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NewToBuilding:

Trying to get ideas on what parts to get.

I first was going to use coinops on an xbox, then I screwed them up with my horrible soldering "skills". Then I was going to get a mini-atx board with a built in E-350D chip. But google is telling me that it will run laggy with a hyperspin frontend.

So now, in my Amazon cart, I have:

Intel Core i3-3220 Dual-Core Processor 3.3 Ghz 3 MB Cache LGA 1155 - BX80637i33220
MSI LGA1155/Intel H61/DDR3/A&GbE/MicroATX Motherboard H61M-P31 (W8)
Corsair Builder Series CX 500 Watt ATX/EPS  80 PLUS (CX500)
Corsair XMS3 8 GB (2 x 4GB) 1333 MHz PC3-10666 240-Pin DDR3 Memory Kit CMX8GX3M2A1333C9 -
Seagate Barracuda 1 TB HDD SATA 6 Gb/s NCQ 64MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive ST1000DM003

Total cost is $334.80.

Being a poor college student, I'm trying to keep the cost as low as possible.

Can you guys post your specs and the frontend you're using? Maybe the items in my cart are over kill.

I just want to play some good MAME, NES, SNES, Genesis games :) Some of the mame games will be the most power hungry resources as I want to play some "newer" MAME games

404:

i actually have a pile of different boards i've tested mame with. Here are a few that i still keep around for S's and grins:

via epia 1ghz c3 itx
512mb ram.
40gb 5200rpm ide drive
mame 0.106


intel shelton 1ghz p-m (pretty rare board)
512mb ram
40gb 5200rpm ide drive
mame 0.106

intel pentium d dual core 2.8ghz
intel d101ggc motherboard
1gb ddr1 ram
160gb 7200rpm sata drive
mame 0.142

My regular, normal use mame rig is
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ 2.9ghz
foxconn motherboard ?
xfx 8600gt
4gb ddr2 5300 ram
250gb sataII drive
mame 0.142


NewToBuilding:

Dang. The first two run fine? What front end do you use?

404:


--- Quote from: NewToBuilding on May 08, 2013, 07:21:25 pm ---Dang. The first two run fine? What front end do you use?

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first two use mamewah with a slimmed down version of XP

the last two rigs run xp64 with hyperspin.

You'd be surprised at how well the itx units run for being a basically 13+ year old tech. I can pretty much play nearly all 2d games that mame 0.106 supports. Not to mention i can play all nes, snes, genesis/megadrive etc.

I can run up to tekken with no frameskip enabled on the old pentium D unit. Same for the athlon X2 model. in addition, i can play Street fighter 4 on that athlon model thanks to the graphics card.


my suggestion is, if you are on a tight budget and cannot afford bleeding edge tech for your mame cab and are not going to be playing bleeding edge emulated games (ps2 for example) consider looking on newegg, amazon, zipzoomfly etc for closeout deals on slightly older tech like core2 quad or athlon/phenom x4 stuff etc.


wesbrown18:


--- Quote from: NewToBuilding on May 08, 2013, 06:19:53 pm ---Total cost is $334.80.

Being a poor college student, I'm trying to keep the cost as low as possible.

Can you guys post your specs and the frontend you're using? Maybe the items in my cart are over kill.

I just want to play some good MAME, NES, SNES, Genesis games :) Some of the mame games will be the most power hungry resources as I want to play some "newer" MAME games

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Don't run Hyperspin, then.

Seriously, I don't understand why people do this to themselves.  Hyperspin is far more intensive than the emulators in question!  If you can't afford a machine that can run Hyperspin, then don't get a machine that can run Hyperspin and use many of the other excellent front ends out there.

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