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| DeLuSioNal29:
When you say "power" did you mean "strong enough to run your applications"? Or Power consumption? I'm guessing the former. |
| pbj:
Remember 10 years ago when people used to deride those that ran all those dinosaur era 600 watt power supplies... what happened to those days... |
| kevvy2006:
--- Quote from: DeLuSioNal29 on July 14, 2014, 12:55:59 pm ---When you say "power" did you mean "strong enough to run your applications"? Or Power consumption? I'm guessing the former. --- End quote --- Great Question, I was assuming he meant enough CPU/GPU Power to efficiently run emulators. If you are speaking about CPU/GPU power I would really need to know what you are trying to run besides emulators(are you running Hyperspin or some other Frontend?). If you are speaking about PSU power then I would ask you if there is a space concern? Does a standard power supply fit inside your cab? |
| jugger18:
Sorry. Yes in the case i mean cpu/gpu power. I would like to run a frontend, either MALA or Hyperspin (dont need the videos for each game). |
| kevvy2006:
This should be just fine to run the front-end and the SNES and NES emulators. If you are using hyperspin you may have to turn off some of the theme features (this can be done in HyperHQ). If you place a video card in there you will defiantly be more then fine. So I would say... Short answer: Yes Long (and quite geeky) answer: A good rule of thumb to figure out if a computer can run something is take the CPU/GPU power of the machine you would like to run and multiply it by 3 to 5. If your CPU/GPU is greater then the answer then you most likely can run it (of course if there is an emulator for that particular system :P) For example: The NES had a CPU of approx. 1.79 MHz times that by 5 you would get 8.95 MHz Remember all an emulator is, is a virtual environment containing the original OS of the video game system. This is why sometimes you will need the "BIOS" from an actual system as you need the OS to play the game! I am sure that is more info then you needed :laugh2: |
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