LarryLaffer75 Posted July 5, 2017 Share Posted July 5, 2017 Hello, i want to speed up my Arcade Cabin. Some games like Great Giana Sisters (Amiga) and a lot of PS2 Games are to slow. It isn´t funny to play. So this is the reason i want to tune my machine. The cabin containes: Motherboard H81I-Plus Intel Pentium CPU G3260 Ram 4 GB Windows 7 64bit NVIDIA Geforce GT710 What is the cheapest way to tune my cabin? Thx a lot for your answers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phantom2404 Posted July 5, 2017 Share Posted July 5, 2017 A SSD will help a lot! Double the memory if you can. Sometimes a new computer will be in order. I used a old emachine that supported up too 8gigs of memory. And dropped a SSD and a and r7 video card in it. and so far it runs just about everything smooth. Although I have not used it for PS2 emulation yet. But dolphin works fine running GameCube/wii games. And I run street fighter 4 off steam on it on medium graphic setting's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryLaffer75 Posted July 5, 2017 Author Share Posted July 5, 2017 Which Video Card do you prefer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wesfranks Posted July 5, 2017 Share Posted July 5, 2017 The opinion of many is to overclock the CPU to around 4.2Ghz for best current emulation performance. However, from what I can see on the net, the G3260 has a locked multiplier and can't be overclocked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryLaffer75 Posted July 6, 2017 Author Share Posted July 6, 2017 At first I will double up the memory and change the video card. The next step, if the performance is not good enough, is to change the processor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikekim Posted July 6, 2017 Share Posted July 6, 2017 as stated above.. add an additional 4gb ram and up the gfx card to at least a 750ti a mixture of ssd and hdd will suffice (main o/s and preview vids on the ssd) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryLaffer75 Posted July 6, 2017 Author Share Posted July 6, 2017 What Graphic Card do you mean exatly? Gigaforce GeForce 750i? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steptoeUK Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 Double your memory to 8GB, change your CPU to an Intel i7 if you can afford it, as that will make a huge difference but will also mean reinstalling Windows 7 and should easily overclock to 4.5ghz with a decent air cooler or even a water cooling kit if you want to push it further http://www.cpu-world.com/Compare/309/Intel_Core_i7_i7-7700_vs_Intel_Pentium_Dual-Core_G3260.html http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Pentium-G3260-vs-Intel-Core-i7-7700/m31434vs3887 Your GFX card seems to be a major bottleneck as well http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-GTX-460-vs-GeForce-GT-710 It looks like you can still buy the GTX460, plus they are the updated models. Mines ancient so should be better still. It uses GDDR5 memory where your card uses DDR3, so that's a bottleneck straight away I also overclock my i7 4700k CPU to 4.5Ghz from stock 4.0Ghz with an Nvidia GTX460 and water cooler kit. Its an old system now but runs everything and is very quick when doing video encoding using HCEnc. This is my desktop though I'm using while I build up the full HyperSpin system I'm intending to use on my updated bartop and use to test everything before installing it in the bartop cabinet My initial cabinet started off with a Raspberry Pi3 but just wasn't powerful enough for running everything and didn't support FuturePinball or VisualPinball at all, so my intention is to upgrade the internals to use an Intel i5 4460 I have gathering dust for the basis of a full blown cabinet running Windows 10 and 8GB. What GFX card I'm not sure yet but will be an NVidia and will still use the RPI3 as a media player/KODI for the main house flatscreen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikekim Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 On 7/6/2017 at 10:59 AM, LarryLaffer75 said: What Graphic Card do you mean exatly? Gigaforce GeForce 750i? yes, basically on nvidia cards the first number is the series and the second is the model in the range, so the higher the better on both. aim for at least a 50 card or better on any series (4-10) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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