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| Chris2:
Hey y'all. I'm going to be building a new PC for my cabinet and was wondering what others were using. I know for sure that I'll be using Windows XP(at least for now) and will want to play a lot of recent games (late 90's, early 00's). Any suggestions? |
| Strife:
Single-core Pentium IV - as fast as you can find/your budget will allow. 3 GB RAM. 500 - 750 GB HD. Basic sound card and video card with TV output (assuming you're using a TV as your monitor). |
| TelcoLou:
My test set-up: Old Sony VAIO laptop 2.4Ghz Pentium 4 512MB RAM 32MB on-board Radion 7500C video ^ this runs ~90% of the games I've tested at full-speed, so I'll be building a new PC with better specs for it's permanent home in my cab. .. but 3GB RAM?? isn't that overkill? I was planning on 2GB, max ... ??? |
| Strife:
RAM is cheap and 3 GB is the max that XP home will recognize. It can only help and the incremental cost vs. 2 GB is minimal. |
| TelcoLou:
Makes sense :) I haven't bough RAM in like ... 3 or 4 years now LOL |
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