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Added a topper, used @Road Hog Madidea and put a police style beacon on top of that and a proper payout tray. Seriously thinking of putting a newer pc in, to take advantage of the great releases for v20. My machine is on win 7 for quizzes mainly, but I don’t play them much nowadays.

I tried using a micro PC (teeny little Lenovo) in one. It's fine for free play e.t.c. but it'll cause issues when it comes to running real coins. So it'll be parted out and swapped with a proper tower at some point. But if you just want a fun way to play a collection - yes, laptop innards or teeny PC would be perfectly adequate, just make sure it's not totally ancient.

I think the issue is that the PC power supply is typically used for driving hoppers and the other components, and the PACdrive and hopper it drives needs to share the same power circuitry. So with a teeny little PC or laptop you'll probably just have a little external PSU providing a fixed voltage. With a desktop PSU you'll typically have a range of cables with different specs you can easily drive other components with.

My garage PC is a Dell Workstation, had everything I needed including loads of USB3, dedicated GPU, cost me about £100 delivered and was basically mint inside. 480GB SSD and 16GB RAM as well as official Windows 10 Pro. It's pretty old hardware (Xeon CPU equivalent to a 6th gen i7)... but total overkill for something like MFME. I can't recommend old office PCs enough.

My old win 7 pc with real basic gfx card runs mfme, old quiz machine games and basic mame stuff ok, but it will struggle to do anything later emulation wise. Win 10 is a minimum for latest mfme, so I guess any basic pc that’ll run that, should run mfme? Ideally any new (used) pc that I buy will be around £250 max! I don’t expect a massive upgrade for that. Any suggestions?

I'm surprised more people don't use old laptop internals in these cab's, lot less space consumed. Nice build though. I might try and build one at some point, some inspiring stuff for sure.

Everything is on a budget unfortunately. Hopefully I can upgrade my main pc and then put that into the cabinet.

get a new machine ul benefit from it