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what do they charge to actually build the PC not including the parts?

Both of my 750 TI's can run PCSX2 and Dolphin without issue.

I'm confused what is limiting you to only those cards and if you can install a 760 why wouldn't you be able to use other 700 series GPU's. I didn't know that this was an issue I thought that if your PC had 16x PCIe slot you could plug any GPU in as long as your PSU could handle the extra load.

My Dell Inspiron 660S has a mSATA connected through PCIe adapter card they actually have new drives though that have PCIe connectors built right into them I was reading about them last night.

Bedroom Asus M51CAC PNY GeForce GTX 970 Core i7 4770K 16GB RAM 50 inch Samsung HDTV Kitchen Dell Inspiron 660S Onboard Intel Graphics Core i5 3330 8GB RAM 32 inch Sony HDTV Living Room Asus (mobo) Z170I EVGA GeForce GTX 750 TI Core i5 6500 16GB RAM 50 inch Sony HDTV Basement Asus (mobo) Z170P-D3 EVGA GeForce GTX 750 TI Core i5 6500 16GB RAM 55 inch Samsung HDTV These are the systems I throw anything at the Dell struggles with some things PS2 and Dolphin but handles other things fine.

I've only built with Asus boards and their documentation is good. Can't speak as to any other company's.

No it really isn't that hard it can feel very overwhelming at first but you are basically just assembling it the documentation that comes with your board will tell you everything you need to know. I'm assuming this will be your first build just follow the directions especially the one about not popping of the cover that goes over the CPU slot I missed that one on my first build and then the board didn't work. I'm not sure if I did anything to it or if it was DOA but I haven't had any problems with boards other than the one that I made that mistake with.

Yeah a few years ago they were prohibitively expensive but since then the prices have started to drop (I got 2 480GB ones over Christmas for $150 per). Now I'm waiting for the PCIe SSD's to come down in price as they are supposedly much faster than the SATA III versions.

I love Mario Golf (not that anyone cares).

SSD is a must have upgrade (In my opinion) for every computer. If you don't install a lot of programs you could probably get away with 120GB which would be even cheaper (not maybe cheap enough to justify the loss of space though).

I have my PS2 games in a folder with 27 subfolders and while most of the games are ISO's there are a few that are in cue/bin format. I got curious and Googled to see if you could exclude file types from the a search in Explorer by using NOT *.cue (in my case) it ended up going over great and the unwanted files were no included in the search. I just wanted to share this in case it can make someone's day easier.

Yeah I guess I never thought of it that way we are lucky so many games are in English to begin with I guess.

Thanks! I started adding language patches to some of my NES games today so thanks again for that informative tutorial last week.

Yeah I know they are designed for smaller screens but really I personally prefer to play in full screen I'm not really bothered with how they look stretched.

No I can play them but some have a lot of text and if you can't read it it kind of ruins the experience at least for me.

Can you stretch to full screen with the RA core or will there be black space

Yeah I understand I just hate to see a platform go unemulated and the software be lost even if it is in another language. I can't really play any of my PC-Engine CD games either but some of them look like they are probably pretty cool. Its not that big a deal I'll have to try Mednefen again and try using pcfx.rom I don't think I ever changed the name last time I tried.

I'm using SNES9x-sx2 and I've found that it fixes issues with the few games I had issues with in SNES9x. I don't really play SNES all that much anyway so its not the biggest deal I would have liked to use it because of the accuracy but I can't take looking at that blank black space on my TV screen.

I have it full screen but it has vertical black space on each side I'm trying to eliminate that I have Aspect Correction turned off but it ins't changing anything in full screen. That is kind of a deal breaker for me.

Can it stretch full screen

That's a cool idea but since I have Windows Phone (or Windows Mobile or whatever they are calling this week) no one will develop an app for it. Its actually a solid platform but low market share means low priority for developers. As long as I can watch Plex, SlingBox read my comics, ebooks and listen to audio books then it does everything I need it to just sucks to be denied the bells and whistles some times. (Yeah MLB I'm talking about you)

I haven't looked at it yet but I definitely agree with @CADScott about both the RAM and the SSD unless you want to max out the RAM I would just buy for the two slots allowing for greater upgradability in the future. Not that you will need 32GB of RAM unless you want to start running multiple Virtual Machines but you never know what the future will bring.

Ok I'm starting to like the notion that Higans could be to Nintendo what Fusion is to Sega. Does it handle Famicom Disk System games?

There have been occasional issues with them having downtime in the past.

It depicts her fighting ISIS though which is not what I expected when I clicked the link. I thought this was like some jihadi propaganda game and people where up in arms but that isn't the case because the heroin is fighting the terrorist. While it displaying real live execution is in bad taste I think maybe the author is making a bit much out of it say if it was a medieval game and there was gruesome beheadings depicted then there wouldn't be an issue with the level of violence. It sort of reminds me of the David Cross standup when he talks about people declaring that video games are making people violent like the human race hasn't been violent since it inception he then goes on to state that he wants to know the name of the video game that Hitler was playing. While I wouldn't play this game personally (I'd be afraid the NSA would start watching you if you downloaded it) it seems like just another source of media that depicts violence which are already in abundance.