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redbeard30:
Yep, another "will this run that" thread! Anyway, I have a htpc that's not getting used these days, and instead of buying new parts for my cab I'd like to really use the htpc parts. I am going to run mame. 144 w/psx,Daphne,nes, and possibly nulldc.  The older parts are a athlon. Dual core 2.1ghz, 2gb ram, ati x1800xl 256mb or Ati 5450 1gb card. I will mostly be playing capcom, neo geo Fighters, golden tee games. Will this be sufficient? Or do I need to upgrade the CPU? Noob out.
BadMouth:
Only way to tell for sure is to try it.  If the computer is already up and running, it isn't much trouble to copy a folder to it and launch MAME.

Have a look at Final Burn Alpha.  It plays the capcom & neo geo games and requires less cpu than MAME.
ark_ader:

--- Quote from: redbeard30 on February 02, 2012, 01:24:37 am ---Yep, another "will this run that" thread! Anyway, I have a htpc that's not getting used these days, and instead of buying new parts for my cab I'd like to really use the htpc parts. I am going to run mame. 144 w/psx,Daphne,nes, and possibly nulldc.  The older parts are a athlon. Dual core 2.1ghz, 2gb ram, ati x1800xl 256mb or Ati 5450 1gb card. I will mostly be playing capcom, neo geo Fighters, golden tee games. Will this be sufficient? Or do I need to upgrade the CPU? Noob out.

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Don't know about 144 but everything else should run just fine.  I have a similar setup and it just works great.  (AMD 939x2 2ghz ATI1800 2gb DDR)  ;D
Green Giant:
I run all the games you described on my AMD Athlon 64 3400+ with either 512 or 1GB ram.  I am still on whatever mame came out 5 years ago.  Updating now to see if it gives any trouble on 1.44.
redbeard30:
Well that's good to know that most everything should run! I'm only a few weeks into MAME, so I'm a real noob! It's definitely something I've had to walk away from a few times! I know the earlier MAME versions require less hardware to run, but I finally got .144 working with the frontend and didn't want to go through all that again, plus like the hsls effects.I will update as I start checking %'s.
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