Help on GPU + CRT Emudriver

[Mr S]

Hi All


Long time lurker here who is finally getting around to completion of my Arcade cabinet and need your help and support please

Background
Its a Virtua Fighter 2 cabinet by Sega.
Controls have been gutted and replaced with Sanwa joysticks and buttons wired into Ultimarc IPAC2
PC inside will be an i5 with 16gb RAM.
Monitor - Upgraded Tri-Sync 29" CRT monitor (With VGA input into the chassis).
Front End will by Hyperspin 8TB pre-configured hard drive and emulators loaded

Selecting the GPU is where I'm getting stuck. Ideally, I would like to run all old MAME games (including Street Fighter, Robocop, Golden Axe + many others in their native resolution @ native resolution - 15KHz?).
However, I also want to load latest Taito Type x games and Teknoparrot games and other nice emulators preferably at 31GHz.

Questions
1) Given the above what GPU do I get? I don't want to spend more than £100 - £150 if I can help it. (I don't want to spend £400 on a graphics card as I don't think its necessary - unless you can confirm otherwise hence budget of £100- £150 GBP)
2) If I get an AMD card, I understand that I can use the CRT Emudriver by Calamity - and get 15KHz with old MAME games - is that correct? How does this work on new latest games by Taito Type X and Teknoparrot? Does the resolution change to 31KHz if I wanted to select it? Or will it autoselect. (Remember, I have a Tri Sync monitor)
3) Checking other forums some people recommend Nvidia GT1030, however those individuals aren't taking into account that I have a CRT and the objective is to get old games looking good as a priority followed by playing the latest games after that.
4) Please help me select a card - Nvidia GeForce GT 1030 / Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 / AMD Radeon RX 560 4GB  - Any of those perhaps? Or What would you recommend?

Thanks in advance!

[buttersoft]

Something like an R7 360 would certainly suit.  I bought one from these guys recently and it worked out fine. Even uses Atom15 just fine.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001346331891.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.dd564c4d64qh3Z

That's going to run games three years old at 480p ultra detail. Assuming the game will let you use that res.

[Mr S]

Apologies for the extremely late response, manage to place an order at that time!
Thanks for the recommendation and response!

[CRTFTW]

Probably could have bought a used 380x or 280x for that price

[buttersoft]

Probably could have bought a used 380x or 280x for that price

No, he couldn't have, two and a half years ago, in the middle of the GPU crisis