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    Higher powered Pi 4 alternatives for Retropie

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    • George SpiggottG
      George Spiggott
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      He just dropped anoher video with a similar spec machine. A lot of these pre gen 8 machines are unable to run Windows 11 so I imagine the price on them is going to continue to fall.

      Currently running:
      Retropie 4.8.9 on a Pi Zero 2W (Overclock Settings: CPU 1400Mhz)
      ES-DE on a GMKtec K6 (Windows 11, 32GB RAM)

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        dodonpachi @George Spiggott
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        @george-spiggott I just learned retropie x86 is a thing. Have you tried it before? I think replicating my current Pi 4 build/theme on a beefier x86 device may be just the ticket.

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        • George SpiggottG
          George Spiggott @dodonpachi
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          @dodonpachi no I have a build that looks like Retropie on my X86 PC but it runs from a Windows icon. I had considered starting a thread on here about it but I'm not sure that it is really 'Retropie'.

          Currently running:
          Retropie 4.8.9 on a Pi Zero 2W (Overclock Settings: CPU 1400Mhz)
          ES-DE on a GMKtec K6 (Windows 11, 32GB RAM)

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            dodonpachi @George Spiggott
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            @george-spiggott @barbudreadmon What are your thoughts on an Intel NUC5i7RYH, for my purposes? (IE, Mame, CV1000 and 3D fighters like Soul Calibur and Street Fighter EX, etc)

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              barbudreadmon @dodonpachi
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              @dodonpachi as i said, MAME has a few drcs available when you run it on x86/x86_64 (i can't guarantee they are enabled by default though), so performance will be less likely to be a problem on x86/x86_64, and in the first place if you have a 3+ Ghz cpu performance won't be a problem on those games even without drcs.

              FBNeo developer - github - forum

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              • George SpiggottG
                George Spiggott @dodonpachi
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                @dodonpachi said in Higher powered Pi 4 alternatives for Retropie:

                @george-spiggott @barbudreadmon What are your thoughts on an Intel NUC5i7RYH, for my purposes? (IE, Mame, CV1000 and 3D fighters like Soul Calibur and Street Fighter EX, etc)

                If that's in your budget it looks like it will be more than up to the task with an STR of almost 1900.

                Currently running:
                Retropie 4.8.9 on a Pi Zero 2W (Overclock Settings: CPU 1400Mhz)
                ES-DE on a GMKtec K6 (Windows 11, 32GB RAM)

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