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Rate my MAME build before i buy it please
racecar:
hi all im looking at changing my cabinet from a xbox to a mame machine this is what i was thinking of putting in it
AMD Athlon II X2 255 Socket AM3 Dual Core Regor Processor & fan
ASUS M4N68T-M V2 AMD Socket AM3 Motherboard
Kingston KVR1333D3N9/2G 2GB PC3-10600 DDR3 ValueRam Desktop System Mem
Gigabyte GZ-M3-BPD GZ-M Mini Tower Black Case
Antec NEO-ECO-450C NeoPower Series Desktop Power Supply
Western Digital WD5001AALS 500GB Caviar Black HDD
Pioneer DVR-218L SATA DVD-RW Optical Drive
eVGA NVidia e-GeForce 8400 GS 512MB PCIe Video Graphics Card.
i can get all this built into a machine at a local pc shop in australia for $500 bucks
looking to play games like street fighter 3 and all other neo geo an capcom fighting games, metal slug games an mortal kombat games
thanks any ideas of change would be a big help
mytymaus007:
What front end will you be using. If you are using Hyperspin you'll want more memory if you intend to run alot of other emulator but should be fine if you just want Mame. I was just running Mame untill I started using Hyperspin now im in the process of install as much emulators as possible to show them off in Hyperspin which is unreal.
racecar:
what is hyper spin? if i should use it i will,
does that mean ill need 4gb of ram then?
i also want emulators like snes nes N64 things like that
LeedsFan:
Hyperspin is one of the many frontends that are available. Hyperspin is considered to be the best looking of them all, but it comes at a price of needing good hardware. Many of the features can be turned off to make it run on older machines though and it can still look nice. For a beginner it can be a little daunting to set up. But there are some good tutorials available on this site together with videos of Hyperspin running etc.etc.
http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/
I'm currently building a system using Hyperspin and so far I'm extremely happy with it. But there are other frontends you could consider like Mala, GameEx etc.etc. which require less high specs to run fully and are considered easier to setup. But Hyperspin is worth the time and effort for the results.
DirtyDachshunds:
I'm running Hyperspin with perfectly with a 2gb ram machine.