This is a bit of an updated post for some hardware that sort of fell into my lap that I’m trying to decide what to do with. I found a rig on the trash that has a GTX 970 and after taking off the cooler I learned it has an i7 4790 CPU. For the time it came out, this was pretty top tier hardware, but obviously today it’s dated.
So I was thinking of doing a living room emulation build with this, for games up to wii/PS2, and maybe some older PC games as well. I was originally thinking of going with batocera, but considering I would like to do retro PC gaming as well, I’m not sure this is the best option. I don’t know if bazzite would be the best option either, since that usually focuses on modern pc gaming.
So any thoughts on the best software for this rig, for the uses I’m thinking?
That hardware isn’t even bad, was top tier at the time and still will play any DirectX 9/10/11 game you throw at it at 1080p.
Linux runs great on my i5 4690k and GTX 750 Ti, so you’re all good with 4790 and GTX 970.
EDIT: with 16GB RAM you’re golden, happy gaming