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Title: What speed pc do people use and whats your setup?
Post by: delta88 on April 13, 2004, 06:01:44 pm
Unsure if this poll has been done or not.
 I was just looking to see what kinda pc's people were usin and then depending on your pc spec what software setup you are using. I.e. : OS and Fe and emulators and such.

In my mind this would help some of us out.. yes? no?

thx
 d88

oh yeah,
I've done
166 126mb EDO
233 256mb
300 196mb
1ghz 512mb
2.0ghz 256mb
2.5ghz 512mb
3.4ghz 64bit 1gig

 Always fusin with arcade Os and win 98 on the older pc's but runnin Mamewah and xp on anything over a gig.
Title: Re:What speed pc do people use and whats your setup?
Post by: SpamMe on April 13, 2004, 07:37:45 pm
CPU:
AMD 1700xp

OS
WinXP

Frontend
Mamewah

Emulators
MAME
FCEU
ZSNES
Project64

Other Software
Some PC Games
Winamp 5
ViPlay
Title: Re:What speed pc do people use and whats your setup?
Post by: TalkingOctopus on April 13, 2004, 08:54:11 pm
Hey delta. Here are my specs:  I am happy with my setup.  

CPU:
PIII 733

Memory:
256 PC100 SDRAM

OS
WinXP

Frontend
Mamewah

Emulators
MAME 66
ZSNES
Gens
Meka
z26
VitruaNes
ePSXe

Other Software
None
Title: Re:What speed pc do people use and whats your setup?
Post by: IceCold on April 13, 2004, 09:08:46 pm
Right now I'm using...
Hardware wise - Athlon1.1ghz, 128mb of ram
Software wise - fedora core 1 Linux, and advancemenu for the frontend.
Title: Re:What speed pc do people use and whats your setup?
Post by: maraxle on April 13, 2004, 09:18:54 pm
CPU:
Duron 600

Memory:
160mb PC100 SDRAM

OS
FreeDOS

Frontend
AdvanceMenu

Emulators
AdvanceMAME 0.78

Other Software
None

It handles everything up to Street Fighter II, minus the Mortal Kombats and NARC.
Title: Re:What speed pc do people use and whats your setup?
Post by: cdbrown on April 13, 2004, 10:45:16 pm
CPU:
Athlon XP+1800 (@1.98GHz)

Memory:
2x256MB DDR2700 (333)

OS:
XP Pro

Frontend:
mame32 - just for the moment
Title: Re:What speed pc do people use and whats your setup?
Post by: Mr. Dude on April 14, 2004, 06:30:10 am
CPU: 866 MHZ

MEMORY: 512 MB SDRAM

FRONTEND: MAMEWAH

EMULATORS: MAME32 PLUS, ZSNES, GENS, NNNESTERJ, ZINC, MAGIC ENGINE, KAWAKS, VISUAL PINBALL, PJ64, U64, PC GAMES

Title: Re:What speed pc do people use and whats your setup?
Post by: Teknique on April 14, 2004, 07:15:32 am
CPU: 1800+ Athlon

Memory: 256 DDR 2700

OS: Win XP

Front End: Dragon King

Emus: VirtuaNES, ZNES, Project64, Gens, Daphne
Title: Re:What speed pc do people use and whats your setup?
Post by: Khenemet Heru on April 14, 2004, 11:37:52 am
Current system going in my cab:

AMD Athlon XP 2000+
512MB PC2700 DDR RAM
nVidia GeForce 2 MX400 (64MB DDR 4x AGP)
WinXP Pro
MAMEWAH + NoNameMAME... Nebula, Modeler, Zinc... Playing around with Project 64 too (runs nearly fullspeed on all the (!) ROMs)... I'm going to add Daphne, SNES, Genesis, and all the rest later.
Title: Re:What speed pc do people use and whats your setup?
Post by: SirPeale on April 14, 2004, 01:00:47 pm
Intel Pentium 2 with 128M of RAM, ATI Rage video card.
Title: Re:What speed pc do people use and whats your setup?
Post by: subcriminal on April 14, 2004, 02:56:23 pm
Athlon XP2200+
256MB PC2100 RAM
Ultimarc ArcadeVGA + Amped Lead
IPAC 4
Windows 98SE
MAMEWAH
Title: Re:What speed pc do people use and whats your setup?
Post by: BULL on April 14, 2004, 04:26:57 pm
XP 2400+
512 MB
120 GB
Arcade3D FE

MAME
VPinball
ZSNESWFE
Nemu64
WGensFE
MEKAW
VirtuaNES

Am working on a cab for my brother with Pentium 200MHz 64MB 6GB
Arcade OS
Vantage

Looking for a vertical dos jukebox for it as well.
Title: Re:What speed pc do people use and whats your setup?
Post by: PacManFan on April 14, 2004, 04:44:14 pm
I've built a bunch of cabs now, everything from a pII 166 to a p4 2.2ghz

Here's my current setup:
System:
Athlon XP2200+
512MB PC2100 RAM
ATI Radeon 7500

Interface:
IPAC 2

OS:
Windows XP Home

Front End:
Kymaera

Emulators:
Mame.62 , z26

I've got a bunch of kids games configured too for my little one's.

-PMF
Title: Re:What speed pc do people use and whats your setup?
Post by: Brad Lee on April 15, 2004, 10:15:26 am
p4, 1.6
1gb of ram
ati 7500 radeon AIW
soundblaster 5.1+

my last build before this upgrade was a p3 750, 256ram, same cards

I don't really think I'll be doing any more upgrades, hardware-wise, other than drives maybe. Currently Ive got a 6gig(i think) for my OS, and a 40gig for games
Title: Re:What speed pc do people use and whats your setup?
Post by: greywolf22 on April 15, 2004, 05:02:53 pm
Athlon XP 2400+
256 MB PC2100 DDR
Geforce3 card
Windows XP
Mame32

(overkill yes...but I built a new PC for me, so my mame machine got my leftovers)  :)
Title: Re:What speed pc do people use and whats your setup?
Post by: delta88 on April 21, 2004, 12:30:51 pm
overkill? thats the perfect setup. I found that an AMD xp 2500 512 megs is a great setup that if done the right way will start up and shutdown super fast.. actually my fav
Title: Re:What speed pc do people use and whats your setup?
Post by: yeets on April 21, 2004, 05:05:00 pm
My setup:
Athlon XP2800+
512MB PC2700 RAM
ArcadeVGA
D9200 monitor

OS:
Windows XP Pro

Front End:
Mamewah

Emulators:
Mame.79
Zsnes
GensFE
Project64
Daphne
Vpinmame

Misc:
Some pc games
Virtual Music Jukebox


Title: Re:What speed pc do people use and whats your setup?
Post by: Malachai on April 23, 2004, 10:39:42 am
Here's mine:
Duron 900MHz
256MB PC-100
RADEON 7000 32MB
SB 16 ISA

OS:
Windows 98' SE

FE:

Gamelauncher (For some reason I love this thing?)

Interface:
IPAC4 (2 players with 2 joys/7 buttons each)
Oscar hacked USB mouse (for spinner)

Emulators:
Mame .77
ZiNc
u64Emu (to slow to run KI in MAME  :'( )
GensFE

Other Software:
Tempest 2000 for PC
Title: Re:What speed pc do people use and whats your setup?
Post by: Minwah on April 23, 2004, 12:03:01 pm
PC:
P4 2.8Ghz 800FSB
512MB RAM
80GB SATA HDD

OS
WinXP

Frontend
Mamewah

Emulators
MAME
(Gens & ZSNES in future)

Other Software
None

I'm in the minority with the P4, I decided on this mainly as they tend to run cooler / not require as much cooling as quick AMD's.  I don't want to hear any noise from this PC, so I got a Zalman silent PSU and a CoolerMaster blower CPU fan.  The CPU fan can be heard at high revs, but it can be slowed down quite a lot since it pushes more air than regular axial fans.  My desktop AMD system works great but is as loud as a vacuum cleaner!!  :D
Title: Re:What speed pc do people use and whats your setup?
Post by: paigeoliver on November 19, 2004, 02:43:06 pm
"Galaga" cabinet.

CPU: Pentium 2 - 350 mhz

OS
WIN98se

Frontend
Advancemenu

Emulators
MAMEpp.exe .60



"Gorf" cocktail

CPU:
K6-2 300 mhz

OS
MSDOS 6.22

Frontend
arcadeos

Emulators
mame (super old version)



Big nameless cabinet

CPU:
AMD Athlon 1200

OS
Windows 98se

Frontend
Mamewah

Emulators
MAME
FCEU
ZSNES
Project64
vboy
mekaw
Daphne (not in frontend)


Previous cabs (all mame only, all either mamewah or gamelauncher, all win98se)
Celeron 400 (three of these)
Athlon 650
P3 - 500 (2 of these)
P3 - 733 (2 of these)
Pentium 200 (ran Defender only)
K6-2 500

Others I can't remember anymore.
Title: Re:What speed pc do people use and whats your setup?
Post by: Will on November 19, 2004, 04:14:53 pm
My system is an overkill but hey its the slowest computer I had access to.
p4 2.4 ghz
768 megs of ram
200 gig harddrive
arcade vga 9200 version
older creative labs sound card.
Title: Re:What speed pc do people use and whats your setup?
Post by: Crazy Cooter on November 19, 2004, 08:20:40 pm
Slowest... (for now)
Duron 600 @ 1Ghz
128MB PC-150 Mushkin
GeForce 2mx with TV out (on living room TV)
SB Live! (hooked to home theater)

OS:
Win 98se

FE:
MAME32  :(

Interface:
Old school IPAC
2-player fighter setup
Crystal trackball
All mounted in a junky mdf box

Emulator:
Mame 0.57

Other Software:
Media Player
DVD crap

Others: 133 (mini project), 500 (full cab project), 2400+
Non-MAME'd: Parents notebook, Girlies 1400+, Garage-box P66 (has pdf car manuals & internet)
That about covers all the computers in the house (that are currently functional). ;)
Title: Re:What speed pc do people use and whats your setup?
Post by: Tritoch84 on November 19, 2004, 11:26:16 pm
CPU: 1.8 P4,
RAM: 256
EMULATORS: MAME, Kawaks.

I'm running the video out of my computer to my nearby arcade cabinet with s-video in (to TV).  And hacked PS controllers from my USB to the CP.

This allows me to play PS2 games with simple switching, and my computer is in the same room, and it's the only one I have, so this works perfectly.