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wonkalow:

I have everything for my PC minus Motherboard, and CPU. I was thinking of a mid end intel dual core CPU, and any compatible motherboard I can find... I cant seem to find any solid info on what a pc should or shouldnt have for this kind of thing. Is there really anything specific I should be looking into getting for the PC for an arcade machine? I have what I think is a fairly decent vid card (it was free heh so im hoping anyways) a Geforce fx5200 128 mb card with s-video. and 2gb of ram, so now im just looking at the MB/CPu (unless thats a bad card for some reason). I was thinking whatever motherboard I could pick up off newegg for a decent price would work, as long as it was compatible and had onboard sound, a cheap MB couldnt really slow down the pc could it? as long as it was capable of running what I put on it right? and for CPU I wasnt too sure what was needed, but intel's are fairly cheap so I was going to just get the biggest one I could afford

Jeff AMN:

Yeah, don't break the bank on your PC. MAME runs well on pretty low-end specs, but having a good processor will ensure that you can run way more games at a good speed. With a dual-core processor, you'll be able to pretty much run anything up to pretty recent releases (aside from the games that never work on any machine well).

mrserv0n:

Yea my athlon 4000+ runs everything except most CHD games, I also have a dual core E6600 4mb cache, the only 2 games it can run that the athlon cant smoothly are KI2 and Wargods, but neither will run carnevil or gauntlet legends or anything, and thats about a $200 price difference just for 2 games literally.


tommy:


--- Quote from: Jeff AMN on July 25, 2007, 11:23:35 am ---With a dual-core processor, you'll be able to pretty much run anything up to pretty recent releases

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Dual core is overkill for mame.

falkensmaze:


--- Quote from: tommy on July 25, 2007, 01:52:18 pm ---
Dual core is overkill for mame.

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For mame yes but game emulation can be addictive so you may want more than mame. Also you prob wont want to upgrade for at least 3 years so try find that balance between what you want and what you need.:)

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