will this pc be able to handle zsnes?

mark84 · Post by **mark84** » Wed Sep 28, 2011 8:52 am

If someone could give me an educated guess i'd be greatful, it's one of those tiny little pc's, going to plug it into my hd tv hopefully. It's VERY budgety but i'm hoping it'll be upto the job of running zsnes (btw i'm too stupid to learn the name of the emulator) smoothly.
Called a Dell Optiplex FX160:
OS: win xp
processor: Intel Atom 230 (1.6GHz) 1Mb Cache (Single Core)
Ram: 1Gb (1x1Gb) DDR2 667MHz
Hd: 160Gb SATA 3GB/s 7200RPM 16Mb Cache
Video: 128mb shared, 'Sis mirage intergrated'
Audio: ADI intergrated HD audio

fullspec is available here:
http://www.manualowl.com/m/Dell/OptiPle ... ual/187376

If anyone can give that a thumbs up or down i'd be really greatful!
Mark.

Gonzo · Post by **Gonzo** » Wed Sep 28, 2011 9:00 am

That system should be more than enough to run zsnes. I use to run zsnes back in the day on a computer with a 500mhz processor and 512 mb of ram and it ran fine. Before that I used to be able to get it to run on a pc with a 200mhz processor and 16 mb of ram. It ran rather crap, even with all the video filters switched off and the sound at 22000hz, but it still ran.

Post by **grinvader** » Thu Sep 29, 2011 6:57 pm

any x86 machine bought in the last decade can handle zsnes

also lol writing bytes b

Post by **odditude** » Thu Sep 29, 2011 9:15 pm

i don't know what I'm more amazed by - that SiS still exists or that Dell used a non-Intel chipset.

also, the tech guide.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Sun Oct 02, 2011 10:56 pm

odditude wrote:i don't know what I'm more amazed by - that SiS still exists or that Dell used a non-Intel chipset.

The former. Dell has produced AMD based systems so of course that isn't entirely true (unless you fix your quote).

I don't think there are any 3rd party mobo chipset makers for a long while now since NVidia had exited the market. This includes VIA (for whatever strange legal reason). Although, I don't remember ALI exiting either... but then again, what options do we really have now? :X

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 8:06 am

Deathlike2 wrote: I don't think there are any 3rd party mobo chipset makers for a long while now since NVidia had exited the market. This includes VIA (for whatever strange legal reason). Although, I don't remember ALI exiting either... but then again, what options do we really have now? :X

Via's more into the embedded systems market these days. Just not a lot of room for competition in the consumer marketspace unless you're cranking out bleeding-edge parts, and Via is focused highly on "good enough" parts.

Post by **odditude** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 2:44 pm

Deathlike2 wrote:(unless you fix your quote)

odditude wrote:i don't know what I'm more amazed by - that SiS still exists or that Dell used a non-Intel chipset for an Intel-based system.

better?

kode54 · Post by **kode54** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 8:23 pm

Well, obviously they did it because it's cheaper that way.

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