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Do you guys mind posting what specs you use for your build? Need help/ideas
NewToBuilding:
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--- Quote from: NewToBuilding on May 08, 2013, 07:21:25 pm ---Dang. The first two run fine? What front end do you use?
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first two use mamewah with a slimmed down version of XP
the last two rigs run xp64 with hyperspin.
You'd be surprised at how well the itx units run for being a basically 13+ year old tech. I can pretty much play nearly all 2d games that mame 0.106 supports. Not to mention i can play all nes, snes, genesis/megadrive etc.
I can run up to tekken with no frameskip enabled on the old pentium D unit. Same for the athlon X2 model. in addition, i can play Street fighter 4 on that athlon model thanks to the graphics card.
my suggestion is, if you are on a tight budget and cannot afford bleeding edge tech for your mame cab and are not going to be playing bleeding edge emulated games (ps2 for example) consider looking on newegg, amazon, zipzoomfly etc for closeout deals on slightly older tech like core2 quad or athlon/phenom x4 stuff etc.
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Awesome. I think I'll stick to my original system configuration then :)
NewToBuilding:
--- Quote from: wesbrown18 on May 08, 2013, 08:33:18 pm ---
--- Quote from: NewToBuilding on May 08, 2013, 06:19:53 pm ---Total cost is $334.80.
Being a poor college student, I'm trying to keep the cost as low as possible.
Can you guys post your specs and the frontend you're using? Maybe the items in my cart are over kill.
I just want to play some good MAME, NES, SNES, Genesis games :) Some of the mame games will be the most power hungry resources as I want to play some "newer" MAME games
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Don't run Hyperspin, then.
Seriously, I don't understand why people do this to themselves. Hyperspin is far more intensive than the emulators in question! If you can't afford a machine that can run Hyperspin, then don't get a machine that can run Hyperspin and use many of the other excellent front ends out there.
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I guess I didn't realize how bad hyperspin is in regards to resources it needs.
I have $600 in amazon gift cards, so I can afford it, it's just that I'd prefer to keep the costs low as possible.
Thanks for the input!
BadMouth:
You said you wanted to run "newer" MAME games. What games did you have in mind? All the replies are about running 2D games on an OLD version of MAME. Not everyone will be satisfied with that. A lot of games were added or promoted to working after v106.
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404:
--- Quote from: NewToBuilding on May 08, 2013, 09:52:41 pm ---I guess I didn't realize how bad hyperspin is in regards to resources it needs.
I have $600 in amazon gift cards, so I can afford it, it's just that I'd prefer to keep the costs low as possible.
Thanks for the input!
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It's really up to you. I will 100% concede with westbrown13 on his assessment of hyperspin though. Sometimes its so resource intensive that it almost defeats the purpose. Worst of all, it has no gpu acceleration support.
--- Quote from: BadMouth on May 08, 2013, 10:15:23 pm ---You said you wanted to run "newer" MAME games. What games did you have in mind? All the replies are about running 2D games on an OLD version of MAME. Not everyone will be satisfied with that. A lot of games were added or promoted to working after v106.
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My last two configs in my post used mame 0.142
DLinkOZ:
Also check CL. I can pick up reasonable C2D machines with a few gigs of ram all day long for $100 or less.
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