Simzter

Thanks for the comment The old one cost me like £30 second hand, and probably wouldn't survive a power on - it was covered in dust and probably damp. I think I'm sold on the GPU idea, the 1050ti will cost me £130 and feels like money well spent if it improves the Launchbox experience. Last time I recall it being laggy - which is why I'm going SSD - previously it was an unbranded spinner.

I appreciate the detailed answer, thank you. I hadn't considered shaders - but I guess it would be good having a system that is capable if I wanted to dabble. I can get the following: 4GB MSI GTX 1050Ti 4GT LP GDDR5 well within budget. I hadn't considered the RAM - I'll go for 16GB

So - I'm planning on building an overkill PC for my cabinet. I built it 2 years ago - and the PC I had in it was just rubbish - and struggled with Launchbox so it got confined to the shed. I came across it after forgetting about it in the shed - I removed it and cleaned it up a little - and instantly wanted to make it what it should've been. I've pulled out the old PC, and want to put something in it that will cope. I'm going to buy an i5 9400 @ 4.1Ghz, an M.2 1TB SSD, 8GB DDR4 RAM @ 2600Mhz. I'm not sure if I need a dedicated graphics - or if I get the CPU with iGPU whether that would be enough. I have an amazing gaming PC that covers the heavy stuff - this will be soley for MAME stuff. What are your thoughts - if I got a 1060ti would that really make any difference?