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Newbie Question - PC Case or no Case?

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superbovine:
I thought it looked better without a big case in there for no reason... no problems with cooling either.  I had planned on adding a small (non-pc) fan to help circulate air, but it stays quite cool inside.

MYX:
I asked the exact same thing in THIS thread. I finally decided to leave it UNCASED for several reasons. 1. better circulation. 2. Cabinet protects the board. 3. Once it is all set up, you really will not be messing with it (much). 4. It looks really cool. It has more of the feel of a real arcade machine. And really, what good is it if it doesn't look really cool.  ;D

BTW, as to problems... I have had none with the mobo. My problem came into play because braniac plugged my IDE cable in upside down breaking one of the pins clean off. You wanna hard solder job, try soldering one of those suckers back on. (pin connection was under the circuit board.)  :P But back to the point... Being able to have my DVD/CD tray shoot right out the back end is great. VGA card and everything else stays connected just fine (which was my worry).

Moose13:
So it looks like I'm going UNCASED....at least for now.
SO, another thought. Most pictures I've seen have the MB mounted vertically, anyone do it horizontally so that there wouldn't be a problem with the cards falling out (weight and gravity)? Maybe it's a dust issue with it horizontally?

Teebor:
Mine is mounted Horizontally, just seemed better that way. to me at least  :dunno

The cards shouldn't fall out anyway, it would take some sort of interference to make them drop out, besides AGP and PCI-e slots have clips to hold onto the card. Other than that most everything is usually onboard these days

MYX:
I would think that dust would be the enemy if you went hoz. I am shocked at how much dust I find in my cab when I think of how many places I made sure it was totally enclosed.
Also, while building, I can't tell you how many times I dropped stuff while putting the thing together. If you go hoz, you have a HUGE target sitting there. Most of which does not wish to be shorted out by a falling screw or otherwise. Also avoid the urge to put the mobo in first. 1, for the reasons I just mentioned, and 2, as soon as it is playable, the cab is done for a while. One more thing. I was super cautious while I was building. But this does not take mistakes out of the picture. Because my monitor was at an angle (laid back) I had to build a frame for it for mounting. One time I made a near critical mistake by removing a bolt to get access to a higher area. I totally forgot the order in which I put the frame together, pulled the bolt, and the while monitor (only connected at the front) swung backwards, eventually the narrowness of the cabinet cause it to stop it's arc. If the mobo had been in place it would have been sent into a brazillion pieces. (laid back monitors are not real common here so this probably is not even an issue, but it is more the point of the thing. Keep the delicates out until it is safe to bring em in.

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