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Gettin a motherboard + parts.
drventure:
--- Quote ---You think I can get away with the cheapest CPU for my use?
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Well, that's not quite what I was getting at.
MacGreen posted a link to a 60 in 1 board, which I don't think was what you had in mind. A 60 in 1 is basically a "hardwired" board that has, say, 60 game roms burned into it, plus a minimal front end of some sort. It's not a general purpose PC, so you can't really typically put your own apps on it (Maybe that is actually possible, but from what I understand, it's not typical).
When you mentioned wanting to run Hyperspin, that told me you were really more interested in a typical PC mobo/cpu type system, with a Harddrive stocked with an OS (Windows, if your wanting Hyperspin), emulators and roms.
As I understand it, Hyperspin can require pretty hefty CPU and graphics power to do all the slick graphics stuff it does. Mame generally doesn't need much CPU to emulate the older 80's/90's games.
If you want to run anything other than mame (same visual pinball or FuturePinball), then absolutely, you'll need a faster CPU and a decent GPU. Basically, anything that does 3d rendering. But mame doesn't do that, so it's not critical if Mame is the only thing you'll run.
I picked up an AMD Athlon Phenom II CPU/mobo combo several years back for something like 80$. It runs virtually all the mame stuff, Future Pin, Visual Pin, plus games like FoFix (Guitar hero clone) and StepMania (DDR clone) fantastic.
Vulgar Soul:
--- Quote from: drventure on December 20, 2011, 11:31:27 pm ---
--- Quote ---You think I can get away with the cheapest CPU for my use?
--- End quote ---
Well, that's not quite what I was getting at.
MacGreen posted a link to a 60 in 1 board, which I don't think was what you had in mind. A 60 in 1 is basically a "hardwired" board that has, say, 60 game roms burned into it, plus a minimal front end of some sort. It's not a general purpose PC, so you can't really typically put your own apps on it (Maybe that is actually possible, but from what I understand, it's not typical).
When you mentioned wanting to run Hyperspin, that told me you were really more interested in a typical PC mobo/cpu type system, with a Harddrive stocked with an OS (Windows, if your wanting Hyperspin), emulators and roms.
As I understand it, Hyperspin can require pretty hefty CPU and graphics power to do all the slick graphics stuff it does. Mame generally doesn't need much CPU to emulate the older 80's/90's games.
If you want to run anything other than mame (same visual pinball or FuturePinball), then absolutely, you'll need a faster CPU and a decent GPU. Basically, anything that does 3d rendering. But mame doesn't do that, so it's not critical if Mame is the only thing you'll run.
I picked up an AMD Athlon Phenom II CPU/mobo combo several years back for something like 80$. It runs virtually all the mame stuff, Future Pin, Visual Pin, plus games like FoFix (Guitar hero clone) and StepMania (DDR clone) fantastic.
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Thank you for this advice. I really only had MAME/HS and MAME roms in mind. No other emulators or software for this cab. I also want to take advantage of HLSL which needs a decent graphics card from at least the past 3 or so years. Figure I can pick up an NVidia 8 series card cheap. This is why I wanted to get only the necessary parts to save money for somethin I'm usin for MAME roms and other minimal MAME related processes.
Green Giant:
I would imagine something like http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813186212 would cover your needs. Maybe even this guy http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138295
With 2-4GB ram each drive should be right at or under $100 total. I can't imagine how these would have trouble with mame since they can handle much more intensive stuff.
Vulgar Soul:
--- Quote from: Green Giant on December 21, 2011, 02:21:01 am ---I would imagine something like http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813186212 would cover your needs. Maybe even this guy http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138295
With 2-4GB ram each drive should be right at or under $100 total. I can't imagine how these would have trouble with mame since they can handle much more intensive stuff.
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Those look good, I like those CPU + VGA + MOBO options. Do you think the CPUs included on these boards are good enough for Hyperspin and HLSL?
GregD:
If you have a microcenter near you they off pretty good mother board/cpu combos. The Phenom II should be fine for your needs.
http://www.microcenter.com/specials/promotions/AMDbundlePROMO.html
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