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scofthe7seas:
Hello all,

Forgive my potential ignorance on the subject, but I was wondering why so many people pour over 1000 dollars into the computer component of their digital pinball cabs. I have a 300 dollar PC that plays every table I've put on it at enough fps to not notice any hangups (at all). The high res ones, FP, all at 1920x1200. Is this for future proofing upcoming potential new software for tables? When I build my pinball cab, I have no intention of spending more money then I did on my other PC. The other parts cost enough already!!

lilshawn:
 i just built an AMD quad core 3ghz , 4gb RAM, nvidia 9600 videocard and a case with a powersupply to put it all in, and it was a little over $200 (i reused my harddrives from the old computer)

maybe people don't know how to shop  :dunno

scofthe7seas:
Well, not just that, I've seen multiple people putting in things like Core I7s and GTX 480s. Stuff like that.
I have 2 gigs of ram in mine, and a Pentium "dual core" (it's a value priced core2duo) with a Geforce 9600 GSO 512 (goes up to 1024 with turbocache (borrows from RAM)

lilshawn:

--- Quote ---Well, not just that, I've seen multiple people putting in things like Core I7s and GTX 480s. Stuff like that.
--- End quote ---

you know, i always smell bullplop when people say they buy ridiculously expensive parts...but some people still seem to ACTUALLY do it.
maybe it's just plain ignorance of the requirements to attain what you need to do. you don't need to play video games at 4096×2160 (almost 4 times the resolution of a blue ray movie)

i guess it's no different than those people that spend thousands of dollars to make a crummy old honda civic look/act? like a race car even though it could never possibly have more than 200 horsepower.  :banghead:

Donkbaca:
Well, is there a 64 bit version?  If so you would want at least 4 gig of ram.  On a cab you are driving three monitors, so you need at least 2 fairly good video cards.

Not sure if its a fair comparison to compare what is running on your machine where the whole table isn't being shown, to a cab that shows the whole screen while driving 2 other screens.  Plus on a screen that huge, little hiccups will be more noticeable.  That is just my 2 cents.

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