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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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