XvMMMvX Posted June 25, 2004 Posted June 25, 2004 First off sorry if this is iin the wrong forum... Anyways, I have been looking into building a PC soly for the use of Emulators (NES and SNES mostly) and using it to watch movies on my TV (DiVX). I was wondering what would be the right proccessor and video card combination for my application. I have done some looking and I was thinking a celeron box, with a Radeon 9500 softmodded to 9700 with 512 megs of ram. Another thing i was looking into is making it a cube PC (microATX) and was wondering how well these systems run and if anybody has had any problems. Also could you guys recomend good motherboards for the cube PCs. This system is not for playing games (I have a gamming rig) it is soley to play emulators on my tv and probably watch divx. Is a Celeron a good amount of power with the Radeon 9500? SHould I go with the cube or just get a full size ATX? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardnrg Posted June 25, 2004 Posted June 25, 2004 i could run ZSNES on my PIII-800 with a GeForce2-GTS-32MB with all the settings on full absolutely flawless... still do actually since that rig is my entertainment rig that plays dvds/divx and is permanently hooked to the tv... my point is, you don't need much 3D power at all for emulators if any at all... you could probably get away with onboard graphics for NES/SNES emulation... i think any graphics card out now would easily be enough grunt... so yeah, 872MHz with pc100 ram... on Intel 440BX chipset... not amazing, but can easily handle entertainment stuff... I'd say if you had a 1GHz cpu and 512megs of even the cheapest ram it would be more than adequate... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
XvMMMvX Posted June 25, 2004 Posted June 25, 2004 What about the cube PCs? Anybody have any experience with them. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTSticky Posted June 25, 2004 Posted June 25, 2004 I've built several shuttle XPC's for clients. They are all happy with them. One even has a Radeon 9800 Pro in it for gaming. If you aren't overclocking, I think the extra cash for a shuttle is a great investment. Oh yeah, I also put together one of the MSI Multimedia Cube PCs last month. The customer uses it for a radio, MP3 and DVD player.. Love it. All P4's, dunno about AMD. Just not interested after my barton experience. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
XvMMMvX Posted June 26, 2004 Posted June 26, 2004 You had a bad barton experience to, i have had three AMD proccessors and all three motherboards ave gone out one or two times. Its not the proccessors, it is the mobos i have had problems with. But anywyas it wont be overclocked as I have a desktop rig that will still be my main right, this cube will be soly for emulators, dvd, divx and such. THanks for your help. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dasterdly Posted June 26, 2004 Posted June 26, 2004 Does the 9500 have and svideo out? Also, if this will be your entertainment rig, a good sound card might be in order too. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spectrascope Posted June 26, 2004 Posted June 26, 2004 see the link I am working on a similar project http://forums.overclockersclub.com/?showtopic=26339&st=10 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jammin Posted June 26, 2004 Posted June 26, 2004 Have you thought about going ITX? You could buy a VIA ITX mobo which includes an integrated processor (up to 1200mhz) and video and sound (5.1). These are pretty cheap and are perfectly good for media pc's.. plus they are soo small. Just think of a case the size of 2 5.25" drive bays. I'm sure one of these would handle your emulators and divx videos just fine. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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