ken_cinder

I was wondering what happened to you. What's going on? Some asshat cut me off on my bike in September. Bike was written off, I got away with a minor shoulder injury. Got laid off 3 weeks ago, but I should be going to college for free because of it. (Just have to manage to pay my bills in January) Other than that, nothing.

Thankfully no.

Factor in hard drive(s), CD\DVD burner any expansion cards (WiFi) case fan(s) etc. 700w is a safe estimate. We've spent so much time going over hardware, that any more changes in parts are pure choice. If you want to go with a cheaper video card, so be it. Anything near the card you picked will get what you want done. Hard drive brands are no real issue. Take something from the top 3 and you'll be fine (Western Digital, Seagate or Maxtor).

I'd have more hard drives than that if I had the money. the 80GB PATA (IDE) was in my previous machine, along with another 80GB. That machine now runs my arcade machine and doesn't require the space. The 250 SATA was purchased later, I store a lot........and so will you if you plan on amassing a rom collection. The video card is fine, $76 for a video card isn't much, and that will suit you fine. I wouldn't go with less, and you don't really need more if PC games aren't up high on your list.

Why not just try it out yourself, it's not like you have to pay for it.

You can run the card you picked in crossfire if you buy 2 (or more), but you'll need a different motherboard than the one I suggested and a considerably more powerful PSU. If you really don't plan on playing many PC games, and your main focus is emulation you do not need Crossfire. That card you picked is more powerful on it's own, than my 2 cards in Crossfire, and most emulators rely on raw horsepower from the CPU and RAM than they do video cards.

Stick with the first one. Better power/price and less power consumption than all of the others. And do go with dual core, they are very much utilized. MAME for instance can run multiple threads now, which can very much utilize a dual core processor better than a single core.

My year sucked, if I was weaker willed I probably would have jumped infront of a bus by now. Sept - Motorcycle accident, bike written off, lost wages for a week. Did not receive insurance money until TODAY! Nov - Laid off on the 24th, from a job I have had for over 4 years (Originally started there 10 years ago). No jobs I'm qualified for in the area, only have 1 car (Wife needs it). I should be going to college on the governments tab though (My money actually, that I paid into employment insurance). Other than that, I bought a house in May.........but who knows if I'll be able to make my mortgage payment in January.

Both will do just fine, but the 6000+ is the more powerful of the two. It also eats 3x as much power however, and costs a bit more. I'd go with the other one really. Upgrade it later when the top end CPU your motherboard supports is much cheaper. This motherboard is a prime choice to go with it - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16813131172

Switch to an AMD processor, and you're going to have to look at a whole new range of motherboards. If you're settled on your graphics card, using DDR2 and not DDR3 (Nothing wrong with not using DDR3) and everything else besides CPU+Motherboard combination, I have no problems suggesting an AMD platform for you. Just can't keep bouncing around on what you want the core part of your system to be. You either want Intel or AMD. Intel you can go with Socket 775 or 1366, AMD has AM2 and AM2+. 1366 and AM2+ are the newest (and most expensive) chips, that almost always support DDR3 based platforms. Settle on AMD or Intel, DDR2 or DDR3 and I'll recommend something and after that it's up to you.

I built mine over a year ago, it's 'outdated' as far as current tech goes. And yes 2GB will do you just fine, you could put in 4GB (But know that with a 32bit OS, you won't see all 4GB)

Go with an ATi card if your plans are TV out, ATi has always been better in that department. In that case, with the other parts you picked I'd suggest these motherboards. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16813131288 - $54.99 (Damn, you really can't go wrong here. Supports everything you've chosen and more) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16813130217 - $44.99 ($10 cheaper than the Asus, but missing more than $10 worth of features, and not as scalable as the Asus board.) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16813136038 - $109 (DFI's cheapest offering on Newegg, and it offers less than the Asus board does in every relevant category except SATA ports [6 versus the Asus 3]) I honestly think the Asus is the best buy here. As for PSU - 700w or more, with at least 40 amps on the 12v rail (36 amps on at least 1 rail if more than one 12v rail). Check the technical specs on PSU's to determine this. This will ensure you have plenty of power when you decide to add more hard drives or a video card that is even more power hungry in the future. Note: Boards with onboard video can and should be disabled when running a PCI-Express card, they share system RAM. Onboard video isn't such a taboo, and should your card die on you, you can still use your system in the meantime.

Yes yes sorry, was thinking of the same question being posed in a MAME thread awhile back, and it was late.........sorry

Ok well you listed an NvIdia SLi capable video card in your first post, and then an ATi Radeon (Crossfire) in your next. Do you care to ever run 2+ video cards? If you do, you're gonna have to pick SLi (NvIdia) or Crossfire (ATi) As for your motherboard selections, I'd personally stay away from Gigabyte. They're cheap, for a reason. My top 3 pics: #1: Asus - You can get good boards, for good money or great boards for......well you get it. Nothing "budget" here #2: DFI - You should probably stay away from DFI, they really only make enthusiast boards these days.......$$ #3: MSI - Good quality, budget boards. Don't go with for a Crossfire or SLi setup, spend the $ on a solid board

G-Loc wasn't playable in MAME until 0.90 I think (Maybe 0.91), so unless a port is made from source no older than that, it's not gonna happen. I'm not sure, but I don't think straight adding the driver will work either, as the MAME core was changed after mid .80. You'd have to alter the driver to reflect these changes I bet. Not simple work.

What is your budget? I can make a few motherboard suggestions based on the hardware you picked, but if your budget permits (or isn't a big issue) you're going to want to futureproof yourself with a quad core/ddr3 capable motherboard. In the case your budget isn't a big issue, I'd recommend other parts beyond the video card. Socket 775 has been surpassed by 1366 now.

Can't believe I got a "Troll" vote.....meh

Too much talk in a thread meant for "voting" and we should catagorize. pc/360/pS3 etc. I only own a PC and older consoles, but I have played 360 games and I can tell what I like on others. They don't have to be exclusive either. PC: Dead Space - Futuristic Resident Evil IMO, has some minor control issues (Can't map keys to directional keys, I don't use that shat-tastic WSAD crap but I'm forced to here). You feel helpless in this game, cause you really aren't some super soldier. 360: Gears of War 2 - I have actually yet to play this, but I've spent quite a bit of time watching my brother in law play it while I tinker with my arcade cabinet in the basement. The graphics look better than the first, the campaign mode is longer and theres just more to the game. PS3 - Resistance 2 - I've never even seen a PS3 IRL (They're STILL too expensive) but if I picked a game from this year, this would be it. It looks like it would be fun to play. (No, not MGS4, I've seen and heard enough to know I'd want to play it but that it's still more interactive movie than game.) Wii - To be honest, there isn't a damn thing I'd want for the Wii that came out this year. I want one, but for a few games that came out LAST year, namely Metroid Prime 3. If I had to pick a game from this year, it would be Mario Kart, if you don't like Mario Kart..........you suck.

I know it's fine, I'm just not setting everything up to compile MAME. Too much work for little use. I dropped SDLMame anyway. For some reason it can't create a Vertex Object Buffer (It did just fine in Linux with the EXACT same video card) in OpenGL mode. Not running in software mode. Computer is significantly faster though, so vanilla MAME in D3D with switchres 320x240@60 is perfect. Yes, 320x240, you read that right. Running PC on 15khz standard res arcade monitor. 640x480 works, but isn't as crisp looking, and anything higher is interlaced. I just wish I could figure out how to get my monitors to go into medium res mode. Documentation says they are dual mode, but I can't get it to work. :S

I need a Win32 binary of 0.128 (No u please) and googling is getting me nowhere. I'm sick of playing with modelines in Linux to achieve the 15khz resolutions I need, I gave up and went back to Windows, and I DO NOT want to set a damn toolchain up on Windows just to compile this from source, I'd rather wipe and reinstall Linux than EVER compile anything in Windows again.

So I'm on here setting up my new MAME box (And of course alot more than MAME) when I get done with the hardware aspects, and I go to grab the latest SDLMame. And I get this......... http://rbelmont.mameworld.info/?page_id=163

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=petes%A0opengl OMFG dude! Teh googlez!

1: If the original was soldered in, then yes. I have not had to change mine (yet), so I don't recall if it's soldered in or not. 2: The battery you removed IS a CR2032 unless someone has already replaced it with the WRONG battery in the past. So are the batteries in the DC VMU....and the Saturn uses a CR2032 and so does your PC....so on and so on. They are NOT rechargeable, and neither is the one you removed, unless like I said the wrong one was put in to begin with. Despite what you may find Googling, anyone stating the battery is anything but a CR2032 is WRONG. 3: Doesn't matter, because you replaced it with the same battery. I have literally a hundred CR2032s still new in the package. So I'm set for life with my Sega systems lol

Yes, being a vegetarian is bad, despite what they think the human body REQUIRES meat proteins. I don't care if people do it, but when I meet/learn of vegetarian parents who force their toddlers/children to be vegetarians I wish I had a gun........... And don't get me started on vegans, those people are just plain f**ked up and retarded. Though the more of them that exist, the cheaper my meat prices are (Supply and demand!), so for anyone reading..........feel free to become a vegetarian/vegan!

So you have PMS then?