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Title: a few to many beers. I bought this
Post by: daywane on April 19, 2005, 09:07:53 pm

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5182780668&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOAB:US:6
well is it worth the money?
I did pay for it and its on the way. I do need 3 more PCs but I really was not ready for them yet.
how big of a PC would you toss in this cab to MAME?
I am planing a 1.2 gig dell PC for this one.

Title: Re: a few to many beers. I bought this
Post by: crashwg on April 19, 2005, 09:49:03 pm

Next time I'd look for something with ram.  It's not exactly expensive, but if you don't have any lying arround you're going to have to track some down and spend a couple extra bucks.  Ram is realy something that should be comming with a pc like that, there's no reason to pull it.

Title: Re: a few to many beers. I bought this
Post by: paigeoliver on April 19, 2005, 11:06:33 pm

That PC is more than enough for that cabinet. I assume you are going with the stock controls? Are you going to use the original black and white monitor, or a color one?

Title: Re: a few to many beers. I bought this
Post by: quarterback on April 20, 2005, 12:03:42 am

Quote from: crashwg on April 19, 2005, 09:49:03 pm

Next time I'd look for something with ram.

Title: Re: a few to many beers. I bought this
Post by: delta88 on April 20, 2005, 12:24:50 am

If your nice SkateDetroit has 256 mb in 2 stix he might give up. youd have to bribe him thugh.. remember ram is small and easy to ship ;)

Title: Re: a few to many beers. I bought this
Post by: daywane on April 20, 2005, 07:52:06 am

Quote from: paigeoliver on April 19, 2005, 11:06:33 pm

That PC is more than enough for that cabinet. I assume you are going with the stock controls? Are you going to use the original black and white monitor, or a color one?

I will change the monitor.
I want color.
I will stay with the stock controls. I think i will toss in USB so when needed I can hook up 2 sidewinder steering wheels. I have 2 ( If I can find out what wife did with power supplies to them )

Title: Re: a few to many beers. I bought this
Post by: daywane on April 20, 2005, 07:56:34 am

Quote from: delta88 on April 20, 2005, 12:24:50 am

If your nice SkateDetroit has 256 mb in 2 stix he might give up. youd have to bribe him thugh.. remember ram is small and easy to ship ;)

thanks I shal look him up.

Title: Re: a few to many beers. I bought this
Post by: daywane on April 25, 2005, 09:06:07 pm

PC came in today.
wow this thing is strange.
never seen a CPU like this.
fits in a slot like a over size pci slot. bigest honking heat sink I ever saw.
no cpu fan. 2 case fans blow on it
I would take a pic but camera is out of batteries

Title: Re: a few to many beers. I bought this
Post by: maraxle on April 25, 2005, 10:37:30 pm

Yeah, that's an older-style slot 1 P3.  They also made P2's like that.  That RDRAM is pretty expensive.  I have 512mb in a PC of mine, and it cost an arm and a leg (which is why I'm typing so slow... haha).

Title: Re: a few to many beers. I bought this
Post by: daywane on April 26, 2005, 08:29:25 am

heard ya. 8)
its not cheep.