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What brand of PC is in your cabinet?
kelemvor:
Back in the day....
You used to be able to build a PC that killed anything off the shelf when you pieced it together on your own.
However in today's world, unless you need a sup'd up mega powerful, gaming PC, you can get just as good if not better of a deal by buying something premade (Dell or otherwise) than going through the hassle of doing it yourself.
But since Mame only needs specific things to work I don't think it'd make a huge difference either way.
loadman:
--- Quote from: kelemvor on October 13, 2007, 11:16:16 pm ---Back in the day....
You used to be able to build a PC that killed anything off the shelf when you pieced it together on your own.
However in today's world, unless you need a sup'd up mega powerful, gaming PC, you can get just as good if not better of a deal by buying something premade (Dell or otherwise) than going through the hassle of doing it yourself.
--- End quote ---
AMEN to that Brother.. I used to save my family and friends $$$$$ by building PC's for them.
Not worth it these days
urbecrisch:
I bought a gateway tower off of ubid.com for my cab. You can find some pretty good deals there. To lazy to get the specs now but it plays everthing I throw at it and I didn't have to waste money buying unnecessary components like the keyboard, mouse, and monitor.
southpaw13:
So I am running mame 106 and need to update this winter to the newest AND I want to build a new computer. Will I get better performance with a dual core? Which is the better video card for Mame now (Nvidia or ATI)?
Thanks...
tommy:
Mame does not work off of your video card and dual core is an overkill unless you're running a heavy cpu emulator like the PS2 emu or gamecube emu.