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moloch:
I am actually going to be buying a mini-itx board next week to try to make a mame machine out of and I was going to use an old case to cram it into. The machine I am going to use is running at about 600Mhz and has no fan so it should be very quite that would address any thermal issues. I may have to break down and use a mini-itx case.

krick:
If I decide to go with a full micro-ATX board/case combo, I might go with one of these cases...

http://www4.tomshardware.com/howto/20031209/case-12.html

OR

http://www4.tomshardware.com/howto/20031209/case-14.html

blue:
This is the case that i have and am rather happy with it.
http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=664835&Sku=P456-5004&CatId=1508

Have a chaintech mobo with an AMD 2000+ 512MB and black CD to match. Use it for my Mame and PC gaming on my TV. For the Price i think that it was a fair deal. The onlt problen i had was, first time with a mirco-atx case, took some time getting use to working in such a small case.

Are you putting it in a cab? (i think you said that.)
Why do you care what the case looks like?
Just wondering?

krick:
Yep.  I'm putting it in my cabinet.

I really don't care what it looks like as long as it's functional and compact so it's easy to get in and out of my cabinet if I need to work on it.

I could just bolt everything to a piece of wood but I want it to be a legitimate closed case for airflow and cooling reasons.

Kremmit:

--- Quote ---Posted by: krick  Posted on: Yesterday at 11:05:09am  
I could just bolt everything to a piece of wood but I want it to be a legitimate closed case for airflow and cooling reasons.
--- End quote ---

How could you get better airflow and cooling than mounting in the free, open air?  ???  True, if you just mount it with no fans, a case with a power supply fan exhausting hot air is better.  However, if you board-mount it with a fan blowing across it, that's gotta be a "cooler" solution.

That said, there's nothing wrong with using a case if you want.   ;)  It sure makes pulling the computer out of the cab easier.

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