Mini PC Retro Emulation Nightmare ! / Dell Optiplex 3050

whats the spec of this pc ?

You can check in batoceta under system/information if the max cpu clock speed has been throttled. Highly likely in your case OP

Worth checking the CPU isn’t being throttled by a faulty or incompatible power adaptor. Will force the CPU to its lowest clock state.

I bought a optiplex 7040 mini and added 16gb ram and a HDD with 170,000 games and it runs them in 1080p surprisingly

Yes you can get much better performance. Emulation on Windows performs better because of DirectX. Play the same exact games on Windows, and they will perform better because of DirectX.

Does i7 6700T with intel HD 530 + 16GB ram has better performance than this video? Thanks

I just did a simple RAM & SSD upgrade. Mostly used for office work & video watching. But if I decided to get a custom mini itx pc, I’ll probably use my 3050 for emulation up to PS1

Sooo...has performance with this chipset improved at all with Batocera recently? I've been using an older Lenovo M93p with i5 4570T and this has been outstanding, but I fancied something with a bit better Saturn performance and PS2 so I got a HP with the same processor. Have I wasted my money?

I found one of these with an i7 7700t.

best cheapest pc for batocera to buy

would a i5 6500t hd 530 graphics do this too?

Will i5 6500t run ps3 or Xbox 360 ? I just bought one online for 100$

I just ordered one on Amazon, refurbished. Intel i5 6500 2.5GHz, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD, i also ordered a 1TB flashdrive to load Batocera into. I hope i can play all N64 games, and all the Ace Combats in PS2.

I have an Optiplex 3040 and I'm yet to run into any performance issues up to gamecube at all. Even with pretty high resolution scaling. My 3040 has the I5 6500 and I'm still running the single stick of 4gb of ram. Thought about adding another 4 for dual channel but can't find a reason to do so.

I scooped one of these for dirt cheap and I'm thinking about dropping a 4770S in it, but I think I might need a better cooler lmao

Hey i have a question do you think the Dell OptiPlex 3040 SFF will work with ps2 & ps1 emulators or should i just buy a optiplex3050

Glad I found this video when I did. I was about to pull the trigger on the exact same mini pc.
Tbh performance doesn't look that much better than on my current j4125 to be really worth it.
In fact on several systems the celeron performs way better

Which is the best emulator system for pc's?

I have the i5 7500 in a sff with 12gb of ram. Runs game GC at 720p all day and sometimes all night

I recently bought a 3050 Micro with an i7 CPU and upgraded the memory to 16gb RAM, and it plays PS2 games and some PS3 games very smoothly. I can even play almost all Sega Model 3 games without any glitches.

An error that I see many times is the "idea" that all the people have when they say "I have an Intel i5". In the correct name, there is a final "T" that means that it is the less powerful i5 of this serie. Some CPU has also the "U" version, but it is less powerful than the "T". Why it the meaning of all this discourse? The i5-7500 is powerful that an i5-7500T and it could be enought for emulate some games that the "T" version won't. This tiny machine is for an office and it can't run applications that require too many resources

I swear every video has been starting the same where pulls out the pawky's ,last time plz

You should review the Miyoo Mini

I don't know if you tried switching the resolution? I had the same problem on a 3050 and changed the resolution to default to 1080p or 720p and it fixed the problem

its the intel HD630 intergrated gfx thats holding this one back. did you check in the bios to allocate more ram for gfx ?

Amlogic and rockchip... never had anything good from them. Tired of them pushing the same low-end crap. I keep watching these videos in hope one day someone finally pushes out a box with a flagship or near flagshipmchip inside. Heck even a 750g or 835,845,855, or even 865 plus...

But this stuff is just rehashed crap. How many times do we need to see the s905x in yet another junk Chinese board?

In my experience its not so nuch the chipset but the emulators probleem ive treyed bloody raor 2 on 5 difrent emulators on 1 gig box like the super consel x
Some dind even start but some did 1 worked pretty good on 1 gig

Does anyone know if you can use 2 pandoras boxes together to have 4 player games?

Like use the usb out on one pandora into the usb in on the other.

Will the 1st one recognise the other as 2 additional arcade sticks?

I love it 😀
👍👍

Es uno de los mejores para emular

It all you need I think if you want to play it all nice thanks for the review 👍🍻

Shockingly good price, surprisingly bad performance. Maybe it would work better under windows, with Retrobat?

It's pretty good tbf. I wonder, what would the minimum price of a half decent teknoparrot build cost?

Not bad preformance for the price

The case has more space than i thought

For emulation on pc I’ve chose an I72600 with a gtx 1050ti and 8 gb ddr3 1600mhz. It plays basically everything that I’ve tried. Ps2 runs great even at 1440p and when I’ve assembled the pc the total cost was around 300€

On Batocera I had a lot of problems with 3D games. On Windows it works fine. I can also play the 3D games with higher resolution on Windows. I have a i5-6500T processor with 8GB ram.

I think 4th gen i5 for emulation with a dedicated gpu is sort of a sweet spot for emulation even switch runs fine on that

One thing to tinker with on this batocera build is the graphics backend. Were you using openGL for all these tests? Or did you try Vulcan? Also in my experiences, some of the tougher to emulate systems work WAY Way better using Windows with DirectX as the graphics backend which you cannot use in Batocera..

Love your videos now it’s time for you to build your own emulator PC help us build or sale it !!!!!!!🤩

Very neat project! I wish I was more tech savvy to be able to do these things. Good showing and cool video Wicked!👉😃👈

I bought this a couple of weeks ago and it plays PS2, Original Xbox,Game Cube and Sega M2 & M3 perfectly

I had an i3-6100T and I still have an i3-7100T and both of these managed F-Zero GX on GC at native resolution at 60FPS. Update GPU drivers, run in high-perf mode. Use DX11. Allocate as much RAM to GPU in BIOS.

I have a Dell 3080 mini with a 10th gen i5 10500t and that plays up to GameCube no problem, I'm running retrobat on windows 11,vit's a shame the 7th gen wasn't great

Install Windows and enjoy better performance.

My experiences w/ used mini pcs have always been mixed. It seems like alot of them are just wore out. Idk maybe new thermal paste may help. Im typically not a thermal paste guy. If the pc runs slow I just rob the parts from it and chunk it to the trash…. A man always needs extra screws LOL

Intel HD 630 could be issue?

I have a couple of those 3050s lying around here...just found one at the bottom of a closet the other day, so that's how much I value them 🤣

Got a Dell latitude 5520 i5 4th gen Intel 3000 graphics card 4g ram plays up to PSP with some glitching but can't seem to handle VT cut scenes like the warriors could be better but happy for now. I made my own kit with SSD and managed to find the same enclosure on Amazon another wicked review mate 😄👍