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Mikezilla:

Ok Ill relay the message. Haha really? Pac man huh? Thats funny. Sweet. 3.0 pentium, with what, a gig of ram? What does the HT stand for? Am I a tard for not knowing?  :lol Thanks for the info.

smalltownguy:

The 'HT' stands for Hyper Threaded. Some applications/OS's make use of it for faster CPU bus speed throughput, processing a 'multi-threaded' codeset of instructions. Makes the CPU appear to act like a dual-core in some instances.

Means pretty much jack sh*t for MAME, though, since MAME operates as a 'single threaded' set of code.

It DID, however, give me a little boost for N64 and PSX emulators.





Mikezilla:

Gotcha. He doesnt want to spend a whole lot of money on the comp portion of the cab, but he definitely wants to run the Marverl vs Capcom-esqe games. Those are his favorites. I couldnt really tell him cause I have a dual core with a couple gigs of ram so I dont really know where it would falter, or be unplayable. What would you recommend? System wise.

smalltownguy:

Look for a Dell Optiplex GX270 or similar. They're slim form factor PC's fit nicely in tight spaces and usually work well for a typical MAME cab setup.

Here's one for $69 that ends in a few hours:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=390237806319





Turnarcades:

Err, dunno what's wrong with your setup smalltownguy, but no 2d fighters struggle on the specs i've listed (even the p3's). There should be no issue with any of the 'vs' series fighters, unless you're running a later build of Mame and they were affected by the core change ( like even some classics were).

Here's a video I did of it running on a 2ghz with 256 ram, and it was the same down to 800mhz with 128 ram:



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