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Lilwolf:
goto www.pricewatch.com and look around. 

for 90% of the games will run on a 2ghz machine and slower... probably in the 1.4 or so...

to get 95-97% your looking at a 3.4ghz machine.... and 97-98 if you use Zinc for those games...  And don't forget... 1- 2% of the games will not run on any computer at all.

But its amazing how many games play great without a super computer...

I would personally look at the fastest AMD XP processor.  But if you went with a AmD64 you will have an extra coolness factor :)

Pik4chu:

--- Quote from: Lilwolf on September 07, 2005, 03:50:48 pm ---goto www.pricewatch.com and look around.
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RayB:
You know, 64 megs was plenty to run even early 90's capcom and neo geo games...

The only thing that sucks up ram is running a recent OS like XP.

Pik4chu:

--- Quote from: RayB on September 07, 2005, 11:15:36 pm ---You know, 64 megs was plenty to run even early 90's capcom and neo geo games...

The only thing that sucks up ram is running a recent OS like XP.


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True, but did you know it costs more to buy (retail/new) a 128MB stick of PC100 SDRAM than it costs to buy 256-512MB of PC3200 DDR? by like 2x.. soo you can only go so far back before its costing more :)  But if you got a cheapo computer sitting around then your good to go.  The only thing that rules out really old ones is the lack of an AGP slot for the ArcadeVGA cards

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