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Hey all,
I've seen Eskro's builds and love all the effort he's put in...I'm looking for the best reccomendation for an htpc that would use advanced launcher to also play emulators up n64, playstation, and gamecube.
There are so many options from intel NUC to Zotac boxes to Assrock boxes - I'm confused. Should I build my own for this or do you think one of Eskro's builds would suffice?
I assume I will need windows if I want to run emulators (versus just using openelec).
Thanks in advance,
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CPU is important for emulation and windows is definitely better for emulators - there's more of them available. I dual boot with windows and openelec because openelec is better as a media center. I got okish frame rates with dolphin and GameCube games with a dual core athlon at 3.2 GHz. With a i5 3570 I get great frame rates in gamecube and ps2 games. Best to check the forums of the newest console you want to emulate for CPU recommendations, but from experience you'll get great results with a i5 3570.
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2013-07-11, 01:42
(This post was last modified: 2013-07-11, 01:51 by teeedubb.)
Can you upgrade the CPU in that build? Best to check in the Dolphin emu forums to be sure that that CPU can handle GameCube games. Maybe a bigger ssd for windows, I wouldn't get any smaller than 64gb for windows, more if you're going to have a lot of ROMs with fan art. Everything else looks good.
EDIT: do you plan on keeping the ROMs on a external drive or something, they are several gigabytes each for GameCube and 700 mb for psx plus the other platforms you want to emulate too.
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2013-07-11, 01:56
(This post was last modified: 2013-07-11, 02:00 by teeedubb.)
Same as above, check the CPU will cooe with gamecube, bigger ssd if you want to keep fan art on it (I recommend it) and a large HDD for the ROMs.
Also check the PSU will handle a upgraded CPU.
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Funny thing, I was saying how AMD APUs would be perfect for "emulating the console experience". I hope AMD makes large strides and can get an APU that can give similar performance levels of an Xbox One or PS4 by 2015, especially in a mobile format. That would give MS something to think about.
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Awesome - thanks for the input.