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| jonnik:
I have been told the quad core would be overkill is that not right ? That is why I looked at the I3 money is not an issue but dont want to overspend on stuff that I dont need to at the same time. |
| keilmillerjr:
Yes, it should emulate even gauntlet over 100% on mame. |
| Generic Eric:
Get a good motherboard. You can always upgrade the CPU later. Build the best PC you can afford to. |
| jonnik:
What motherboard would you reccommend ? |
| dkersten:
mame can only take advantage of 2 cores currently from what I have read (although I have also read that you can set the number of cores it will use, but that it might still only use 2). So a quad core cpu for mame is overkill, and usually means sacrificing 1 and 2 core performance. However, there are only a small handful of games that really need the power. Other emulators are a different story though. Demul, for example, requires a monster 3d card to run games well, and while you don't need top of the line cpu power, it doesn't hurt. I just got a new machine together with a 6 year old Core2Duo @2.4ghz, 4 gigs ram, and a Geforce730 GPU. I haven't tried to run MK4 yet, but so far everything else runs at pretty much 100%. I know from past experience that MK4 and a few others will struggle on this machine. I also haven't tried firing up Demul yet to see if it will be playable, but the GPU is dx11 and will run it, just how well is the question.. Also bear in mind that your Front End potentially could be more demanding than your emulator. As for network, I would definitely remove network from it, but not because of copyright issues, rather because then you won't be getting notices for updates all the time. You don't need updates for your OS if you aren't connected to the internet unless you have some kind of existing problem. |
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