Welcome to PChood!

My fingers are itching for a new rig, since The Witcher 3 has been postponed till May, I figured I'll postpone my upgrade until then as well!

Congrats on the rig though, enjoy it!

I used emulators for my ps2 games too when i handt a ps2 anymore. The games run very horrible with glitches or cutscenes not working, cant recomend it to any one, every console using 3d runs very bad on pc. 2d consoles and 2d aracade run okay.

They aren't much different than PS360. Going x86 won't make porting easier. The change that singlehandely made porting easy was the use of regular GPUs on PS360. A PowerPC or x86 CPU doesn't make any difference, the compiler will do the job for you.

And optimizing is fitting your code to a closed hardware spec. With the time, you know how to properly use the cache, how to better use your GPU, how to use previouns unused processing cycles to perform new operations. But that only works when you have ONE single spec. The new consoles won't help with PC optimization. The new consoles DON'T have PC architecture. They only replaced a Power CPU with a x86 one, for pretty much the same reasons that Apple did that years ago: x86 is as fast as Power and it's cheaper since it's mass manufactured. The x86 APUs just sealed the deal because now they could get a CPU and GPU in one die and it would be much cheaper.

Edit: PC ports aren't better now. PS4 and X1 made PC ports worse. PS360 were too weak, so even unoptimized ports would run easily on modern PCs. Now, the same unoptimized ports come from consoles with beefy specs and things are terrible. My GTX650 was running everything easily on high/ultra @ 1080p (including Crysis 3 and Metro: LL). Next gen port? Good luck. Evil Within is unplayable, Ryse onlyy at 900p on low, Far Cry 4 on medium, AC: Unity unplayable. Right now, my upgrade recomendation is: go overkill or future games will kill your rig. I'm going with the GTX970 because it's cheap and basically a "Titan slayer". And the price and low power comsumption can allow a future sweet SLI.

Some PS2 games work fine and some don't. The first PS2 game I tested on this new PC was SSX (2000) and it works great. My PS2 disc always got stuck on PS2 on third race so I was happy to finally be able to play this game cos my old PC couldn't do PS2 emulation. But then I tried Deus Ex and it has annoying glitch where the camera is constantly turning right lol

Congrats mate.My first gaming PC was built with emulators in mind.  

Emulation is such an amazing thing,it allows us to experience once again those gems that brought us so much happiness before, or games that we never got to play,exept that this time with a very enhanced experience.Anyways enjoy your new PC.

It looks like a microwave!

Thanks man :) I'm enjoying it more than I had expected, and yes emulation was actually one of the main reasons I wanted to upgrade.

Try using toothpad and other stuff to repair your disc

Esthetically pleasing...check
Compact and efficient...check
Value for money...check
Good performance and future upgrade potential...check

Excellent build!