I am looking to build my first cabinet. Budget is not an issue. Excluding the wood, LCD, artwork, which I guess leaves buttons, PC, controllers, etc, what would a high end electronics setup look like?
For a PC I was looking at a home built Intel 7700k I7, 16GB ram, 1TB SSD, 5TB HDD, somewhere around a 1060 geoforce card. Not high high end, but pretty decent i think. Use the spinner HDD for dumping crap, then the SSD for Windows (though i would prefer Redhat/Centos), emulators, games. I am also thinking of integrating an top end Oculus into the system (just an idea right now).
I will be using this for MAME. I will probably start with the stripped down list in the sticky. It looks nicely done. However, I would like to throw in spinner games, trackball games, and I am really wanting to put a flight stick on the CP, so some flight games.
I am a 22 year IT System Engineer and Systems Architect, so I like to tinker around with things. Not afraid of any of the work. I hope to make this build a hobby for a couple months.