the video and sound cards from moving around.

Buddabing:

--- Quote from: DennisInMN on April 20, 2004, 10:59:35 pm ---Hi,
I am new to this scene and have been trying to figure out what the best way is to store the motherboard and PCI cards.  I have seen some people that just slide the entire case in the cab and others that have mounted the motherboard right in the cab.  If attempting the later, how does one secure the top of the PCI cards or is that not a concern?  I have not seen anything on securing the cards.

Anyway, let us know how you have done it and the pros and cons of either method.

Thanks.

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Hi Dennis,
There are several issues with decasing your motherboard.

1) Where to put the power supply
2) How to turn the thing on
3) Some motherboards require grounding
4) Where to mount motherboard
5) Security of daughter cards
6) Dust and other contaminates

The only pluses that I can see are that it saves some space and you can use the case for other purposes. But a cheap case with power supply is not expensive.
And, as you can see above, there are many negatives to decasing your motherboard.

In some applications, such as compute clusters or folding farms, space is at a premium, but in a MAME cabinet there usually is enough space to squeeze in a case.

I would recommend against decasing your motherboard.

Mr. Dude:
I was going to mount mine inside the cabinet but I decided to keep it in the PC case.  That way if it ever dies I can just replace the PC and I figure that's a lot easier than unscrewing and unmounting drives and boards that are fixed on my cabinet.  

Tilzs:
On my cocktail I mounted mine on a drawer that I can slide in or out. Or I could take the entire drawer out if I wanted.

exian:
What a great idea putting a draw in your cocktail cabinet...

I'm currently building an upright cabinet and will be mounting my components out of the case, but will be using the motherboard and daughter board mounting panel out of an old AOPEN case to secure them properly into the cabinet.

I did toy with the idea of putting the case in the cabinet but this is going to be dedicated to the task of being an Arcade Machine and maybe moved around a fair amount, so having a free moving PC case is just asking for trouble unless you secure that down and if you do that you might aswell just mount the components...

Thats my 2 cents worth....

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