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Title: Thinking about putting this PC together for MAME...
Post by: orangelounge on September 06, 2006, 10:46:34 pm: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2212297&Sku=M452-2630%20H

Does a 3.2Ghz Celeron D seem like it'll perform well enough for most games currently emulated? My PIII 733 tends to lag while using GameEx, and I was thinking that this would be a good upgrade. Anyone agree?

I'd be using my NVidia GeForce 4 MX420 with S-Video out for my TV that I use as a screen.

What kind of boxes do you guys run? Thanks a lot.
Title: Re: Thinking about putting this PC together for MAME...
Post by: missioncontrol on September 06, 2006, 11:48:22 pm: meh..... I wouldn't put any money into Tiger Direct's pockets....

if it's got a rebate don't plan on getting it.....
Title: Re: Thinking about putting this PC together for MAME...
Post by: Outrun on September 07, 2006, 03:53:09 am: Hi There,

I don't think you'll have any problems running with that setup really. The PC i currently run in my unfinished cab is only a lowly PIII 1ghz with a Geforce3TI 500 card & this seems to run the latest roms very well. I always found GameEx to run a little slow though so i ditched it in favour of MameWah.

Hope this helps

Steve
Title: Re: Thinking about putting this PC together for MAME...
Post by: orangelounge on September 07, 2006, 07:10:08 am: Yeah.. I would use Mamewah, but, I can't seem to figure out how to import a "reduced" gamelist... I removed a bunch of "junk" roms, like, Mahjong games, adult games, japanese puzzle games I'll never play...

But, I can't seem to figure out how to get this reduced amount of games into Mamewah. While we're at it, does anyone have any suggestions for this? Thanks!
Title: Re: Thinking about putting this PC together for MAME...
Post by: divemaster127 on September 07, 2006, 09:43:23 am: I would not order from tigerdirect, newegg is a great company & overall good prices
dm
Title: Re: Thinking about putting this PC together for MAME...
Post by: orangelounge on September 07, 2006, 03:27:34 pm: Yeah, I almost always order from Newegg, but Tigerdirect always has some killer prices on Barebones systems. Newegg doesn't have anything that can rival that price.
Title: Re: Thinking about putting this PC together for MAME...
Post by: MPTech on September 07, 2006, 10:52:54 pm: I bought several barebones for friends and family from Tigerdirect. When I had problems, they always took care of them.
I just built a new MAME cab & PC earlier this year and got all of the parts from Tigerdirect.

That looks like a pretty good deal and should work well!
Title: Re: Thinking about putting this PC together for MAME...
Post by: orangelounge on September 07, 2006, 11:28:12 pm: Excellent.. thanks a lot!
Title: Re: Thinking about putting this PC together for MAME...
Post by: emerica on September 08, 2006, 08:37:34 am: I had a problem using paypal with tigerdirect. Took about two weeks to process my order. Never ordered from them again. I stick to newegg for my orders after trying to deal with tigerdirects customer service.
Title: Re: Thinking about putting this PC together for MAME...
Post by: zudmsc on September 08, 2006, 09:06:04 am: Tiger Direct is down the street from me. I hope over there from time to time to see if they have any specials or closeouts. They have cheap cases and MB's, not so on the processors. I am looking into building a new system for myself and use my old P4 2.6Ghz to run MAME.

Zud
Title: Re: Thinking about putting this PC together for MAME...
Post by: Outrun on September 08, 2006, 01:14:12 pm: Orangelounge - PM just sent re easy way of getting rid/hiding roms from your FE