Ok, I am not exactly new to this, but I don't have as much technical savvy as some of you out there, so hopefully someone can help me out here.
I already have a fairly substantial emulator and rom collection (about 500 gigs and growing). I have just about every system possible emulated already. But I am looking for optimal preformance as far as getting the most I can out of a pc to run those more difficult things at full speed.
My intial pc was a Dell Optiplex something or other with a P4 2.8Ghz and a Nvidia 6500 card.
Since then I upgraded to a HP Pavilion Phenom 2.2 Quad Core with 4 gigs ram and an integraded Nvidia 9100 video card (i think)
With my Dell, I could already run Dreamcast and PS1 at full speeds, but Gamecube and PS2 were a mere few frames a second, and things like SF4 wouldnt even load.
Now I have increased preformance, but still not at the level I know is possible. (too slow for SF4, ps2 or gc)
Basically my PC has the potential for 16gigs RAM, but I put XP 32 bit on it (cause vista sucks)
I have read that xp maxed out at like 4 gigs ram though. Which is the current amount I have.
I am thinking of jumping toWindows 7,
But really what I want to know is if 64 built build is problematic to game emulatiion for older systems or overall.
and also if as far as more advanced emulation if a higher end video card would have a better preformance increase than the ram upgragde from my current 4 gigs.