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newmanfamilyvlogs:
should be more than sufficient for most anything you want to run.

wweumina:
There's not a lot of amd love around here, but an athlon II or phenom II are also great bang for your buck and motherboards are super cheap too.

drventure:
That combo looks good except for the case and harddrive (if the machine's going in a cabinet, you don't need a case, though it doesn't hurt). the HD is only 500gb. That may or may not be enough, depending on your plans.

honkey:
I think I will go this route. I am really hoping that most games will play 100% without skipping frames. Right now on my 2.66 GHz P4, I can get most games to run full speed without looking choppy, but the video looks blurry.

What could possibly need more than 500 GB? Even if I had every rom for MAME, with chd's and BIOS, that is still just around 20 gigs right?

drventure:
You may want to do all the screenshots, videos, background audio etc for your front end, and if you run a jukebox on it, there's all the MP3's. Then there may be additional games or additional emulators (like SNES or Atari, etc) you may eventually want to run.

of course, if you don't do that, 500gb would likely be more than enough.

That's odd about the frame skipping on that level machine. That could very well be the video card or the drivers you have installed. I had an older ATI at one point and I found that I HAD to run an older set of drivers because the newer sets (up until the very latest sets from about 6 months ago) caused all sorts of problems.

However, I updated several months back and haven't had any more issues.

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