/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5994470
>the BIOS in some older machines is an absolute CHORE to work with
Yeah, you have to use the keyboard on a 80x25 column display instead of dicking around with the mouse in a 3D UEFI bios.

>and doesn't always have the options you need.
Unless you want to tinker with overclocking, pretty much all bioses are equal.

>you can end up saddled with SATA II or worse for storage controllers if you're not careful - waiting for boot on a TV system is no fun.
Win10 on my sata3 ssd boots in maybe 3 seconds. In fact turning on my HDTV and selecting the right hdmi channel takes about as long.

>hyperthreading and multiple cores almost always means fuck all
a ps2 emulator in 2006 managed to receive straight linear 2x performance increase when I moved from my Athlon 64 to a A64 X2 (making Disgaea playable at full speed). While it is true that with more cores, the performance does not always scale linearly, it does allow you to do shit in the background however, like recording your gameplay for example.

>older GPUs might not even be able to do everything more recent emulators ask of them
My 10 year old Radeon HD6970 can do everything that any emulator requires, besides shit like GPGPU and DX12 acceleration, which I'm not even sure if anything uses. But if that's a problem you can drop in a modern low-end card for $50. That is not to say that most modern computers have onboard video that can do everything you want.

>they might not have the mix of old and modern video out connectors a newer build can have.
Every card in the past decade had at least DVI which you can convert to HDMI or Displayport with a $3 dongle. Or even VGA to be honest. If you want composite/S-Video/component output, they stopped including those on cards in the past decade.

>your old shitbox looks like shit. my new box looks nice and clean
My old shitbox looks nice and clean and is completely quiet, your new box has half the case made out of glass and has a gay rainbow coloured led laser show inside.