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Bones:
Saturday night update.
Hardly worth updating tonight. Really didn
Bones:
Unfortunately I didn
Bones:
Some other unexpected success today.
I went out to pick up Thai food tonight and the place I buy my computers from was open. Crazy, I went there on Thursday night when all the shops are open and he was shut. Now on a Saturday night he is open. Anyway I went inside and had a chat with him.
I got a quote on a P4 2.8 system, 512mb memory, 160Gb hardrive with CD ROM. I already have the Ultimarc VGA card ready to go. I explained to him what I wanted it for and showed him this thread. He said he could wire an on/off lead to the motherboard so I can mount the power switch where I want it. I may take him up on the offer if he is going to be the one holding the soldering iron on my new computer.
I don't need the PC just yet so I will hold off for a couple of weeks before ordering it.
DrewKaree:
--- Quote from: BrokenBones1 on August 27, 2005, 07:06:23 am ---
I got a quote on a P4 2.8 system, 512mb memory, 160Gb hardrive with CD ROM. I already have the Ultimarc VGA card ready to go. I explained to him what I wanted it for and showed him this thread. He said he could wire an on/off lead to the motherboard so I can mount the power switch where I want it.
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Dunno, I expect you'll get comments on "that's WAY overpowered for what you're doing". The only thing I'd say is step down to a smaller hard drive, and if you aren't planning on playing anything off of a CD, and only want it to transfer your r0m$, perhaps think of picking up one of those nice little sweet USB keys. It'll cost you a bit more, and DON'T use the brutally slow USB 1 versions, move up to the 2.0 for speed.
I started transferring my music collection from the PC it's currently held on, and it takes longer for me to transfer 'em from a CD than if I filled my USB key and did it that way. Dunno if it's a computer setting, but it saves me about a minute and a half per CD, which will amount to HOURS AND HOURS after transferring the entire collection.
Think about jumping up the RAM as well.
tivogre:
--- Quote from: DrewKaree on August 27, 2005, 11:40:12 am ---
Dunno, I expect you'll get comments on "that's WAY overpowered for what you're doing". The only thing I'd say is step down to a smaller hard drive, and if you aren't planning on playing anything off of a CD, and only want it to transfer your r0m$, perhaps think of picking up one of those nice little sweet USB keys.
Think about jumping up the RAM as well.
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Go for it Bones!
I just bought a new PC for my cabinet as well; while the specs are WAY over what I need for 99.9% of MAME games, it DOES have some advantages.
The thing I love most about my cabinet now with the new PC is the speed it goes in and out of hibernation.
I press a key on my CP to "wake" the cabinet; the PC is at the ready BEFORE the monitor turns on / warms up enough to show a picture!
You (and I) will also have the ability to do ANYTHING on our cabinets that we want (play Doom 3 for example).
Also, depending on your motherboard, you SHOULD have the ability to set your new PC to "wake on keystroke". If you can, you can then set up a "hibernate" icon in the windows software.
Result: click the big red hibernate icon on the desktop to "turn off"; press any key on the control panel to "wake up".
Don't listen to the naysayers!