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Donkbaca:
Actually, the whole point of the newer 3d emulators is that you don't need as much horespower to use it as you do to run MAME.  So I disagree.

You don't need a case if you are putting it in the cab, just screw it down to one of the walls using standoffs.

To put things into persepctive; there are probably, what 10 games that you would be able to run with a new $500 pc that you wouldn't be able to run with a free, or next to free 3ghz P4. 

newmanfamilyvlogs:
http://forums.pcsx2.net/Thread-How-to-run-PCSX2-faster-with-Pentium-4
PCSX2 being listed as being too slow on a 3.0Ghz P4.

http://forums.dolphin-emulator.com/showthread.php?tid=8121
Dolphin being listed as running at between 40-70% on a 3.0Ghz P4.


On the flip side though:
http://www.1emulation.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=28088
NullDC being listed as running acceptably on a 3.0Ghz P4 w/GeForce 5200FX.


Bottom line, depends on what you want to play and what you want to pay.

Cynicaster:

--- Quote from: Donkbaca on July 18, 2011, 11:44:32 am ---
To put things into persepctive; there are probably, what 10 games that you would be able to run with a new $500 pc that you wouldn't be able to run with a free, or next to free 3ghz P4. 

--- End quote ---

I've always kind of wondered about this.

Care to list some examples that might be on that short list?



fallacy:

--- Quote ---http://forums.pcsx2.net/Thread-How-to-run-PCSX2-faster-with-Pentium-4
PCSX2 being listed as being too slow on a 3.0Ghz P4.

http://forums.dolphin-emulator.com/showthread.php?tid=8121
Dolphin being listed as running at between 40-70% on a 3.0Ghz P4.


On the flip side though:
http://www.1emulation.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=28088
NullDC being listed as running acceptably on a 3.0Ghz P4 w/GeForce 5200FX.


Bottom line, depends on what you want to play and what you want to pay.
--- End quote ---

ya you will not get those emulators to run well on a p4.

Donkbaca:
I don't know much about those emulators, I thought that they didn't run that great to begin with.  I was thinking more along the lines of arcade emulators, and for 500 bucks, you can pretty much get a ps2 and a wii and all the games you would want to play anyway :)

On my P4 3.0 GHZ, the only things that I can play that I can't play on my quad core pc are some of the 3d games, though with model 2 and zinc the virtua fighters and tekken 1-2 work failry well. Tekken 3 has sound emulation issues, so it doesn't run well on any machine.  That's the thing, a lot of the late 90's games have broken emulation, so even on super awesome rigs, they won't run perfectly.  I was in the same spot as you about a year ago.  Was thinking if I should get a brand new PC, use my current PC or what, then a P4 3.0ghz fell into my lap for free, and it does pretty much everything I want it to.  KI2 runs kind of slow, Some CHD games run fine, I can play SFIII without any problems it seems. It wasn't worth it to me to spend a few hundred bucks for a couple of MAME games I wouldn't play that much when 90% of what I want to play works fine with the current setup.  There is SO much to play with 90% of the games available, I don't feel like I am missing much with the games I can't play. 

I have console emus on my cab, I have everything up to Dreamcast, and it all works fine.  THough, I think I may build a little HTPC to handle consoles and hook that up to the TV, most console games don't feel right playing on the cab

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