Hyperspin on old System

[Ankosi]

Hi guys my name is ankosi I'm new here I have a question I am currently building an arcade machine and I wanted to use an old PC but I do not know if this system requirement would be enough for me to confirm if that is ok thank you in advance sorry for my bad English

WinFast 6100 M2MA

Prozessor:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3600+ 2.00 GHz

Arbeitsspeicher:
DDR2 2GB

Festplatte:
500 GB HDD

Grafikkarte:
Nvidia GeForce GT220

WINDOWS 7 32bit

 

[dark13]

The question is: what do you want to run?

I'm currently using an e2180 on my HTPC, slightly better than your cpu, and in the past I've used a pentium4 3ghz. It will work but game's list will be limited. Probably cps3 games will run (street fighter 3) but tekken or soul calibur will not (they will run on epsxe). No dreamcast, no playstation2, no model3, no gamecube, no saturn (some games should run on SSF), no 3do.

Hyperspin will work decently BUT Rocktlauncher might be a bit slow when launching a game, if you move hyperspin's wheel after you launch a game you can trigger a flash bug where the video is removed from stage but audio is still buffered, so you'll hear video's audio while playing the emulator.

[Ankosi]

okay thank you then I will continue to search and buy a better PC 

[dark13]

To emulate everything you need an intel core i with 4 core and 4.5ghz (it's overclock, so you need a decent motherboard and a decent heatsink. 4.5ghz is "safe" overclock on most core i cpus as they are usually rock solid stable at 4.8ghz-5ghz).

If you get an SSD get a m.2 ssd (check if the motherboard supports it), much faster than sata

[Guest]

If by “everything” you mean the latest WiiU and Switch emulators, then yeah 4 cores will be useful. But beware...

For everything else - 2 cores is enough - given most emulators will in fact only use two cores. This is be design when the emulators are developed - as in it’s a code level thing.

Most important factor for CPU when emulating is clock speed. Buying a processor with more cores, unless you get the best in that class (i5, i7, etc) usually means clock speed is slower.

I have a i3 2 core processor, which clocks at 3.5Ghz. This runs everything, short of the very latest emulators (bearing in mind that Switch emulators and other new emulators don’t actually have full functionality yet). This processor was 90GBP.

Always, always go for highest clock speed possible in budget, and place core count lower in priority list when considering emulation.


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[Aorin]

1 hour ago, tonesmalone said:

I have a i3 2 core processor, which clocks at 3.5Ghz. This runs everything, short of the very latest emulators (bearing in mind that Switch emulators and other new emulators don’t actually have full functionality yet). This processor was 90GBP.

My previous PC was an i3 2120 with 3.30 Ghz base clock and it probably went to 3.5 Ghz using the MB turbo, one thing I noticed and was believed not to affect, is the MTVU option for PCSX2, people on said that only real cores would benefit from this feature, yet I clearly remember it worked using the other thread(s) that old i3 had to offer, the FPS count reached full speed in some games, those that actually are playable in the emulator, mind that even the latest CPU won't handle bad emulated games, so I believe a CPU similar to that is fine. I read somewhere last week that the new i3 CPUs have now 4 real cores, it's amazing, it basically took the i5 place, I wonder if the i5 has threaded cores along with the 4 cores that the i7 had in older versions?

[dark13]

Yeah, intel core i 3 8xxx have 4 cores 4 thread, i5 6 cores 6 thread, i7 6 cores 12 thread. Hyperthreading seems also to work better, it was +30% on previous generation, now it is +40%.

When i said "4 cores" I was exactly thinking to CEMU. Of course it also means 16gb of ram :D. Cemu supports even 6 cores but the interpreter is less stable. Mame can actually use 4 cores (try "sfrush") but the 2 extra cores don't seem to help that much. Most of the other emulators simply use 2 cores.

[Aorin]

2 hours ago, dark13 said:

Yeah, intel core i 3 8xxx have 4 cores 4 thread, i5 6 cores 6 thread, i7 6 cores 12 thread. Hyperthreading seems also to work better, it was +30% on previous generation, now it is +40%.

When i said "4 cores" I was exactly thinking to CEMU. Of course it also means 16gb of ram :D. Cemu supports even 6 cores but the interpreter is less stable. Mame can actually use 4 cores (try "sfrush") but the 2 extra cores don't seem to help that much. Most of the other emulators simply use 2 cores.

So basically, the latest core i3 with the highest clock will probably handle most emulators.

[dark13]

Infact probably the best bang for bucks in emulation world right now is 8350k, even an "unlucky" cpu can do 4.5ghz in overclock  https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Intel/Core_i3_8350K/17.html

Yeah, cheapest i5 costs only 15 bucks more and ryzen rocks BUT what you really need for emulation is 4 core, high frequency and outstanding single-threaded performance.

the downside is... well, an 8350k costs too much, so an 8600k can make sense...
 

[Ankosi]

Hi guys, one more question I can also play hyperspin on an Android device or just a Nvidia Shield TV ?