@substring cheers bud, its not particularly new hardware, it was running windows 7, and the hard-drive i will be using currently has vista installed, it has been used as a Netflix slave PC for the past few months and just thought it was time it got some actual use again!

I'm looking to run Recalbox on a larger desktop pc, its an i5 unit with inbuilt graphics, its run its course now and i have a new PC, just thought with a small linux system it would make a good media centre/ emulator for small usage in my shared lounge. cheers for any replies