So basically before I start dropping money I was wondering what the lowest budget Intel CPU and Nvidia graphics card (I prefer Intel and Nvidia) people recommend for worry free playback of Type X2 games. I'll be using an old 15K arcade monitor so it's not like it will need to process these games in HD but I do want them to run smoothly all the way through. I tried running these games on my i3 laptop which just has crappy on-board graphics and they ran but were unplayable because of how slow they were (Type X games were able to play perfectly fine). I know the original Type X2 hardware in it's beefiest form was just Intel Core 2 Duo with a GeForce 7900GS graphics card but looking at the PC release of SFIV the recommended system specs are substantially higher. The most intensive games I'd like to run are Taito X2 games like SFIV, KOFXIII and BlazBlue. I have a Killer Instinct 2 Arcade cabinet that I restored and I'm thinking of putting in a switcher so I can switch between the legit arcade PCB and a MAME box with a bunch of fighters. I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this question but.
