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Cyber:

--- Quote from: Disturbed013 on July 30, 2007, 01:17:51 am ---Welcome.  Giant's advice to you is very accurate.  Just wanted to add that the case may not be necessary either, depending on your cab build plans.  Many people mount the pc caseless inside the cab.

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Yes, that was an good idea!

Thank you for that one, did not think of that.. doh! :D

Cyber:

--- Quote from: Green Giant on July 30, 2007, 03:11:30 am ---I usually pick up my cases from geeks.com.  That way I get a case and power supply for maybe 20, sometimes less than that.  Mounting the board straight helps in cooling and you can get a power supply from geeks for $12.  Either way, you should waste your money on controls and aesthetics instead of a nice computer.  When people play it, they won't care about the insides as long as it plays the games like an original.

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Nice tip there, so thank you for that!
Will check out geeks.com later on!

Thanks :)

Green Giant:
Also check out tigerdirect.com.  They have lots of cheap parts too.  On my last two computers, I picked up half the parts from geeks and the other half from tigerdirect.

paigeoliver:
Using a new computer for mame is mostly a gigantic waste of money. The differences between an old freebie computer running an old mame version and a brand new $2000 one are going to come down to about a dozen decent games, half of which you won't have the controls for. Use a freebie or $50 used computer at first and then only upgrade later if you really feel the need. Mame is not a first person shooter, it does not need a killer PC, not at all.

Instead use that money to get a GOOD display (like an actual 27" arcade monitor), and quality controls. If you spend that money on an AWESOME computer you will find that it is going to eventually be a "formerly awesome computer that is now worthless" and you will have never even used any of the awesomeness that it had.

u_rebelscum:

--- Quote from: Green Giant on July 29, 2007, 11:04:57 pm ---Welcome to the board. 

-About your computer, that is way overkill.  Currently MAME doesn't take advantage of dual core processors.  There is work on the future of using dual core, but it should only enable a handful of games currently unplayable, maybe 10. 
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This isn't exactly true anymore; the future is now.  Mame has a -multithread option.  However, it only speeds up the few specific games that are coded for it, and even then only a ~5-10% increase.  Which IIRC doesn't move any games from too-slow-to-play to playable.



--- Quote ---An AMD 64 3500 can pretty much handle every mame game playable to date. 
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You might get a couple more games with a top end core 2 (but not because it's dual core).   For less than 1/10th of one percent... not worth it (unless you really want that game).

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