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I am looking for recommendations on the CHEAPEST but highest PERFORMANCE (oxymoron, I know) build I can get for the Lakka emulation OS. I have very little experience with lakka... as in, I finally got it to work on a terribly old Dell Dimension 4600C (Single core P4, 2GB Ram, PNY GeForce 6200 DDR2 256MB) but the performance is abysmal.

Please help an emulation noob...

Thanks!
 
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I'm not sure about the Pi performance for PS1/N64 era games (never looked into emulating those on it), that's the dawn of 3D games so the computation power required increased exponentially to allow that. It can handle 2D so NES/SNES/Sega Genis era games no problem. You can even buy little cases that look like a NES for it if you wanted to.

The 4560 should have all the power you need, you can probably throw that graphics card away as well the onboard iGPU should be more than up to the the task. Actually the iGPU is probably more powerful that that GPU.

From what I can see that GPU should do the job, but would be pointless if paired with a CPU from the last few gens since the iGPU can do the work on its own.
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Shouldn't need anything more than a Pentium G4560 and 4 GB of RAM for that kind of work. Heck you can do the same thing with a Raspberry Pi.

Your bad performance is likely coming from the single core nature of the CPU more than anything else. As you are asking to run linux, an emulator and the game inside the emulator at the same time.
 
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Is raspberry pi the best way to go? Im trying to be able to play up to PS1/ N64 Games. Honestly, whatever grants me the best price to performance ratio is what I'm going after.

On another note, assuming I were to stick with the PC route for emulation, should a PNY GeForce 6200 DDR2 256MB gfx card be a decent option if I acquired a dual core processor and supported mobo?
 
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I'm not sure about the Pi performance for PS1/N64 era games (never looked into emulating those on it), that's the dawn of 3D games so the computation power required increased exponentially to allow that. It can handle 2D so NES/SNES/Sega Genis era games no problem. You can even buy little cases that look like a NES for it if you wanted to.

The 4560 should have all the power you need, you can probably throw that graphics card away as well the onboard iGPU should be more than up to the the task. Actually the iGPU is probably more powerful that that GPU.

From what I can see that GPU should do the job, but would be pointless if paired with a CPU from the last few gens since the iGPU can do the work on its own.
 
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