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krick:

--- Quote from: Kremmit on June 25, 2004, 12:36:35 am ---
How could you get better airflow and cooling than mounting in the free, open air?


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Actually, a properly designed closed case that sucks cool air in on one side and exhausts hot air on the other and has an efficient air flow pattern that crosses all the major heatsinks will run much cooler than an open case (or components bolted to a board).

The problem is that without proper air currents  hot air will just hang around components.  The CPU heatsink fan will just recirculate the hot air that is hanging around.

In a closed case with proper air flow, the CPU heatsink fan will remove heat from the CPU into the surrounding air.  That heated air will then be moved out of the case and replaced by fresh cool air by the case fans.

Some of the best designs are ones that have ducts that bring cold air in from the outside and deposit it directly onto the heatsink/fans of the hottest components.

krick:

--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on June 23, 2004, 02:29:13 pm ---

--- Quote from: krick on June 23, 2004, 02:01:10 pm ---I also considered one of the Shuttle XPC barebones but they're pretty pricey too.

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I almost mentioned that, but you wanted standard heatsink and PS, and like you said, they're pricey.

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Well, I'm still going to try to cram my ATX board into the old case above but in my searching, I came across this...

Silver AMS CF-968 gBox P4 Aluminum Barebone
http://store.yahoo.com/directron/cf968.html
It's $189 then there's a $50 mail-in rebate that brings it down to $139
Dimensions: 9.5(H) x 8.3(W) x 12(D)
Supports P4 400/533 FSB CPUs

I think it would make a nice foundation for a MAME cab computer.


They also sell this...
AMS gBox P4 Aluminum Barebone System CF-S868
http://store.yahoo.com/directron/gboxcfs868.html
for $149 (no rebate)
But it only supports P4 400 FSB CPUs

independentthread:
Just to throw in my haypenny into the mix, I don't think the power supply on the first case that Tiger-Heli mentioned has the balls to run anything made recently.  As far as everything I've read goes, anything under a 200 watt power supply with most pentium 4 or AMD xx00 processors and that computer will be dead within a year.  I've actually been told that anything under a 250 watter can shorten the life of a processor.  I can't remember which magazine it was in, but it said that a motherboard with just an AMD 2000 and the lowest power fan available for it would start up when attached to a 160 watter.  Once you put in a video card and connected a hard drive, the fans would spin but the system would just sit there beeping with errors.

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