I just stumbled upon a computer on the garbage that has a GTX 970. Unsure of the cpu, but it’s an MSI Z97 pc mate motherboard, so 4th or 5th gen intel. I also have a PC that my friend gave me when they moved that has an R9 290x graphics card and a gigabyte Z97x gaming motherboard. I need to plug them into see what the actual CPUs are, but they should be fairly similar, considering they both seem to be built for gaming.

Could any of this hardware be used to make a good emulation box? What do you think would be the best combo out of all of this? Just based on specs, I’m thinking the best would be the GTX 970 on the gigabyte motherboard, then just pick whichever of the two cpus are better out of the two, and max out the ram between whatever the two have. As far as software, I’m thinking I will go with batocera.

Any thoughts on this, or things I might be missing? What games could I expect to be able to emulate on this? I’m hoping for everything up to wii/xbox one/ps3. Is that a reasonable expectation?