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PC Builds for Hyperspin and Emulators


jcrowley30

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I have seen a lot of questions asking about what builds would be best to run hyperspin and emulators so I decided to come up with a list of a few builds at different price points.  I am far from an expert in building computers but I have built a few in my life and thought I could help.  I will go back and edit these builds based on comments or drastic changes in prices of parts.  I am sticking with Intel builds (mostly due to their performance with emulators) but I welcome someone to message me some AMD builds at the different price points.  The three price points I am going for are Under $200 (Can handle some Dolphin and PCSX2 with overclocking), Under $350 (Can be used up to and including ps2, dreamcast, gamecube, wii), Under $550 (should perform well with any system).  I would like to add an ITX build to this as well, but would first like some feedback on these. 

 

Under $200 Build:

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/Km3mt6

 

Under $350 Build:

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2wyqvK

 

Under $550 Build:

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/jjhmt6

 

Please note that I have not added more than 1 TB of storage in these builds since I assume that could be added after the build is made.  I have also excluded a SSD to keep the overall cost as low as possible.

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Great idea for a thread!

 

And yeah...the G3258 will work with much higher games than snes. I have a computer built into a nes box with an itx with intel graphics. CPU overclocked just a tad...like 3.8ghz or something. Haven't tried all systems yet but I have no problem running psx. I've heard that even some PS2 games should work fine.

I also have a g3258 in my cab clocked to 4.2 or 4.4 but that has the arcadeVGA gpu so that doesn't count...but man, that's a great little cheap cpu capable of much more than you'd think.

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Great idea for a thread!

 

And yeah...the G3258 will work with much higher games than snes. I have a computer built into a nes box with an itx with intel graphics. CPU overclocked just a tad...like 3.8ghz or something. Haven't tried all systems yet but I have no problem running psx. I've heard that even some PS2 games should work fine.

I also have a g3258 in my cab clocked to 4.2 or 4.4 but that has the arcadeVGA gpu so that doesn't count...but man, that's a great little cheap cpu capable of much more than you'd think.

 

I'd love to see a picture of this NES of yours. That sounds awesome. There simply aren't enough Console inspired Hyperspin builds out there.

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