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Your MAME computer: Clothed or Naked?
javeryh:
My Cocktail = no case
My Upright = case
I'll use the case whenever I can.
DeLuSioNal29:
Mine is in the case and here's why:
- I only paid $30 for it including the 450 watt power supply (included). It would have cost me more to buy the power supply alone. (my main reason)
- Easier to work on. I can pull it out when needed.
- Case was designed for cooling. Case allowed me to install additional fans.
- Holds the video card nice and snug.
~ DeLuSioNaL
protokatie:
I will use an analogy as my response:
Circuit breaker boxes are made to house certain devices made for a certain reason :IE to cut the power when too much current goes through them.
Circuit breakers are designed to fit well in this housing, and the housing is designed to work well with the devices made to fit in them.
It comes down to a mounting issue. And with a computer, it can be more than a mounting issue. (Cooling, EM interference, ground protection, etc, et al).
For anyone out there who has said they "built" their computer, I ask them to show me the lithographic machine they own to make the CPU and other chips in it...
Think of the case as a simple way to mount the computer hardware, as the hardware is designed to be mounted in such a way. Also, If the MB dies, you have an easy way to "remount" it if you keep the case. Otherwise, you need to reinvent the wheel again just to replace a part...
danny_galaga:
--- Quote from: FrizzleFried on February 16, 2008, 01:54:50 pm ---The cooling argument is moot considering that the CASED PC is sitting inside the cabinet sucking the same temperature air from within the cabinet inside the case... there's no "cooling benefit" from leaving it open thereby exposing the innards to the same ambient temperature that would be sucked in to the PC case had the case been there.
NOW, if you mounted the PC case so as the intake fans were sucking air from the outside of the cabinet, that is a different story.
You can actually produce the same "cooling" effect with a cab than you can with a PC case...simply install an intake and an exhaust. I'd recommend an intake at the bottom blowing toward the exposed PC and an exhaust on top of the cabinet exhausting warm air that has risen from the PC area and monitor area up and out the top.
My horizontal cab has a PC case inside with the sides off it. My vertical cab has the PC mounted directly to a piece of plywood...same with my cocktail.
NOW, there is an argument in regards to EMF....
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absolutely. for me the intake is just below the CPU and the single exhaust fan is up higher. it also helps draw air past the decased monitor. of course another reason im decased is that its a cocktail...
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