NolanCraw Posted April 20, 2017 Posted April 20, 2017 I want to set up Big Box on a NUC ! obviously having a GTX980 card isnt going to happen. What can I expect out of a NUC style for factor? anyone done it? I JUST want to run NES & SNES Thanks Guys !
DOS76 Posted April 20, 2017 Posted April 20, 2017 Well NUC is kind of generic since you can get them with up to an i7 all the way down to a Celeron in them. That being said though I run LB/BB on a large faction of PC's from an i7 with 16GB of RAM and a GTX 960 all the way down to a Insignia tablet with 1GB of RAM and an Atom CPU and while its much smoother on the desktop it can be tweaked to work on lower end hardware (still not the greatest but workable). If your emulation goals are modest ie only NES and SNES you could probably get away with an i3 but I would suggest at least an i5
viking Posted April 20, 2017 Posted April 20, 2017 I use a NUC in my Bartop arcade. (i5 Haswell - 8Go RAM) BOXD54250WYK2 - 2 core - 4 thread - 1.30Ghz - turbo 2.60Ghz - Intel HD Graphics 5000 First, in the BIOS, I switched everything to "performance" mode, turned off what does not help me, put the maximum shared RAM on the graphics card and very slightly OC the CPU (about 5%). All 2D emulators turns very well. No problem. In RetroArch for me. All with filter. For the arcade, I haven't tested Mame, but FBA in RetroArch works perfectly well. For Dauphin, it's more mixed. It depends on the games. For example, "Mario Kart Double Dash" works fine, but not "F-Zero Game Cube". Too much lag. PPSSPP works better in standalone. It runs perfectly well in the original resolution. PS2 and DreamCast turns to 15-20 fps =/ Sega Model 2 & 3 work fine. The "small" 2D PC games work just fine too. Those that do not have too much effect. BroForce works well for example. I don't test CEMU, 3DS or PS3. LaunchBox and BigBox alone works perfectly well. All this, tested on my screen 15" 1280x720px.
SentaiBrad Posted April 20, 2017 Posted April 20, 2017 It's worth noting on the above post that PSP should only ever be ran with it's standalone emulator. The RetroArch core is 2 years out of date. With some tweaking, and your expectations (similar to that above, but it ends up depending on your spec), I think you might be surprised. Big Box can use some tweaking too, but it's mostly going to be your OS and hardware.
viking Posted April 20, 2017 Posted April 20, 2017 Absolutely! I just give the example of my configuration and my experence on my NUC. There must be ways to optimize all that!
NolanCraw Posted April 20, 2017 Author Posted April 20, 2017 4 hours ago, DOS76 said: Well NUC is kind of generic since you can get them with up to an i7 all the way down to a Celeron in them. That being said though I run LB/BB on a large faction of PC's from an i7 with 16GB of RAM and a GTX 960 all the way down to a Insignia tablet with 1GB of RAM and an Atom CPU and while its much smoother on the desktop it can be tweaked to work on lower end hardware (still not the greatest but workable). If your emulation goals are modest ie only NES and SNES you could probably get away with an i3 but I would suggest at least an i5 Yes, my only real requirement is the form factor due to size limitation, so as long as it's hovering around $500 I'm open to any NUC style windows pc.
NolanCraw Posted April 20, 2017 Author Posted April 20, 2017 17 minutes ago, SentaiBrad said: It's worth noting on the above post that PSP should only ever be ran with it's standalone emulator. The RetroArch core is 2 years out of date. With some tweaking, and your expectations (similar to that above, but it ends up depending on your spec), I think you might be surprised. Big Box can use some tweaking too, but it's mostly going to be your OS and hardware. I'm literally only ever going to run NES, SNES, maybe Sega Genesis...
NolanCraw Posted April 20, 2017 Author Posted April 20, 2017 7 minutes ago, viking said: Absolutely! I just give the example of my configuration and my experence on my NUC. There must be ways to optimize all that! Sweet ! Got a link ?
SentaiBrad Posted April 20, 2017 Posted April 20, 2017 (edited) Ah, then your spec can be much lower, or just enough to be able to serve Windows (preferably 10), Big Box and your games. You don't want to get minimum spec for just Windows, because everything requires overhead. 8GB of RAM, a moderate i5, with a GTX graphics card (or an i7 if you have to go integrated), should be fine. Edited April 20, 2017 by SentaiBrad
viking Posted April 20, 2017 Posted April 20, 2017 (edited) For old 2D game, just take the best GPU you can in a NUC. The faster. It should do the job =) Edited April 20, 2017 by viking
SentaiBrad Posted April 20, 2017 Posted April 20, 2017 GTX aren't out, we'd just be looking at the low profile cards. It doesn't need to be this exact card, but a low profile card like this would be extremely helpful. Even if you're just using the GPU and Vram to help with the OS and filters.
DOS76 Posted April 20, 2017 Posted April 20, 2017 GTX is out have you seen a NUC Brad they are really tiny no card would fit inside of it you would need to have a mobile GPU
SentaiBrad Posted April 20, 2017 Posted April 20, 2017 No, I haven't seen a NUC in person. I just know about Low Profile cards because Christina used to have a tiny eMachine.
SentaiBrad Posted April 20, 2017 Posted April 20, 2017 Ok, yep, those are out. In that case, I would go for a nicer i7 to make up for the integrated graphics difference.
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