jcrowley30 Posted October 27, 2015 Posted October 27, 2015 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.
SkyHighGam3r Posted October 27, 2015 Posted October 27, 2015 Please, for the love of god, someone sticky this.This would have been a fantastic resource a couple of days ago before I dropped $1,200 on a new PC lol(Not that I regret the purchase at all)Thank you jcrowley30, I know a lot of people will appreciate this.
jcrowley30 Posted October 28, 2015 Author Posted October 28, 2015 A G3258 can get you much farther than snes How much farther do you think it can get without a GPU? PS1?
JayC Posted October 28, 2015 Posted October 28, 2015 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.
jcrowley30 Posted October 28, 2015 Author Posted October 28, 2015 Thanks for the feedback, I have updated the description along with some other experience from people I have read. Some pcsx2 games from a sub 200 price point is impressive. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G920A using Tapatalk
SkyHighGam3r Posted October 28, 2015 Posted October 28, 2015 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.
JayC Posted October 28, 2015 Posted October 28, 2015 Sure, I just made a new thread for it in the cabinet/project section: http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/topic/12544-just-another-nes-pc/
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