hardware

Jan 2006

Purchased Mala Hardware to enable me to run LED's and a LCD Displayy

Set-up in July 2005
CPU: AMD XP 2500
MB: Gigabyte GA-7N400-L
RAM: 512MB
HD: 40 GIG
CD-ROM: NIL
Sound Card: Sound Blaster 64 (spare part)
Video: Card: nVIDIA G Force4
Monitor: 17" Dell (2nd Hand from markets) Unchanged from original set-up
Control Interface: I-Pac 4 Keyboard Encoder
Network Cards: On Board Realtek 8100C
NetComm 54Mbps Wireless Card

Origianl Setup in 2001:
CPU: AMD Athlon 800MHz (and a big fan with a heat sink)
MB: K7VZA
RAM: 128MB
HD: 2 GB (spare part)
CD-ROM: Not Installed..(I have a old 4x one if I run into trouble)
Sound Card: Sound Blaster 64 (spare part)
Video: Card: nVIDIA G Force4
Monitor: 17" Dell (2nd Hand from markets)
Control Interface: I-Pac Keyboard Encoder (nice piece of gear)
Network Card: I dunno but it works! (100/10 Standard Card)

    The Motherboard was mounted directly on the side of the cabinet as there was no room for a whole ATX case. As indicated above, the Floppy/ CD drive are not a part of the unit, but can be connected if required (Only if the Table lid is up). I find it much more convenient to connect to my Main PC upstairs via a LAN if any file transfer/ maintenance is required.
   Extra fans were installed to help combat the obvious ventilation problems. The table wasn't originally designed to in case so many hot components. The largest fan installed I found was very noisy, so I connected it to a temperature switch so it would only fire up if it was really necessary.
    The On/Off and reset buttons were mounted underneath the table so they would not accidentally get hit during game play. The HDD and power light were mounted on the player 1 side.
    The original coin slot was wired up so that coin insertion is required in order to start a game.
    I sprayed the frame of the Dell monitor black so it would not show up so much in the table.
    A speaker is mounted on the left side of the table and the amp is mounted inside with the volume control on the player 2 side.