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AMD AM3 an ok choice?

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BadMouth:

--- Quote from: fluentd on September 27, 2012, 03:17:03 pm ---http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GeForce-Express-Graphics-01G-P3-1302-LR/dp/B0049MPQA4/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1348773315&sr=1-1

If this is sufficient enough I think its a good buy. Not really sure how much the GPU comes into play with emulators?

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MAME only uses the video card for scaling and special effects like scanlines. 
If you aren't using those features and only wanted to run MAME, you could probably get by with the onboard video.
Onboard video would probably be good enough for Sega Model 2 emulator. 
Not as sure about NullDC and Demul.  I have an 8600GT in all my systems.  They're old, but have s-vid out and get the job done.
I'm completely lost when it comes to the nomenclature on new video cards.

fluentd:
ok awesome.. I will try it out with the onboard video and see how it goes.. if it needs a boost then I will throw in a video card.

molton:
AMD typically gives you more bang for your buck despite what you hear, go AMD for processor and video IMO, and many AMD video cards are a little less power hungry than NVIDIA from what i've seen.  For mame what matters more than the amount of cores is how fast each individual core is, I wouldn't get less than 3.0 ghz per core. AMD also integrates video into their new line of A processors, they work much better than intel integrated graphics.

Yenome:
thats the same cpu i use for my main gaming rig. its awesome. Unless you need svideo out i wouldnt even bother with a gpu as that mobo has vga,dvi and hdmi for video output. Also as to xp and memory xp can use up to 128gb of memory. yea thats right. use the 64 bit version. 4gb limit only applies to the 32bit versions of all windows os.

fluentd:
Just found this deal on newegg.

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with promo code EMCYTZT2268 makes it 94.99

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