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Virtualmatt:
I'm going to build a MAME Cocktail Cabinet in a month or so, and I currently only have an old 500mhz Pentium III Dell to build it with.  It has 400 something megs of RAM, an NVidia TNT2 Graphics card, and an 80 gig hard drive.

I installed MAME on it, and it ran older games great - but the gameplay was far to slow on games like Metal Slug and such.

My question is this: What would be the cheapest way to upgrade this computer to ~1ghz so that I could run newer games on it?  I don't have very much money left over after buying most of the cabinet supplies.  I guess I'd need a new motherboard and processor?  Would it be smart to look for these parts on eBay?

Thanks!

hnugz:
you wont run metal slug on a 1ghz either.  I have an amd sempron 2800+ with ecs mobo that I got as a combo at Frys for $70 or $80.  Metal slug slows in parts on that sometimes, not enough to really make gameplay unbearable.  Get at least a 2ghz if you want to run some of the newer type games, otherwise it seems like a waste of money.

SirPoonga:
* SirPoonga sighsFor neogeo use neoragex, kawaks, or nebula as they are more gamer friendly and run on lower specs.  I ran all neogeo just fine when I had a PIII 500.

AtomSmasher:

--- Quote from: hnugz on April 03, 2006, 05:53:51 pm ---you wont run metal slug on a 1ghz either.  I have an amd sempron 2800+ with ecs mobo that I got as a combo at Frys for $70 or $80.  Metal slug slows in parts on that sometimes, not enough to really make gameplay unbearable.  Get at least a 2ghz if you want to run some of the newer type games, otherwise it seems like a waste of money.

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All the metal slug games run fine on my 800mhz system, at least the first few levels ran fine which is all I played of them.

whatzcrackn:
Yeah I second that, I had a 700 AMD and 256 mb memory and ran metal slug without an issue.

I am in need of an upgrade too.  What speed is to fast?  Meaning when can you stop telling the games dont any different (if there is such a thing).  I guess what I mean is If I got the fastest running cpu out there will it really make a difference.  What is to fast and what is to slow?  I pretty much what to run any and every emulator out there.  When I use to zinc on the 700 nothing but issues, I think only about 4 games played correctly and all the CHAD roms were unplayable.

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