Looking for a budget emulator box

[bfish]

1. Basically I'm wanting to make a little emulation box that my girlfriend can hook up to her TV. I'm looking at using a GameEx front end and load it upo with a bunch of emulators and games, so the most strenuous tasks the PC will be undertaking is this front end running a N64 emulator or whatnot, and I don't think thats a whole lot. A big note is that I'll need an easy way to output video and audio to TV, either S-Video and audio, or whatever.

I don't think I really need an optical drive, or a huge hdd. I was thinking it'd probably be pretty easy to have a solid-state pc.

2. I'd prefer to keep this as cheap as possible, under like $150. I think this can be done if I don't splurge for a small form factor case.

3. USA

4. No brand preference.

5. I have a bunch of hard drives lying around I could probably use if needed.

6. I've looked at some similar threads.

7. I don't really think I'd need to consider overclocking for what I'm wanting to do.

8. Within the next two weeks preferred, not a huge time crunch though.

Thanks for all the suggestions guys, I appreciate it.

 

[wetech]

might want to look into one of the Via C7 integrated motherboards, they can be had for < $100, and include MB, CPU, integrated graphics. Or similar solutions from AMD / Intel. I forgot the names of their offerings, I think one is called Atom. Add $20 worth of RAM, a cheap case, and one of your HD's and you're set.

Double check that performance wise, they'll do the trick. I'd imagine that they would though