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paigeoliver:

I am of a different opinion, if you have to skimp somewhere in your project then skimp on the PC. It is the one component that you WILL end up having to replace later down the road. Todays $500 computer is a $100 computer a year and a half from now and a $50 computer a year and a half later. Nothing else in your game is going to depreciate like that. You cannot future proof your cabinet with a more powerful computer.

In fact nothing in the holy trinity of COMPUTER, CONTROLS, DISPLAY gives you less bang for your buck than the computer does. Nothing will be less apparent to your guests who play it either.

You don't have to use an almost 10 year old computer like I am, only reason I do is because it still works. But if there is a single place to save, it is in the computer. In three years from now you know what the difference is between the guy who spent $500 on a new computer and the guy who initially spent $50 on a used PC and then replaced it 3 years later with another $50 used PC? The second guy has $400 in his bank account, that is the difference.



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--- Quote from: 404 on September 17, 2013, 01:15:06 pm --- .  . . especially when you are on a budget.

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guess that;s what I'm saying.  readjust the budget.  I have spent $30 buying a sufficient mame rig pc in the past, with the sacrifice that entails.  Now I'm ready to spend $300 and do it right and that's what I recommend.  I used to make $300 a weekend DJ'ing sometimes back in the day. 

If you have to think hard about whether a $30 to $300 piece of equipment will do what you need it to do, I urge you to consider upgrading.  it's not an $8000 option for possibly better carbon fiber brake discs on your porsche, it's the basic engine guts of your gaming toy.  Either afford it or don't.  That's all.  I always sacrifice appearance for function and recommend you get the function functional first.  A hurtin' pc will put a hurtin' on your fun sooner or later if you wish to play more recent games. if you want to go 106 or earlier and play classics', no problem.

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UFO:


--- Quote from: Haze on September 16, 2013, 11:12:18 am ---

Your intention here is clearly just to give bad advice and waste time, plus drop the odd sarcastic insult, you are detrimental to progress, and bad for this forum.

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TopJimmyCooks:

Paige, I respect your input.  I addressed the classics Angle in my reply.  You are a confirmed classics guy, which is fine.  I like them too.

But here's my take on what you said about the PC:  OK, 5 years from now a new PC rig of today will be worth $50.  A 10 year old PC today will either not be working or will be worth $10.  The new PC takes higher depreciation damage I agree.  Here's the difference:  the new PC will be able to run demul/psx etc while the old rig will run .106 or earlier.  The capability is just different.  Respectfully,not everybody cuts off their emulated gaming at 1988. 

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paigeoliver:


--- Quote from: TopJimmyCooks on September 17, 2013, 10:52:51 pm ---Paige, I respect your input.  I addressed the classics Angle in my reply.  You are a confirmed classics guy, which is fine.  I like them too.

But here's my take on what you said about the PC:  OK, 5 years from now a new PC rig of today will be worth $50.  A 10 year old PC today will either not be working or will be worth $10.  The new PC takes higher depreciation damage I agree.  Here's the difference:  the new PC will be able to run demul/psx etc while the old rig will run .106 or earlier.  The capability is just different.  Respectfully,not everybody cuts off their emulated gaming at 1988. 

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The Playstation was being emulated full speed while it was still an active system and my 10 year old mame PC handles pretty much everything outside of the CHD and 3D titles (the same stuff modern systems still seem to choke on). I run .78 for the most part with a fairly current version for a few titles that had noticeable improvements since .78

Just tried Demul on my 5 year old desktop (Quad Phenom 9750, 8 GB Ram, Radeon 5700 series, Solid state main drive) and it did choke a little bit. Only game I tried was the PAL version of Crazy Taxi, which should be 50 frames per second but I was only averaging about 45. So you are right on about demul. However most of those console games are chock full of analog controls that no one has on their cabinet in the first place.

Guess that also makes me a dirty game thief, since I don't own the Pal version of Crazy Taxi, I only own the NTSC version, which I was nice enough to buy again a SECOND TIME for PC, but for some reason Sega shipped the darn thing with no analog control support and it is totally unplayable. Never felt more ripped off in my life, paying money for a game I already own and then having the new one be unusable.

ramos8414:


--- Quote from: lilshawn on September 17, 2013, 11:10:14 am ---don't forget there is different flavors of the P4 processor. the "regular" and the "HT" version. you will see a little boost with the hyper threaded version vs a same speed "regular" version.


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Is the hyper threaded version better for mame?

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