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danenick:
A PC isn't quite full unless it comes with an optical drive(s) and a hard drive, which the PC you picked out has neither. Honestly, I'd opt for a little more expensive computer with AT LEAST a 3000+ Sempron, or anything socket 939 based. AMD, of course. The Celeron D's are very poor for anything power hungry. Not saying that those games are power hungry, but the extra power of the Sempron would be nice. I have a P4C 2.4@3.3ghz and a A643000+@2.3ghz for MAME computers and the A64 kills the P4 in any intensive game. The Sempron/Celeron would be no different.

missioncontrol:

--- Quote from: quarterback on December 03, 2005, 03:49:50 pm ---I wouldn't hold my breath on getting that $90 back.  Tiger Direct is notorious for not coming through on rebates.

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yep if it's tiger direct don't expect to receive your rebate.
TurboC--:

--- Quote from: danenick on December 05, 2005, 12:16:00 am ---A PC isn't quite full unless it comes with an optical drive(s) and a hard drive, which the PC you picked out has neither.
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Optical drive seems like mostly a wasted component for a MAME machine.  Once you load your desired stuff on the HD, what good is it really?  And he could use an older existing HD preloaded with what he wants, since I doubt most games would require massive blazing HD access.  I haven't looked at his specs, but in general a budget machine is the way to go for MAME I would think...
TurboC--:
Man after looking at that, I think I want it!  If it can run PacMania I think I am golden.   8)  Well as long as it can manage to get to Win98 DOS mode with that hardware, hmm...
SirPoonga:

--- Quote from: missioncontrol on December 05, 2005, 04:40:54 am ---
--- Quote from: quarterback on December 03, 2005, 03:49:50 pm ---I wouldn't hold my breath on getting that $90 back.  Tiger Direct is notorious for not coming through on rebates.

--- End quote ---

yep if it's tiger direct don't expect to receive your rebate.

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This has got to be coming from someone who DOESN'T use tiger direct.

I've received every rebate from tiger direct.  You just have to read the rebate ahead of time.  Like when there was that dlink rebate going on where for each dlink product list said $25 off.  So for the $25 usb 802 adaptor it listed as free.  But if you read the rebate it says $25 rebate with $100 purchase of dlink products.

In this case it is three rebates.  If someone didn't look at the rebates, expecting a $90 rebate on the whole system, they might have also ordered an extra Ultra PC3200 512meg ram thinking they'd get a $20 rebate on that too.  Well, you might be able to in this case, I didn't read the rebate carefully.  But Tiger states somewhere "most rebates are limited to one per household" so I usually assume 1 per household.

Many tiger direct rebates use a nice online system that can deposit the rebate money into paypal within 7-14 days.  Most of my rebates for my new computer did that.  It was pretty nice.

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FYI, what that barebones system doesn't have is case fans or drives. 

I hate celerons, except for the old 300/366 for the cast I had an awesome overclocked system.  I agree with danenick, A real processor would be better for emulation.  The old mame benchmarks show that.  The processing in mame benefits greately from the extra caching and features of a P4 or Athlon
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