Yeah, yeah, I should know better, but I haven't upgraded my system in nearly 4 years now and thought it might be fun (old system only has a 60GB HD, hardly adequate). I was thinking about doing a barebones system in the realm of perhaps a:
Phenom X4 965 3.4GHz or i5 661 3.33GHz or i5 750 2.8GHz
Now I've seen the benchmarks, but not sure if that translates for emulation. I'll upgrade to XP 64 and the 64 bit MAME build as well. You can see a common thread here, all in the $200 CPU range. I know it's overkill for most everything, but I wouldn't mind trying some games that have been impossible for me in the past. Advice? Thanks, as always
RT