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Jedirampage:
All,
I'm about to start building the PC for my Arcade Cabinent. Please critique the specs and tell me what you think. I know for most of the stuff I'll be running i wont need that powerful of a graphics card however I do plan on running some Zinc, Model 2, and N64 games on this Cab, which will require something thats not bottom of the barrel. Here are the specs so far.
AMD Sempron 3400 Processor
Windows XP
1GB of memory
160 GB HD (will use to backup Pics and Music on my current PC as well)
256 MB Radeon X1300 Pro, Graphics Card. (S-Video, VGA, and DVI connections)
Please let me know if i'm missing anything, or is something needs to be upgraded.
Thanks,
david656:
well as a PC im running
Pentium 4 HT
DVI VGA and S-Video outputs
1GB RAM
250GB HDD
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 256mb video memory
and that runs all my XP Emu's fine and the N64 games work very well using project 64
hope that helps
oo and btw my IBM T21 laptop will play the N64 games but quite blocky/jumpy
so look up teh T21 spec and you obviously want something between the 2
Jedirampage:
Can anyone give me a good running comparison between the cards. I'm pretty good with all PC stuf except for graphics cards
torez:
X1300 is bottom of the barrel, just newer. ATI released X1300 Pro, X1600 Pro, X1800 Pro, etc. first, then they added XT (instead of a pro) and then X1650, X1850, X1950 XT/XTX. Now they have new cards coming out that will support DirectX 10 in Vista. Basically, what I'm saying X1300 is the total minimum from the lineup, the kind that is used in lower end desktops. I would recommend something like 9600/9800 XT, as the price is about the same compared to X1300. I just got a nice 9600 XT for my spare computer at around $45 plus shipping. Well, this all applies, assuming you have AGP video card.
I've seen one 9600XT with a big heatsink and no fan. It will cost you a bit extra, but might be worth it, if you want less noise in your computer. These little fans generate quite some noise. It's more fun when you can hear the game, not the computer.:)
AtomSmasher:
The X1300 may be bottom of the line in the current gen of cards, but it should still be powerful enough to run the games you want. My advice is to try the games on that computer, if something isn't running at full speed, then start worrying about upgrading. No point in upgrading until you know that you need to do it.