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PC have enough juice?
jugger18:
I am building a mini (Tiny Pilot clone) arcade mainly for the kids. It will run mostly MAME with maybe NES/SNES. Will an amd fusion e350 apu (with a discrete graphics card) have enough power?
Benzinbruder:
Depends on your components.
E.g., the new nvidia 750 Ti cards are known to consume much less power than the older comparable cards.
You gotta check your equipment.
In any case, if you're not aiming for minimal power consumption, I'd say you should at least opt for a 400 W or 450 W power supply.
kevvy2006:
Hey Jugger,
Really depends on space needs, as benzinbruder said what graphics card are you using or are you going to use the on board video? Are you going to be running a front-end (such as hyperspin?) because there may be restrictions there also. I have built a few computers into NES's so i am quite familiar with a small form factor. If you give me a better idea of what you are looking to do I can give you some ideas of what boards are better (of course if you did purchase this already).
~Kevin
Malenko:
450 is the minimum Id run on anything remotely modern. better to have too much than not enough, and the price is negligible.
jugger18:
This is a PC I have on hand. 4gb of ram, The AMD fusion e350 APU is the CPU/graphics chip. I would probably toss in a Radeon 5450 graphics card.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813154019 is the cpu/mb
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