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kalars123:
I got a question, it's seems a reoccurring thing here is that people don't want to connect their cabs to the net because they don't want to use a A/V program to use up resources.

Whats the average specs of all your builds? Is A/V really going to sap that much from your system as to make ANY game unplayable? I'm not asking this for anything but plain curiosity, I just recently build what i consider a fairly low end system for my hybrid Mame/Jamma UMK3 machine and it was just a couple hundred bucks.

AMD Athlon 2 X2 3ghz
4gig ram
ATI HD4890
appropriate cheepie jetway Mobo
650w P/S
1TB WD green HD
that was if i remember right like ~$350
and it runs SSF4:AE at 200+fps with everything maxed I can't belive a A/V program would tax it that much.

Unless your using a Pentium 4 with 1gig or less ram i can't see a A/V program being that much of an issue except maybe annoying pop ups.
lastrega:
My Maricab is connected to my network wirelessly to transfer music and updates... my cab is a jukebox as well. so i tranfer new purchases via mylaptop to Mari.  I have a wireless mouse and keyboard for her, and I have chrome as an exe loadable in hyperspin...... I check my mail and this forum every night on it then play some turf masters, and moon patrol:)   Hell this very post is being written on my arcade machine:) best thing I ever built,  ........ the whole family loves it.  EVEN MY WIFE ..... I have to wait to use my own machine... I am thinking about making another one:)  okay back to the internet topic,  I have panda antivirus..... Very good because it is so light and takes hardly no memory resources, I have had NO issues or bugs with my internet cab........


In fact I am getting ready to make a new maricab for a customer, and one key selling point was it was a wi fi enabled device:) her kids liked how they could see if a new message was comming through on  "facebook" when they were playing frogger.......:).....   ML

 I have had no issue at all and I would recomend it for anyone who has a jukebox build:)   just my 2cents:)
scofthe7seas:

--- Quote from: kalars123 on July 06, 2011, 10:42:18 pm ---
...set it and forget it...


--- End quote ---

Isn't that the tag line for the Ronco Showtime Rotisserie? :D
BadMouth:

--- Quote from: kalars123 on July 06, 2011, 11:40:22 pm ---Whats the average specs of all your builds? Is A/V really going to sap that much from your system as to make ANY game unplayable?

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Those are around my specs (2.9Ghz X3 in the regular setup, 3.2Ghz X2 in the driving cab.....around $250 in each).
It took a LOT of tweaking to get California Speed to stay in the 90-100%.
I'm confident it would be unplayable with AV, automatic updates, auto restore, etc. running.
(No desire to undo all my tweaking to test it)

There have also been a couple threads where people with faster systems couldn't get CarnEvil running without sound skips.
Yet it works flawlessly for me (with a 32bit OS no less).  They say they've tried tweaking everything in MAME.
I believe the difference was that I have nothing unnecessary for emulation running in the background.

Keep in mind that you built recently (as did I) and those parts weren't as cheap years ago when others built their cabs.
...and the bargain parts at that time weren't as fast.

A lot of cabs started out as a way of putting an outdated computer to use.
I built one last month using a 600mhz celeron.  
That thing needed all the help it could get just to make it to the mid 80's games.
Forget about AV.


kalars123:
@badmouth

Agreed i can see an issue with people have system's in their cabs a few years old, or those putting a retired rig back into service, but for people building now, parts are really cheap i just don't think system performance should be a deciding factor "at least for current system builders" for hooking their cab up to the net is all.  As Lastrega said there are A/V program's with very small footprints you could run on a minimalist system without an a problem.  And to think of it I've never tried running CarnEvil after updating for internet connectivity it ran 100% when it was a closed system I'll have to try now and see if there's much difference, and I don't have any driving game rom's because i don't have a wheel, I have though ALOT about building or converting a cockpit, but frankly I just don't have any room for one and can't see me having any room for it, in the near future :( 
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