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PC Hardware recommendations?
Chris2:
Hey y'all. I'm going to be building a new PC for my cabinet and was wondering what others were using. I know for sure that I'll be using Windows XP(at least for now) and will want to play a lot of recent games (late 90's, early 00's). Any suggestions?
Strife:
Single-core Pentium IV - as fast as you can find/your budget will allow. 3 GB RAM. 500 - 750 GB HD. Basic sound card and video card with TV output (assuming you're using a TV as your monitor).
TelcoLou:
My test set-up:
Old Sony VAIO laptop
2.4Ghz Pentium 4
512MB RAM
32MB on-board Radion 7500C video
^ this runs ~90% of the games I've tested at full-speed, so I'll be building a new PC with better specs for it's permanent home in my cab.
.. but 3GB RAM?? isn't that overkill? I was planning on 2GB, max ... ???
Strife:
RAM is cheap and 3 GB is the max that XP home will recognize. It can only help and the incremental cost vs. 2 GB is minimal.
TelcoLou:
Makes sense :)
I haven't bough RAM in like ... 3 or 4 years now LOL
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