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Benzinbruder:

Good news! The PC is up and running again. It's probably been one of the RAM bars that didn't fit tightly in the sockets. I moved the PC recently (from honorable donor to the "Arcade Workshop"), maybe they came loose then. Anyway, as soon as I took them out and reinserted them one after another the PC was booting! Yay! :applaud:

Really thinking of getting more RAM though. Not sure if 800 Mhz would work in this mainboard: http://217.110.237.70/Manuals/7204-engl-MS-7204-MedionMD8800.pdf
The manual says it's limited to DDR2 533 or 667.


Regarding the graphics card, I just asked because I read that the GeForce 6 and 7 series cards would definitely not run full fledged HLSL without serious performance issues. If your experience is different, I'll give the 6700 XL it a try. I just don't want to have to test every single game I want to play to see if it works out or not, if that can be circumvented with a 20 $ - 40 $ investment.

Can't buy any of the cards from 404 though, as shipping to Europe would probably cost more than all of the stuff he offers combined! ::)
What do you think of a GT 610? Would that be good enough to handle at least the MAME games?

Thanks for your help! I really appreciate it!




EMDB:


--- Quote from: Benzinbruder on April 09, 2014, 03:40:23 am ---Good news! The PC is up and running again. It's probably been one of the RAM bars that didn't fit tightly in the sockets. I moved the PC recently (from honorable donor to the "Arcade Workshop"), maybe they came loose then. Anyway, as soon as I took them out and reinserted them one after another the PC was booting! Yay! :applaud:

Really thinking of getting more RAM though. Not sure if 800 Mhz would work in this mainboard: http://217.110.237.70/Manuals/7204-engl-MS-7204-MedionMD8800.pdf
The manual says it's limited to DDR2 533 or 667.


Regarding the graphics card, I just asked because I read that the GeForce 6 and 7 series cards would definitely not run full fledged HLSL without serious performance issues. If your experience is different, I'll give the 6700 XL it a try. I just don't want to have to test every single game I want to play to see if it works out or not, if that can be circumvented with a 20 $ - 40 $ investment.

Can't buy any of the cards from 404 though, as shipping to Europe would probably cost more than all of the stuff he offers combined! ::)
What do you think of a GT 610? Would that be good enough to handle at least the MAME games?

Thanks for your help! I really appreciate it!

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You could consider a hardware solution for adding your scanlines to spare your PC's power to emulate the games: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,128970.0.html



 

Benzinbruder:

Hi EMDB,

I know that there are SLG's, but the problem is that they seem to work properly only at 4:3 resolutions (like 640 x 480).
Since I'll use a monitor with an aspect ratio of 16:10, SLG's most likely wont do the trick for me.

As long as the cost for the GPU upgrade is tolerable, I have no problems with that.
If you think I should build the whole system based on another, more powerful PC though, that would be another question.

In both cases, I'd really need some advice on which hardware to buy.
This is my newest find: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121778
Will it be sufficient?

Keep in mind that I plan to play games like Metal Slug, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, vertical SHMUPS etc.
So no 3D stuff. Well, SFIV maybe... ::)


404:


--- Quote from: Benzinbruder on April 09, 2014, 08:20:47 am ---Hi EMDB,

I know that there are SLG's, but the problem is that they seem to work properly only at 4:3 resolutions (like 640 x 480).
Since I'll use a monitor with an aspect ratio of 16:10, SLG's most likely wont do the trick for me.

As long as the cost for the GPU upgrade is tolerable, I have no problems with that.
If you think I should build the whole system based on another, more powerful PC though, that would be another question.

In both cases, I'd really need some advice on which hardware to buy.
This is my newest find: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121778
Will it be sufficient?

Keep in mind that I plan to play games like Metal Slug, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, vertical SHMUPS etc.
So no 3D stuff. Well, SFIV maybe... ::)

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Again, this mostly boils down to what HLSL effects you really want to run. If its just scanlines, you won't have a problem.

Considering your rig and your budget, the following cards should match up well and you can get them dirt cheap second hand if you look around.
ATI X series (X800 and up)
ATI HD 2 and 3 series cards
Geforce 6 and 7 series.

If i were you, I'd just join any of the more common European Tech sites that have Buy,Sell,Trade forums and find something along those lines there second hand for cheap. There are some forums have have freebies sections where guys regularly give stuff like this away for just the cost of shipping. I regularly contribute to the freebies threads on here, Hardforum, Ars technica, Anandtech and a few others. I'd offer you something for free but even then, it would cost more to ship to you than it's worth.

Benzinbruder:


--- Quote from: 404 on April 09, 2014, 09:02:39 am ---Again, this mostly boils down to what HLSL effects you really want to run. If its just scanlines, you won't have a problem.

Considering your rig and your budget, the following cards should match up well and you can get them dirt cheap second hand if you look around.
ATI X series (X800 and up)
ATI HD 2 and 3 series cards
Geforce 6 and 7 series.

--- End quote ---

As far as HLSL is concerned, I'm thinking of scanlines, shaders, pincushion, curvature...
I'll try to find something mathing your suggestions second hand. However, I am no longer that well informed as I have been once regarding what is mathing good / bad hardware. That's why I initially had planned to buy a new, cheap card with the option to get a refund if it wouldn't work in my setup.

I haven't known about these "freebie" sections, I'll try to find something like that!  :P




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