![]() Make your CPU department scream, and you won't. Ultimately, for MAME, the fastest darn CPU you can afford, the better. Sound? Whatever you tolerate for a sound card setup. Realize that it won't help MAME any more though. Radeon 9000 64mb is fine for mame, and completely affordable. RAM is kind of important, IE: nothing below 500mb PC2100 DDR Motherboard generally doesn't matter, just get something decent - an ASUS board for instance. I built a PC to do many things, and one of them was running my favorte and important arcade games at full-rate. I've played it on multiple different hardware configuations and following MAME is one of my many technical hobbies. I remember when Mortal Kombat 2 emulation was very preliminary. I've been using MAME since somewhere around 37beta13-14. If most of you're fun comes from emulators, trust me, throw most of your PC spending budget towards CPUs. Your pc is at that level where small little tweaks will gain you some, but like I say, unfortunately you can't play a game requiring 1-1.2ghz on a 800mhz CPU. Video cards do almost nothing for MAME, sorry. I'd like to look into an arcade monitor for accuracy, but a 4:3 is as close as you'll get. I play MAME, and all of my emulators on my 36" Sony Vega, and put sound through my B&Ws. ![]() Playing the games on authentc controllers is nice too, btw. The SNES hardware doesn't even compare - I have the MK1 board set actually. The arcade versions over the SNES versions most certainly. ![]() I'd say no less than a 1.4ghz AMD cpu for the MK series, and for the Killer Instinct stuff no less than 2ghz, especially for KI2. There are games in MAME that require probably over 10,000mhz CPUs. Killert Instcint 1 and 2 aren't even full speed on my 1,670mhz CPU. Mortal Kombat 2-Ultimate 3 require around at least a 1ghz for close to perfect frame rate. ![]()
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