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I'm new to the forum
I want to assemble a pc for hyperspin and pcsx2 wheels but I don't know which components to buy example motherboard and video card

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The motherboard has minimal impact on performance if you're not going to overclock the system.

Intel i5 is always a good choice, these days also AMD are pretty good for emulation, actually as far as I remember AMD's 5950X has the best single core performance but it just costs too much for an emulation machine.
Overclock is always a good idea, emulators dont' work that good with multicores compilers, most emulators can use only 2 cores so having higher frequency and a good single core score is better than having more cores.

The videocard... well, these days you must be very lucky and very rich to get a decent one. I'd say 1660 super, a videocard capable of running everything on high, 60fps, 1080p but that 250€ baby now ranges from 500€ to 600€

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I have an old i7-2600 (non k), a z68 chipset motherboard, which allows me to overclock the i7 up to 4.2Ghz, 10GB of DDR3 RAM and a Geforce 1660ti. If the emulator is optimized, you can basically run even RPCS3 games at 60FPS, it will depend on the game and state of the emulator.

There are also native PC games which are optimized like the last DOOM and Eternal, GTA 5, etc, and others that aren't and more powerful hardware have a hard time keeping up with the game without any stutter.

If you try cranking up the resolution of a software rendered emulator, for example, Bettle PSX on Retroarch, up to 8x, it will make even my friend's newer i7 look weak, the thing will crawl. Even Mednafen Saturn today isn't going to make the latest i9's lives easier since its code doesn't have dynarec yet. Bear in mind I can play most of the Saturn games above 60fps, in my 2011 CPU, except those that just won't, the thing is, the emulator itself isn't there yet. SSF on the other hand will fly if you turn v-sync off.

Like Dark13 said, the GPU isn't that important for emulation, you'd be fine with a GTX 750, I had a 4GB variant and I could play all emulators at 1080p without problems.
And like he also says, the prices today are ridiculous, I got my 1660ti way before this crisis. But you absolutely don't need any GPU close to this for emulating PS2, GC, Wii, Xbox and even PS3, Wii U and X360, specially at their native 720p.

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