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Title: computer experts i need your tech opinion!!
Post by: tyweed on February 26, 2003, 09:22:38 pm

Hello all ! i'm getting ready to build a cabinet with mame ,nes ,sega,n64,and,snes. I found out that the n64 requires bigtime computer power so i'm going to upgrade!

i currently have a pentiumII 433mhz w/ 256ram

what do you think i should upgrade to a p3 or p4 ?

and what kind of motherboard ?

if i do upgrade will all my nes and atari games run too fast?

Title: Re:computer experts i need your tech opinion!!
Post by: Shadowfire on February 26, 2003, 09:44:00 pm

Don't bother with a P3 system.  They're end-of-life units, and for not much more you can get a much faster P4-Celeron based system.

Title: Re:computer experts i need your tech opinion!!
Post by: SirPoonga on February 26, 2003, 10:19:48 pm

May I suggest the cheaper and better performance AMD processors.

Title: Re:computer experts i need your tech opinion!!
Post by: Howard_Casto on February 26, 2003, 10:35:49 pm

amd has always been the choice for emulation enthusists everywhere.

I could guess that the majority of the people on this site that have built their pcs have used amd processors.  They are cheaper, they are faster and for emulation they have a noticable performance boost.  

Title: Re:computer experts i need your tech opinion!!
Post by: Distortion on February 26, 2003, 10:37:53 pm

You get another vote for AMD from me.  My 750 Mhz AMD Athlon was much cheaper than the comparable P3 at the time and still plays 95% of current games well.

Title: Re:computer experts i need your tech opinion!!
Post by: Odonadon on February 26, 2003, 11:35:15 pm

Quote from: tyweed on February 26, 2003, 09:22:38 pm

Hello all ! i'm getting ready to build a cabinet with mame ,nes ,sega,n64,and,snes. I found out that the n64 requires bigtime computer power so i'm going to upgrade!

i currently have a pentiumII 433mhz w/ 256ram

what do you think i should upgrade to a p3 or p4 ?

and what kind of motherboard ?

if i do upgrade will all my nes and atari games run too fast?

That's odd.  I've had absolutely no problem running UltraHLE games on my PII 400MHz with 256Mb RAM.  You sure it's a PII 433MHz?  Sounds like a PII Celeron to me.  Or do you mean PII 450MHz?  That'd make for a rather odd bus speed for a PII faster than 300MHz...

Odonadon

Title: Re:computer experts i need your tech opinion!!
Post by: Dr. J on February 27, 2003, 02:02:00 am

I used to be a hardcore intel junkie.  Never again.  AMD rocks.

Title: Re:computer experts i need your tech opinion!!
Post by: Minwah on February 27, 2003, 11:34:40 am

AMD for sure - make sure you keep it nice & cool tho.

I see there is soon to be an Athlon XP 3000+  :o

Title: Re:computer experts i need your tech opinion!!
Post by: )p( on February 27, 2003, 12:05:59 pm

Quote from: Minwah on February 27, 2003, 11:34:40 am

AMD for sure - make sure you keep it nice & cool tho.

The upside of the heat amd cpu's produce... if central heating fails you can always turn on your amd pc  ;D

peter