Which of these budget systems is best to play emulators on

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G'gay all, Im just wanting to know your thoughts of which of these two budget systems would be the best for running Dreamcast, Wii & PS2 emulators on?

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CPU= AMD FX-6300
GPU=MSI 1GB Radeon HD7770 (R7770)
Mobo= AsRock 980DE3-U3S3 Am3 980
Ram= 4GB Patriot Sig. DDR3@1600mhz
HDD= 1TB WD Green 5,400RPM SATA 3
PSU= Corsair VS550, 550watt

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#2.
APU= AMD A10-6800K
Mobo= AsRock FM2A75-PRO4 A75 FM2
RAM= 8GB (2 x4GB) G.Skill Sniper DDR3 @1866mhz
HDD= 1TB WD Green 5,400RPM SATA 3
PSU= Corsair VS550, 550watt

I Will be reusing my case & optical & flash card drives that are sitting in an old pentium D desktop.

Also, please keep in mind all I use my pc for is playing the mentioned emulators, web browsing & playing team fortress 2 & battlefield heroes on the odd occasion.

Thanks for any help guys :)
 
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Hi there, just to let you know emulators are very easy programs to run, my laptop from 2010 can play all the emulators you mentioned and more, if you are solely buying the computer the use emulators i would suggest buying cheaper parts, but if you wan't to get into the pc gaming scene, such as playing BF4 and other games like that i would suggest your first choice, it has a great CPU and a good graphics card capable of playing most new games on max settings. But like i said if you are only buying this computer to emulate buy some cheaper components but if you are going to play more modern pc games get your first choice. Jack :)
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Hi there, just to let you know emulators are very easy programs to run, my laptop from 2010 can play all the emulators you mentioned and more, if you are solely buying the computer the use emulators i would suggest buying cheaper parts, but if you wan't to get into the pc gaming scene, such as playing BF4 and other games like that i would suggest your first choice, it has a great CPU and a good graphics card capable of playing most new games on max settings. But like i said if you are only buying this computer to emulate buy some cheaper components but if you are going to play more modern pc games get your first choice. Jack :)
 
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Thanks for your quick reply Jack, about 70% of my time spent on my Pc is playing emulators, mostly revisting my youth through jnes & MAME (I know alot of you would laugh at me for wanting one of those rigs for that) but its always nice to have the option to play the more recent system emulators aswell. My current system is a crappy lenovo thinkpad G550 (pentium D t4400 @ 2.2Ghz, 6GB Ram with crappy gma 4000) & it struggles to run project64! So you can understand me wanting a system with a little bit more under the hood, with out going completely stupid. If the FX system will be capable of running modern games is it safe to assume that it will be able to convert MKV files to MP4 (for playback on my tablet) a bit quicker than my craptop?
Thanks :)
***sorry for my ignorance, I haven't built myself a rig in 6+ years & technology has moved forward heaps in that time & I haven't managed to stay up to date with it all
 
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Don't worry that system can take anything you through at it (well maybe not crysis 3 but nothing can handle that very well) Anyway if you have any other questions just ask :)
 
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Thanks again for your input mate, I built the FX-6300 system.Although I ended up going with a slightly different setup to what I had listed.

I ended up downgrading the the GPU to a MSI 1GB HD7750 OC edition (since emulators rely on CPU more than GPU) & used the cash I saved there on slightly better G-skill RAM & a Antec NEO Eco 520w PSU, instead of the inferior Corsair VS550.

All in all, I'm very happy with my new rig, it does everything that I need it to & only cost me $430 including a new LG/Hitachi burner that I wasn't originally going bother with :)
 
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