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dmel75:
Anyone know of a good silent pc rig for a mame cabinet capable of running all the roms at good speed? Currently I have an AMD pc with an older AGP Radeon in it. It runs everything perfectly and I like the power of the 3D card for when I play around with N64 emulation and other PC games but the CPU has a fan, the graphics card has a fan and my case has a fan. I've disabled the case fan but it's still the loudest thing in the room. I don't have a lot of money to spend on say a Mac Mini or something extravagant like that but I was wondering if you all knew of a good mobo/cpu combo that did not need much cooling.

Franco B:
I'm no expert (by any means) but cant you get near silent fans?

Failing that turn your speakers up  ;D

<Cue someone who knows what they are talking about>

TheDriver:

--- Quote from: Franco B on April 20, 2008, 07:57:28 am ---I'm no expert (by any means) but cant you get near silent fans?

Failing that turn your speakers up  ;D

<Cue someone who knows what they are talking about>

--- End quote ---

You can indeed get low noise fans/psu etc. if you want to go real silent cut out the fans altogether and go for water cooling, certainly never seen that on a cab before but could put your costs up. :)

And as Franco B say's just turn the volume up you will not notice them!!! ;)

Regards.

pmc:
Here's a wikipedia page on the topic. There are other sites dedicated to quiet/silent PCs too. It looks like there are several things you can do.

My MAME PC is fine inside the cabinet but my main computer is loaded with fans and hard-drives and it sounds like a jet. I think that I too am going to do some work to silence it...

-pmc

nuka1195:
Dell PC's are the quietest I've heard or not heard. They usually have pretty good deals.

The gfx on the lower end models are onboard, so you may want to upgrade that, wouldn't be necessary for mame though.

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