should be fine to run epsxe, the gpu is crap, but you can use the internal software plugin if the internal opengl plugin doesn't work well, your cpu speed is more than fast enough....

***EDIT***
Just realized it is a desktop and NOT a laptop, in that case you can get a better GPU (get a cheap gtx 950) and run about anything you want... you can run retroarch and use mupen64 plus next and get great N65 emulation(needs a decent opengl card which the gtx 950 is)
heck for $220 you can get a gtx 1660 and run most PC games (though you need to upgrade to 16gb ram too)

 

Thank you both, I'm still setting it up but so far everything seems to be working fine.

Next step is to get my hands on an old PS1 and find a way to extract the Bios. The tutorials I've read all seem to require additional PS1 hardware which I'll have to track down.

Alternatively from what I've read some games will function reasonably well without the PS1 Bios image.

Is there a good place to view an up to date list of compatible games that run without the PS1 Bios?

Just realized it is a desktop and NOT a laptop, in that case you can get a better GPU (get a cheap gtx 950) and run about anything you want... you can run retroarch and use mupen64 plus next and get great N65 emulation(needs a decent opengl card which the gtx 950 is)

heck for $220 you can get a gtx 1660 and run most PC games (though you need to upgrade to 16gb ram too)

From what I can see there is a free PCI Express 16x 2.0 slot on the motherboard but there are complications to installing a graphics card.

It appears that all of the LENOVO model computers use a special 14 pin connector for their power supplies, and the default onboard PSU doesn't have much juice being rated at only 240 watt.

There are a few 24 Pin to 14 Pin adapter wires for sale online, but I keep reading the words "Melting", "Fire" and "Motherboard is dead" when I'm looking at them so I'm a bit hesitant to try it.

Unfortunately the video cards I've found all require at least 300 watts and to fit the case only a low profile card is viable so that limits it to cards like the low profile GT 710 or GTX 1050 GeForce models. (Unless I take everything out and place it in a new case, which is a potential future option.)

On the plus side I can definitely increase the RAM from 4G to 8G without any problems.

 

Rock on!

I'll acquire the machine and post the results.

Thank you for the information.

 

I have a i3 380M (laptop) and I can run all psx games at 1x of internal resolution and some even with some shaders, using Beetle PSX, ePSXe, Mednafen or Xebra. And sometimes I even can stream using OBS Studio

cheers!

 

using XEBRA I've never come across a game that would need to use "BIOS". (in fact, the XEBRA documentation like Sony use the term "OS", Operating System, to refer to the software present in PS1) with the same list of games, I needed to use BIOS in ePSXe, in some games, such as Resident Evil 2.

I use the configuration below and I have good performance in all my games.

you can check the "Progressive" box to minimize the interpolation lines present in only a few games and you can also increase the value in "Display Skip" by 1 or 2 to increase the performance of the emulator. in some games there is negative impact, the image is no longer fluid, but not with others. you need to test.

as the memory of your pc is DDR3, I would not indicate investing money in this computer. now in July AMD will sell the third generation Ryzen and to contain it Intel has already announced discounts of 10 to 15% on its processors. New hardware should become cheaper, and it's just new hardware that makes up for buying even the most modest models.

in the case of emulation until PS2 does not make sense to buy a GPU more powerful than an NVIDIA 1030, since it is already overkill for all emulators and shaders, and it has versions with electric consumption as low as 19W!

however, a Ryzen 2400 G has an integrated iGPU better than a 1030 in processing power. and this is the great magic of computing: prices are decreasing as processing power increases. it turns out that old parts are expensive and very slow compared to the same new entry models.

cheers!