I have a really nice system and I recently got into emulation because I wanted to see how the games I grew up with would look like on a 1200p monitor with some fancy anti aliasing.
My system specs are:
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Quad Core @ 3.8Ghz
2 x 2GB A-DATA 1600Mhz RAM 9-9-9-24
ATi Radeon 4890...