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protokatie:
Just out of curiosity, why do you absolutely need a dual core machine? I don't know what your exact plans are, but for a pinball machine that has 2 video outputs, I simply do not see the need for even a 2 Ghz single core machine. What are you planning on displaying on the screens? If it is just video, then a single core would do, and if it is 3d stuff, the vid card would do most of that work.
As a point of reference: My last laptop was a single core 2Ghz machine that I had 2 screens attached. I would often have one screen showing a movie as I played a game on the other screen (usually Dungeon Siege). This all with a bunch of programs running in the background and often a torrent DL or two in progress. I never hit 100% cpu doing this. And bear in mind, this was a laptop AMD processor too.

Malenko:
woot.com has a "good" one for $300 +$5shipping

LLUncoolJ:

--- Quote from: protokatie on August 14, 2009, 02:45:14 am ---Just out of curiosity, why do you absolutely need a dual core machine? I don't know what your exact plans are, but for a pinball machine that has 2 video outputs, I simply do not see the need for even a 2 Ghz single core machine. What are you planning on displaying on the screens? If it is just video, then a single core would do, and if it is 3d stuff, the vid card would do most of that work.
As a point of reference: My last laptop was a single core 2Ghz machine that I had 2 screens attached. I would often have one screen showing a movie as I played a game on the other screen (usually Dungeon Siege). This all with a bunch of programs running in the background and often a torrent DL or two in progress. I never hit 100% cpu doing this. And bear in mind, this was a laptop AMD processor too.

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Let's pretend I'm not an IT expert. I asked Rob specifically about the dual core and he said it was necessary. I run a dual core in my MAME just because that was the pc I got my hands on. I'm not sure if FP is optomized for a DC processor or what.

One screen..a wide screen,  will be mounted rotated 90 degrees. This will be the playfield. FP will also be rotated. The other will be mounted in a normal position and will display the backglass/scoreboard. The article that describes the minipin is here: http://www.popbumper.com/articles/GR/2008-10%20MiniPin.pdf

protokatie:
Ahh, this is why I was confused. I didn't realize that it was a virtualpin type deal. I thought you were building a mechanical pin that happened to have two screen outputs, not one screen AS the playfield (damn you! You got me interested in doing this kind of pin project! Luckily I have no room for such a thing... :<).

my bad.

SpeedEng:
here you go

http://www.portatech.com/25351/Product/Barebones_with_Intel_CPU.htm

change options to e2200 120 shipped for a barebones

or
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.230558

or

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.230559

or

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.230561

add ram
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820134797
1stick of ddr2 2gb for 23.99 shipped

there you go all under 150 :) for a barebones + ram

ok back to lurker mode ;)

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