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Title: Question about Arcade Cabinet PC
Post by: faust90 on July 30, 2019, 10:01:54 am

Hello,

I've been trying to find out if my old pc specs will be able to run with LaunchBox/Big Box and run the games well.

The specs I have are:

AMD FX 8320
AMD Radeon HD 6950
8 gb RAM

I'm not opposed to buying new parts for the arcade PC, but if I have working parts, I may as well use them! Thank you!

Title: Re: Question about Arcade Cabinet PC
Post by: Beretta on September 10, 2019, 02:27:28 am

Haven't used either of those but shouldn't have any issues what so ever running smoothly..

give it a try if you haven't already 6gb of that ram will probably never see any use.

Title: Re: Question about Arcade Cabinet PC
Post by: markiej on September 16, 2019, 10:37:40 am

plenty and then some for MAME, and pretty much anything up to and including Dreamcast/Naomi. 

While you probably don't have a spare lying around, an SSD is a great bang for the buck add-on.  Even a $20 128GB SSD to boot the OS, and run your front end (with all the pics and videos that have to load in real time), and maybe your MAME roms, if they fit. Makes a huge difference for the cost of a trip to McD's for two.

Title: Re: Question about Arcade Cabinet PC
Post by: keilmillerjr on September 16, 2019, 03:28:18 pm

For mame, your specs are excellent.