Building my first mame cabinet, graphics card question.

[Wilimnot]

Hello there.  When I was a kid, I've always wanted to own an arcade cabinet, now at the age of 31, that dream is happening.  I will be hear with many questions, and here is the first of many.  On Friday I will buy a tekken 3 game, but it's in a dedicate mortal kombat cabinet.  I bought a dell on eBay and that's ready to go.  I bought Sf4 for it because I want to play that too on it.  I want it to run on the monitor inside the cabinet.  Is the arcadevga 5000 strong enough to run that game?  Or should I go with a XFX HD-667X-CDF3 Radeon HD 6670 2GB 128-Bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.1 Video Card, and run soft15?  What is the better option for me?  My motherboard can run those cards, I just want to get the best overall performance, and easiest way to run my arcade monitor through my PC.

[mgb]

Keep in mind when talking about running high def games and video cards, that you don't have a high definition monitor.
I would guess the monitor in your cab is a Cga/ega monitor, meaning it can do standard resolution or medium resolution. Usually configured for one or the other through a jumper.
Killer instinct 3 was standard, while mortal kombat was medium.
Or its even possible that your cab has a tri-sync monitor  which will add vga. Tri-syncs will typically autoswitch between resolutions.

But I would think HD video cards in a PC hooked up to an arcade monitor would be a waste.
The arcade vga will work but from what I know, not so much needed nowadays.
There are many software alternatives now.
I acctually use an arcadevga 2 with a tri-sync so I'm noot really up on what's happening with all that but maybe you should look into groovymame or something along those lines.
I know there are some reccomended video cards for these types of setups.
Hopefully someone more in the know can chime in.