A dedicated emulation system

**Submeg** · 5th February 2007, 01:35

Woa, thats a lot of stuff. How expensive are large HDs these days? We should have a thread for part costs somewhere...

**Harrison** · 5th February 2007, 01:37

250GB HD is about £40-50 at the moment I think. Seagate is probably the best make to go for, although Maxtor have always been good for me.

**Submeg** · 5th February 2007, 01:38

Thats an alright price, hope they are around that mark down here

**Harrison** · 5th February 2007, 01:42

If you are building a new system then try to go for SATA Harddrives as they save a lot of hassle. No jumper settings are correct positions needed on any IDE cables. You just connect the SATA cable and power to the drive and it works.

**Submeg** · 5th February 2007, 01:45

I just remembered that my sis is getting a laptop so the comp that used to in her room is going to replace the 500 MHz one that is sitting in the study collecting dust. But that one is only 850 Mhz, so I'll have to look into buying a new comp

**Harrison** · 5th February 2007, 09:01

850MHz is fast enough for most emulation though and would lend itself well to MAME and other 8-bit and 16-bit system emulators. Running Windows 2000 on a PC of that speed would be best as XP would use up too many system resources.

It would probably struggle with some of the more recent 3D based systems, and the more recent games MAME supports, but everything else would work fine.

**Submeg** · 5th February 2007, 10:26

What games are we talking? Like PSX games?

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