This is the guts of the arcade cabinet I’m working on. This stuff will eventually be placed into a Sega New Astro City candy cab I bought off a friend of mine. Cool history note: the cabinet once belonged to the recently closed Arcade Infinity in Rowland Heights, CA.

Instead of just dropping a PC tower inside of the bay where the arcade boards would live, I’m going to mount the motherboard onto MDF to install into the cabinet as if it were an arcade board. It should provide for a clean installation, as well as be more aesthetically pleasing.

Finding a full-size ATX motherboard with the LGA775 chipset was difficult. There isn’t much left; they’ve all pretty much gone mini- or micro-ATX. I probably could have gotten away with a mini-ATX board, but call me old-fashioned. I’ve always used full-size ATX mainboards and I’m not about to change now.

Gigabyte P45T-ES3G motherboard
Intel Core 2 Quad overclocked to 2.66 GHz
8 GB DDR3 1333 MHz RAM
nVidia GT120 1GB (emulation doesn’t require high end video)
640 GB Hard Drive
Running Hyperspin (http://www.hyperspin-fe.com) as the front-end.

Will post more as work progresses.