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glenn m:
My wife has finally caved and is going to let me assemble my machine. 

I have a decent low profile tower that will be adapted for this, it's a triple core 2.2ghz with 1gb of ram.  So decent and workable for most emulators and such.  I do want to throw a better video card in it though as I would like to run some more modern systems at a decent speed, like Dreamcast and possibly even some Wii games (Such as NSMB and Muramasa).  Also my son is begging me to get Skylanders to run on it and without a graphics card I don't think it will be possible (Giants recommends either a GeForce 8800 GS or Radeon HD 2600 Pro).  Anyways, I'd like to send no more than say $50 on it.  Right now I've been looking at an ATI Radeon HD5450 1GB, but I am so out of touch with modern PC gaming I am not even sure if that will run well. 

Any pointers would be very helpful. 

Thanks,
Glenn

BobA:
You can get the 5450 in Canada right now for less than $20 so it should be even cheaper in the US.

Tiger Direct CA link

ark_ader:

--- Quote from: BobA on January 02, 2013, 03:05:45 am ---You can get the 5450 in Canada right now for less than $20 so it should be even cheaper in the US.

Tiger Direct CA link

--- End quote ---

+1

I have the 5450 in the weecade and it rocks!

Good choice.   :applaud:

glenn m:
Thanks guys, I'm thinking I may bite the bullet on this and hope it works well, BTW Tiger Direct USA was running the same deal. 
Hopefully it fills my meager needs well enough. 

chopperthedog:

--- Quote from: glenn m on January 02, 2013, 02:14:39 am ---My wife has finally caved and is going to let me assemble my machine.

--- End quote ---
You told her. >:D


good day.

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