Mo B Posted March 29, 2017 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.
Lordmonkus Posted March 29, 2017 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
Mo B Posted March 29, 2017 Author Posted March 29, 2017 Not very interested in anything newer than ps1. I'd like to spend less than $350 on the PC
Lordmonkus Posted March 29, 2017 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.
Lordmonkus Posted March 29, 2017 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
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