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Will this kit be ok for BigBox & old school games?


2dguy

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I bought a fancy pedestal arcade from extremehomearcades.com years ago, it runs all the old school games just fine, here's the older kit:

Windows XP 4gb ram
Intel Pentium CPU G2120 @ 3.10ghz
Gefore GT 640
1TB Hard Drive

I'm upgrading the kit to have:
Windows 10 16gb ram
Intel 3rd Gen i7-3770
Geforce GT 640 (same gpu)
1TB SSD

I just want to run the older mame arcade games, 8bit, 16bit consoles, Atari 400-XE, Atari ST, Amiga.

Will the updated kit be ok to run BigBox & the old school stuff?

Thank you for any comment.

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6 hours ago, 2dguy said:

Related..  Will  LB/BB work with pretty much any version of mame? Wondering if I could keep my older version and working roms? Thx for any comments. 

LB will work with pretty much any emulator; thus any version of MAME if that is EXE you have and ROM set. 

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On 1/27/2024 at 12:20 AM, 2dguy said:

I bought a fancy pedestal arcade from extremehomearcades.com years ago, it runs all the old school games just fine, here's the older kit:

Windows XP 4gb ram
Intel Pentium CPU G2120 @ 3.10ghz
Gefore GT 640
1TB Hard Drive

I'm upgrading the kit to have:
Windows 10 16gb ram
Intel 3rd Gen i7-3770
Geforce GT 640 (same gpu)
1TB SSD

I just want to run the older mame arcade games, 8bit, 16bit consoles, Atari 400-XE, Atari ST, Amiga.

Will the updated kit be ok to run BigBox & the old school stuff?

Thank you for any comment.

Should be more than plenty.  LB installed on SSD will help with image cache speed (i.e., scrolling, media views).  For the actual emulators plenty fast for what you listed.  Most depend on the CPU vs graphics cards so good there as well.  The RAM upgrade from 4GB will be helpful overall for general OS speed (at least 8 GB). 

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