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theonegoku:

--- Quote from: mgb on September 07, 2012, 02:07:43 pm ---Great,
 Thanks guys. I'm really looking forward to this pc build.
I won't have any issues with old accessories because this is a new build and its not going to be another cab. It will just be a HTPC with lots of emulation. Hooked up to a 32" hdtv.
 I've been gathering all the parts and pieces.
Its an Asus mobo (hdmi) with an AMD A8 APU, Windows 7(64bit), 8G Ram, 128GB SSD for OS Drive and 1TB Storage drive (where all my emu stuff will reside).
 This machine will be used for typical htpc tasks, old school emulation and somewhat modern pc games.
I plan on using usb adaptors for playing consoles with their original controllers.

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Sounds like the exact opposite of what im doing, ive just had my pc with lots of emulation hooked up to my 47" and now I WANT to turn it into a cab :P.  What Asus mobo did u go with? (the sabertooth z77 is a beast), I took the i5 route since my older processor was an amd athlon, and do u have 4x2gb's of ram? or a different combination.  I got one 8g stick for now, but nothing feels more powerful than adding more and more ram ;)
mgb:
I went with an Asus F1A55-m/csm micro ATX. It's going in a Thermaltake Lanbox lite. The mobo fits the bill because I wanted the versatility of on board hdmi, dvi and vga.
I went with 2x 4G sticks because the board has 4 ram slots and I figure ram is so nice and cheap right now that I can always add 2 more 4G sticks down the road.

I have a cabinet that runs and (shameless horn toot) looks great. My control panel is not huge and my monitor is vertical (27" trisync crt) so console emulation is not really worth it on it.
besides me and my son love to lounge on the couch while enjoying a little Friday night Bomberman.
MacGyver:
I would make that 1TB a set of two 1TB, and RAID them.  Redundancy, redundancy, redundancy.  Drives fail, and backups on external USB drives with NTFS, will eventually write-fail, lose sync, and then poof, it's gone too.
404:
overkill IMO. I've enjoyed pretty much everything mame has to offer with a dual core 64bit processor that doesn't hovers around the 3ghz range
theonegoku:

--- Quote from: 404 on September 07, 2012, 07:08:00 pm ---overkill IMO. I've enjoyed pretty much everything mame has to offer with a dual core 64bit processor that doesn't hovers around the 3ghz range

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Although it is true that all of ours are way more than what is needed to run a male, u have to realize that make is a gateway drug, then u want to play games that make doesn't do very well, so u start delving into emulators, then dreamcast emulators ecome ps2 emulators, then some games with a lightgun are still glitchy so now ur using full blown pc games to play house of the dead three, so I don't think its overkill, its just right :P
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