MontyQ Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Ok I have some parts and getting ready to make a cocktail cab since I never have done one yet. Question is I well be using the awesome vertical hyperspin setup jeepguy made and only that's so nothing but old mame games. Do I 1. Use a cheap pentium haswell and intergraded graphics (not sure if there is still issues with videos in hyperspin with this option tho or 2. Go with a AMD APU on a budget here so say a A6-5600k so this would be abit more in cost but has cpu/gpu on the chip which is best for a good cocktail only build ? BTW I never never built AMD pc, always intel many of them but I am sure its the same thing right ? Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitussi Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 Intel, AMD.. it don't matter. But what does matter is whether you going run more than 8 bit verticals, like some of the raidens, taito type X, any future 3D game or shmups. If you do choose to do that, a decent cpu and gpu is a must. I never used an APU or an haswell (both have gpu on die) in a mame setup before, so some one else might want to chime in on that. I don't think there will be a problem tho. Jeepguy/Sorph themes are nice. If you just gonna do older mame.. I did that before with just an older pentium 4 and on-board graphics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MontyQ Posted January 17, 2014 Author Share Posted January 17, 2014 Intel, AMD.. it don't matter. But what does matter is whether you going run more than 8 bit verticals, like some of the raidens, taito type X, any future 3D game or shmups. If you do choose to do that, a decent cpu and gpu is a must. I never used an APU or an haswell (both have gpu on die) in a mame setup before, so some one else might want to chime in on that. I don't think there will be a problem tho. Jeepguy/Sorph themes are nice.If you just gonna do older mame.. I did that before with just an older pentium 4 and on-board graphics. Thanks for the tips and since I already have a full hyperspin Nintendo cab, I think for cocktail I'll go with the AMD APU as has both cpu and the onboard gpu out ranks intels. I can get a A6-5400k for like $60 so should be good...I'll post pics when I do it all. cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitussi Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 Another thing, I think that all older mame vertical games, themes, and videos came to less than 2GB's, so that kinda tells you what kind of power you gonna need..not much. I remember a setup where I had everything running off an 4GB thumb drive, including the OS. Sent from HTC One MAX via Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MontyQ Posted January 17, 2014 Author Share Posted January 17, 2014 ya takes not much at all to run the super old 2d games. ty again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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