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Hyperspin - Are the Specs of this Machine Sufficient to Run It???

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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.

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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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