OVER KILL?

[Shieldwolf]

Here are the specs for a mame computer I am building:
Video: Radeon 7500 all in wonder card
Sound: SB live value
Memory: 512mg of ddr ram
Hard Drive: 120 gig hard drive I need a large hard drive
Motherboard/Processor athlon 2400-2500 or comparable

I am running zinc, atari,daphne,nes,gen,snes,n64, visual pinball,stepmania
DO I need all of this?
Should I go more or less?

[AlanS17]

That will play ALL the consoles and Zinc with room to spare. I'm not familiar with Stepmania. As for MAME, that should take care of all but maybe 2 or 3 gmes that you can probably get to work fine with tweaking.

So yes it will take care of everything. It's overkill for most applications, but MAME has a few games that need fast computers. If you don't mind not having 5 or 6 games you can go with lower specs, though.

Just so happens that the games you can't play (I, KI2, Area 51, Crusin' USA) are some of my personal favorites.

[Shieldwolf]

are would a faster system let me play those or is that just throwing money away?

[AlanS17]

Everything I'm telling here is speaking from theory since my PC isn't that fast (866MHz), but...

I've heard some people say they can run those few games at a decent speed with top-of-the-line machines. Nothing less will do.

[Shieldwolf]

thnx just saw another post where they said if you really want to play those games you need 4ghz. LOL I think I can do without.

[JayTea]

I play Max Force and Area 51 on my 1800, which is about 1.5 ghz with no problem - very smooth action.  512 mb Ram helps...

Crusin' USA needs serious frame skips to make it work, though.