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| nickbuol:
So I upgraded my main computer, and pulled out the Athlon 64 x2 5000+ guts to put into the MAME cabinet. I am leaving the 4GB with the main computer as it is fine for me. Jumped up to a Phenom II x4 965. Anyway, I also just ordered 2 GB of RAM for the MAME cabinet to upgrade from the old, slow 768 MB that are in it, and today I ordered a new, much faster video card for my primary PC and will put the "gaming" video card that I had into the MAME cabinet. So it will be a bunch of nice upgrades from the Athlon 2900 with crappy 128 MB video card and low amount of RAM. Now to mess around with Hyperspin. Hopefully I can get it working with at least some of the animations once the other upgrades arrive. |
| mytymaus007:
--- Quote from: nickbuol on August 24, 2012, 01:58:42 pm ---So I upgraded my main computer, and pulled out the Athlon 64 x2 5000+ guts to put into the MAME cabinet. I am leaving the 4GB with the main computer as it is fine for me. Jumped up to a Phenom II x4 965. Anyway, I also just ordered 2 GB of RAM for the MAME cabinet to upgrade from the old, slow 768 MB that are in it, and today I ordered a new, much faster video card for my primary PC and will put the "gaming" video card that I had into the MAME cabinet. So it will be a bunch of nice upgrades from the Athlon 2900 with crappy 128 MB video card and low amount of RAM. Now to mess around with Hyperspin. Hopefully I can get it working with at least some of the animations once the other upgrades arrive. --- End quote --- I thought the whole project was to get Hyperspin runnng 100% Hope it works out for you let us know how you do. How much were the upgrades. What do you do with your promary PC that you needed an upgrade! |
| nickbuol:
Agreed, however it seems that there is no clear-cut "this is what you need" type of system, so we'll see. Costs were approx $100 for the 965 processor. $130 for the upgraded card (on sale for $25 off plus a $30 rebate) $35 for 2 GB of DDR2 RAM I already had the motherboard I use my primary PC for some gaming, but a lot of photo and video editing (more than I should). I built it to be an extreme gaming machine about 4 years ago, which is the only reason it has lasted so long. |
| Sparkolicious:
I didn't even fool around with my old arcade rig. I upgraded to a core i-5, 8GB Ram, and a gtx 460 card running win7 64. I later figured I wanted it hooked to my old CRT so I opted for an older card with s video out since I had one. I think it's a 9800 GT. That build has probably 30 emulators and it works pretty well. |
| wbassett:
I'm looking at setting up Hyperspin too. I'm a bit confused though... why does adding more emulators bog it down? It would seem logical that they all aren't running at the sametime and only run when launched, or am I missing something here? Since I am not currently running Hyperspin I probably don't know all the ins and outs of it. I also have a 3.4Ghz Pentium D Dual core processor with 4GB of ram thats going in my grandson's rig. I guess maybe instead of asking what it will run, what won't it run? |
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