What are you cabinet PC Specs?

[ArcadEd]

I'm doing a bit of research for another project and I'm curious what you all are running in your cabinets or main arcade PC?

CPU
Ram
Graphics Card

Are the big three, but any info you want to give would be great.

Thanks .

[eccs19]

1.2 Gig AMD
256 Meg RAM
TNT 2 Video PCI (I think 64 Meg)
Windows XP.

[jjd]

1.8 gHz AMD
512 MB RAM
ATI 9250 128 MB graphics card.
WinME

[ArcadEd]

Thanks, I should I noted.  Can you specify whether you have a PCI or AGP graphics card as well. 


Thanks.  (everytime I say thanks now I think of the latest southpark, thannnnks) .

[Jeff AMN]

1.8 gHz AMD
512 MB RAM
ATI 9250 128 MB graphics card.
WinME

How much did this cost you to build?

[divemaster127]

amd 64-3000+
1 gig on kingston ram
arcadevga
xp
dm

[ChicagoDave]

AMD 1400 T-Bird
768 MB RAM
ATI 9500 Pro AGP
Windows XP Pro

[jjd]

1.8 gHz AMD
512 MB RAM
ATI 9250 128 MB graphics card.
WinME

How much did this cost you to build?

The bulk of the machine came from an old Compaq Duron 800 mHz.

I picked up a new MoBo socket 462 - $33
512 MB PC 2700 memory - $40
AMD Duron 1.8 applebred - $45
MSI RX9250 ATI AGP Card (128 mb) (because the onboard video sucked) - $35

I upgraded the Power Supply to 450 W for another $15.

Some low-end components, but it works just peachy for mame and the other PC games I run in the cab (Tiger Woods 2005, NFL BLitz 2000, Daphne, Visual Pinball).  It was a pretty good upgrade for right around $150. 

[PhoneLine]

Recently upgraded my cab when I upgraded my main system to a AMD 64 X2.  My cab is now what my old system was a P4 2.8ghz, with 768 MB ram (all the extra ram I had laying around)  and a Geforce FX5200 agp with 256 ram, as I upped my system to a PCI express

[brained]

Intel Celeron 1ghz
256 RAM
Ati VideoCard with TV out (64megs) AGP 4x (don't know what model is)
40gb hd

[hnugz]

AMD sempron 2800+
ECS mobo (combo was $79.99)
512 MB ram ($34.99 after MIR)
arcadevga card (somethin like $90)

Pretty cheap pc.

[lordtodd75]

AMD XP 2200
Asus a7n8x-x mobo
512 MB RAM
60 GB HD
ATI Radeon 9600 256 MB Ram
XP Home

Never had any problems, except the bios and bootscreens flipping rolling vertically. That could have something to do with the fact that my monitor is a 27" floor model wal mart special 

[Antix]

AMD sempron 2400
512Mb of RAM
Geforce 2 MX (AGP)
10+60GB hard disk
XP Pro

[miles2912]

AMD 1400
Arcade Vga card
512 RAM
DVD Drive
120 GiGs total storage

[JeepMonkey]

1.2 GHZ Pentium
256MB RAM
32MB video card

I bought the computer used for $75.

[ArcadEd]

Thanks for all the replies gang, keep them coming .

What have your experiences been using the ArcadeVGA card with standard PC games?

[ChriX]

Not that I have put it in yet but:

Abit NF7
AMD XP2200+
256MB PC2700
ATi Radeon 7500 (s-vid tv-out)
20GB drive, and was planning on using Win98.

Probably about

[whatisk]

PIV 2.4
512 MB RAM
Onboard sound and video
40GB HDD + 20 GB HDD (for jukebox)

[krick]

ASUS A8V Deluxe AGP socket 939 motherboard
AMD Opteron 148 (single core) 2.2GHz overclocked to 2.8GHz
1GB Crucial Ballistix DDR400 (2 x 512) memory
120GB Western Digital HD w/ 8M cache
Soundblaster Live 24-bit PCI
ArcadeVGA + J-PAC
25" Hantarex standard res (15KHz) arcade monitor

OS: Windows 98SE + Unofficial 98SE Service Pack
Front End: MAMEWah

This is likely to be the last arcade PC I will ever buy so I wanted to do it right.

[electricd]

Sempron 2800+
512MB
AVGA 7000 AGP
80GB HDD
WIN XP
27" D9200

[Havok]

CPU: AMD Sempron 3300+
RAM: 512MB
Video: ATI X300 128MB PCI-e
Monitor: Dell Ultrasharp 20.1" LCD
O/S: XP SP2
FrontEnd: AtomicFE

[Jess--]

AMD Athlon XP 1800+
1024 Mb Ram
ArcadeVGA (AGP)

click the link in my sig for a price breakdown (No price shown means it was out of the scrap box)

[GGKoul]

AMD 1gig
512 RAM
ATI GeForce 2 MX /TV Video Out
Windows XP

[Dexter]

Sempron +2800
384MB ram
Asrock mobo
Radeon 9200 128mb graphics (AGP)
40GB hard drive
Running Win2K

Will be upping the horsepower once the cabs completed.

[davieboynj]

AMD Athlon XP 1800
512MB
on board nForce 3d graphics (MSI).

when it comes to graphics cards, i'd highly reccomend using on board 3D graphics.  the last thing you want to have in your cabinet is some ungainly card that's sticking out of a motherboard that can be broken off by a little bump. 

I personally can vouch for mame working quite well with the nForce.

[Malacus]

i still have a long way to go on my cabinet, but my spare PC will fit nicely in it.

AMD Athlon XP 1700+ (1.4Ghz I think)
256 DDR Ram
GeForce 2 GTI 32Mb (AGP)

[BobA]

Athlon 64 3400+
1 GB DDR
ATI 9550 128 MB
XP Pro

[darthbane2k]

Athlon 64 3400+
1 GB DDR
ATI 9550 128 MB
XP Pro

some of your specs are WAAAY too over the top for something like MAME, or even Zinc. Heck Epsxe doesnt even require anything faster than 2ghz. In my opinion, for this hobby its a waste of hardware - unless you're playing 3D PC games...

[PCtech]

Athlon 64 3400+
1 GB DDR
ATI 9550 128 MB
XP Pro

some of your specs are WAAAY too over the top for something like MAME, or even Zinc. Heck Epsxe doesnt even require anything faster than 2ghz. In my opinion, for this hobby its a waste of hardware - unless you're playing 3D PC games...

Waste of hardware, money, time, life, relationships.....  

But it's FUN  ...if someone can afford it, and wants to "shoot a fly with an elephant gun", more power to 'em.

My PC specs:
Celeron 600Mhz
256Mb Ram
Win XP
Crappy onboard video (I need to upgrade)

[bionicbadger]

AMD 2200+
640MB RAM
Ti4200 video (using s-video out)
XP home

[BobA]

Might be over the top right now but got a great deal on a Shuttle Xpc in this config and it should be good in the cab for at least a couple of years.  For those who are not familar with the Shuttle it is a small form factor PC.

[MnMCaputo]

I'm running
amd xp 2100+ @ 166x13 =2700+
shuttle an35n ultra mobo
1gig corsair value select
pny fx5200 agp
2 80gig ata133 maxtors
sound blaster live 5.1

this system runs mame.84 perfectly, except for the normal slow chd games

[Clonedsheep]

Athlon 64 3400+
1 GB DDR
ATI 9550 128 MB
XP Pro

Athlon 64 3200
1 GIG DDR
ATI 9800 256 MB
XP

Cabinet that doubles as my PC game station.  Yes, I game alot:)

[RetroACTIVE]

P4, 2.8G - Asus P5P800
512M DDR (Kingston Value-RAM)
ArcadeVGA
Built-in Sound
75G Maxtor SATA x 2
FOXCONN wireless Ethernet PCI card

Never have experienced a problem whatsoever... Started w/ MAME .97 and have been upgrading and currently running .104.

[struby]

-Dell 2.0 Ghz Intel Pentium 4
-120 gb hard drive
-768 mb RAM (256 that came with plus a Corsair Value Select 512 (pc2100 maybe?)
-Nvidia Geforce FX5700LE PCI Video Card, has dual monitor (DVI and RGB) and S-Video hookups.

[nathanralph]

933Mhz Pentium 3

512mb RAM

Windows XP

Onboard video

Runs MAME with no problems at all...

[Circo]

Intel P4 3.0GHz HT
512MB DDR400
ArcadeVGA 9200
Sound Blaster X-Fi
1TB Worth of hard drives
ATI TV Wonder Elite
500W Antec SilentPower
Windows XP
Billabs Arcade Monitor
Logitech z5300 sub wired to sony xplod speakers

 

[markb]

Upright cab - Mame + PC Games
CPU - XP3000
RAM - 768mb
Graphics - 9800pro

Driving cab - Driving games
CPU - Sempron 2300
RAM - 768mb
Graphics - 9200se

Portable Cab - Mame+Jukebox+Karaoke etc
CPU - Duron 1800
Ram - 640mb
Graphics - TNT 2 Vanta 16mb

Horses for courses.

[Tahnok]

Main emulator computer:
Windows 2000 Pro
AMD Sempron 1000 Mhz Processor
512 MB RAM
Radeon 9550 Graphics Accelerator (64 MB, I think)
120 GB HD

The computer is a couple years old now. I don't know how much it cost to build (other than too much). Plays pretty much all arcade and console games (up to N64 and PSX) without problems.

Aux:
Around 700 Mhz
Around 192 MB RAM
On-board graphics and audio
30 GB (between 2 HDs)

A hybrid of a few PCs I had sitting around. Plays most arcade games fairly well.

[captainpotato]

So far, I'm winning:

AMD K6-2 500
128mb RAM (I think - might be less now).
TNT2 M64

Does (almost) everything I want it to do.