Gaming PC powerful enough for tecnoparrot and Dolp

[cr5000462]

Hi,

I am building an arcade cab/sit down/cockpit style racer for Mario Kart GP & DX Mainly.

I would eventually like to use MAMA, TecnoParrot and Dolphin on it, so I can get the likes of Outrun 2, Mario kart GP2 and the Newer Mario Kart GPDX .

I have the gear I need, EXCEPT the PC, Can anyone help me by recommending a gaming PC in the region of £300-£500 that will have enough umph... and not struggle capable of doing all of the above - Happy to by a Used machine.

Or even what specs you could recommend?

 

[Doctonic]

I recommend the same thing I have recommended to a few others recently Will be closer to the £500 end of the market but should keep you gaming for a long time.

Should not have any real issues running the emulators at 1080p/1440p. Not sure about pushing it to 4k, But why would you really want to.

AMD = Ryzen 5 3600/3600x, 256GB M2 Drive for OS + Largest Mechanical you can afford. Minimum of 16GB (2x8GB) Ram and an RX 570 or 580 Graphics card. 700W PSU

Intel = Intel I5 10400F, 256GB M2 Drive for OS + Largest Mechanical you can afford, Minimum of 16GB (2x8GB) Ram and a GTX 1650 or 1660 Graphics card. 700W PSU

Hope that helps a bit.

 

[trev1976]

I'm running a AMD Ryzen 5 3600 a gtx 980ti and 16gb Ram and it seems to be tearing through all emulation I've thrown at it no problem.

 

[cr5000462]

Hi Folks,

I ended up buying the following for £550, but imagine I will have to upgrade some things, can anyone recommend what to upgrade? or what it should be capable of as-is,

I pick it up tomorrow

Thermaltake Core P5 Temp Mid Tower ATX Case with Tempered Glass Sides and Front.intel core i5-7600K CPU @ 3.80 GHz, 16 GB of DDR4 Ballistix Sport ram (4 x 4GB),

Asus GeForce GTX 1070 8GB ROG Strix Graphics Card,

Asus Strix Z270F LGA1151 Gaming Motherboard,

Thermaltake liquid CPU cooler,

Seagate Barracuda 1TB Harddrive,

Samsung 750 EVO 250 GB SSD

Thermaltake Smart DPS G 600 Watt power supply.

Gamdias Hermes Gaming Mechanical Keyboard and a Razer Abyssus 1800 mouse

 

[cr5000462]

Thinking of swapping the 4x4gb Ballistix ram to x2 of these :Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB DDR4

What would you recommend for the HD and SSD? worth upgrading them?

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Talking out aloud here now, IF I wanted to ever play 4K games in the future, would it be a case of swapping EVERYTHING out?

 

[yoganuggy]

It depends on if you are using it with a crt. If using an LCD pick any card your budget can allow. If CRT, swap the nvida graphics card for an ati.

I'm not up to speed on getting modern ati cards that have digital only working with a crt but the last model they made with pure analogue out was the r9 380x card.

SSD is fine. If you have a few cabs you can get a small SSD or nvme and put the large game files on network NAS to make it easy to manage from a single location.

Also the 3300x processors are great value.

 

[cr5000462]

Its going to be a specific gaming monitor I use (If I can find one to fit a max tune 3 cab!)

basically, ive bought a max tune cab with no guts, Ill be modifying the dash etc to fit a PC steering wheel, then I will put my gaming PC in it, and fit a gaming monitor into where the old max tune crt was

 

[ZedEx48K]

Thinking of swapping the 4x4gb Ballistix ram to x2 of these :Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB DDR4

What would you recommend for the HD and SSD? worth upgrading them?

Don't waste your cash and time, you will see little difference, a few fps at best.

ZedEx48K2020-08-08 08:43:17

 

[cr5000462]

Thanks, will my system cope with the emulators?

 

[ZedEx48K]

I can't see it having problems with TP.

 

[cr5000462]

Thanks, sorry pc noob here.

If it's okay with to, I assume dolphin and mame will be ok too?

 

[8bitplus]

My racing cabinet computer runs all the Technoparrot games perfectly.
Intel i5 7500 (6500 was also perfect)

8Gb DDR4

Nvidia Quadro k2000 (2gb)

Generic SSD

Runs very quite and cool on stock cooling.

 

[El Capitan]

Feels like there is a (small) market for someone to build these setups.

I'd love a plug and play technoparrot setup.

I realise it's not that easy in practice...

 

[2huwman]

Lots of Teknoparrot games don't need much in the way of computing power. I've been using a Ryzen 3 2200g to play several of the Teknoparrot racing games (Outrun 2 SPDX, Chase HQ 2, Wacky Races, Dirty Drivin, H2Overdrive) using only the integrated graphics - so no external GPU at all! Granted, I only play at 720p or 480p or whatever they were made for, so no 4k upscaling.

As far as I'm aware, TP doesn't really emulate the games (apart from the I/O), but acts more as a loader, as many were designed to play on old PC hardware (which is pretty feeble by today's standards). Dolphin will be a different matter though, as that does fully emulate the games.

Happy to share my setup when I've tested a few more games if anyone's interested.

 

[grunger106]

Run TP on my driver
PC is nothing special - i3, 8GB RAM, and a 750Ti - bought the lot as parts for £100ish all used off ebay.
£20 for the motherboard, £20 for the CPU and cooler, £50 for the GPU, £10 for the RAM and I had a PSU spare, but a decent PSU will set you back £40 or so and I bought a brand new SSD for £20.

It does the TP drivers (Outrun2, Sega Rally 3, Dayonta, and a few more), the MAME drivers, Model2/3 drivers (SR/Daytona) and a couple of Naomi drivers (Crazy Taxi and I think that's about it)

I had MK running via TP, but as it's all in Japanese I don't have it on there now - even with the language patch it still felt a bit odd.

Works fine for all the above, so £160 would do all you want.