![]() At worst getting something 'too good' gives you a bit of insurance (and means most of what you do run pushes the CPU less, which is good for temperatures) They are available in low-profile models which fit easier inside smaller cabinets.įor CPU the answer is simply the highest clocked 6+ core Intel you can afford from the current generation. I am running this on a mame-only cabinet. This will work with the aforementioned CRT Emudrivers. If you're intending to run an actual CRT, then an older AMD R5 230 would be a reasonable choice. However, those cards are extreme overkill for any other emulators. A GTX 1070 will give you as good as you can expect, unless you intend to play things upscaled to 4k, in which case it's worth looking at the 20 series, like the 2060, 2070, or 2080. For modern console emulation, you're going to find the best compatibility across the board with an nvidia card. ![]() For Mame the video card is only going to matter if you're using shader effects on an LCD display. It's also fast enough to run games in bleeding-edge emulators such as Yuzu, the Nintendo Switch emulator, at close to 100% when paired with a sufficient video card. This would result in lower performance per cycle in emulators because it couldn't hit the onboard cache as frequently, so cycles are wasted while it fetches from system ram.Īn Intel i7-7700K will run at 4.2Ghz stock on 4 cores with air cooling. Historically, while AMD processors could reach higher clock speeds than Intel processors it was at the expense of the on-board cache. ![]() ![]() Secondarily to the clock speed of the CPU, it seems as though having a larger L2/元 cache on the processor benefits emulators. Sorry.Īs has been stated, I can't think of any emulators, Mame, or otherwise, which will utilize a tremendously high core count. Telling you exactly which games will work or not with that is indeed impossible, there are no thorough benchmarks available, differences in specs from CPU-to-CPU and various other factors, so the answer is always the faster/stronger CPU the better.ĥGHz are kind of overkill and very expensive, requiring quite the beastly build it's for people who wish to explore the limits of emulation, personally I'm satisfied with a 4GHz quad core, though I still get some frame drops with several STV games, but System22 ones are fine.įor the GPU you didn't answer the question, whether it's solely for a flat panel setup, or a CRT on which you'll do true 15KHz emulation (w/ CRT Emudriver and GroovyMAME) in which case you'd have to look at AMD GPUs, but no one will bother listing all brands and models as a whole if you don't help narrow it down to your needs. Well for the CPUs it's easy, if you want the best get something 4+GHz or even 5GHz, at least quad core.įor a lower reasonable I'd say 3+GHz quad core as well, or minimal 3GHz 2 cores + hyperthreading (check the ark.intel website for cpu model names and specs) ![]()
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