Mo B Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 I'm starting from scratch and want to know what computer requirements are needed to have a good gaming experience without spending top dollar. Mostly only interested in retro games for my arcade build. I just don't want to go too cheap and have a bad set up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 First question what is your budget ? What are you willing to spend ? Second question would be what sort of stuff are you wanting to emulate ? Is it just arcade and console up to PS1 or are you wanting to do Gamecube / Wii, PS2 and maybe some of the newer stuff coming like Wii U ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mo B Posted March 29, 2017 Author Share Posted March 29, 2017 Not very interested in anything newer than ps1. I'd like to spend less than $350 on the PC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 You should be able to pick up or build something for that sort of budget. I use an old computer that was my parents old machine that is now about 10 years old. It has an AMD FX CPU @ 2.4 GHz, 2 Gigs of Ram and I threw an old graphics card I had in it (Radeon 7850 1 Gig DDR5 vram). If you want to use shaders in Mame or Retroarch to replicate scanlines you will want a semi decnt GPU like the one I put in the old PC. If you don't care about shaders at all then you do not need anything special at all for a video card. Mainly for specs I would look for something that has as close to a 3 GHz CPU as possible, 4 gigs of ram and enough hard drive space to hold all your games. Graphics card is optional like I said above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mo B Posted March 29, 2017 Author Share Posted March 29, 2017 thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 If you don't care about shaders and don't need a GPU something like this refurbished system from Newegg.com is pretty damn nice for the price. https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883282495 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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