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Gatt:

--- Quote ---I would love to see a recommended system requirements for ..... in one central location ....

the classics .... dk and pac ect ...
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Pretty much anything in the last 5-7 years should run these fine,  including most cell phones most likely.


--- Quote ---the high resource games ... street fighter 4 , blitz and others
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4ghz+


--- Quote ---new shooters , daphine games  ...
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About the same,  and daphne runs fine on anything in the last 5 years easy.


--- Quote ---I would love to know .... that uses what .... roms use RAM ?
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Yes,  they're loaded into RAM during gameplay.  CHD's are streamed into memory IIRC.



--- Quote ---How much ram do I really need ?
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About as much as the largest ROM you're going to load + OS req's.


--- Quote ---My OS also has limits ?
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WinXP and older is limited to 4gigs,  Vista 64 and Win7 adress tera's.


--- Quote ---Others are CPU driven ?
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All of them are at present,  this may change in the foreseeable future,  Mamedev has been rumbling about some GPU offloading.


--- Quote ---Dont I really want a single core processor ?
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No.  At least dual core.  First,  Mame can use multiple cores,  thought atm it's optimized for 2 cores.  Further,  your OS is still running in the background,  so it's eating some CPU cycles.  Ideally a quad-core would be best with Mame set to use 2 cores,  leaving the OS two cores for it's work is ideal for multi-core performance.  You'll see a benefit,  but it's not going to make Blitz playable on a 2.8ghz.  Just give you some added percentages.


--- Quote ---Video Card ?
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Now,  they vid card doesn't matter.  It's possible this may change in the foreseeable future.


--- Quote ---Where does my Hard Drive coming into play ? Can I put all my roms or mp3s on a 5400 rpm HD ?
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The drive is used when the ROM is loaded,  and that's all.  So if you don't mind waiting a few extra seconds,  5400 is fine.  Though with 7200rpm drives costing less than a video game,  I can't imagine why you'd want to buy one.  CHD's may perform a little better with 7200rpm drives,  as they're streamed (more or less).


--- Quote ---Any my OS and frontends on a SSD drive ?

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Keepign your OS on one drive,  and the stuff you're running on another is always a good idea.  An SSD has benefits,  but not for their price right now.  With terra's under $100usd,  there's no reason to buy an SSD  for hundreds.

I'm kinda getting the impression you're trying to use Mame fon a laptop.  This will never be optimal.  Laptops have all kinds of performance reducing issues,  they're heat-limited,  dependent on power cords for full speed,  and slower than a desktop.  Any performance ratings for a desktop is going to be lower than what you'd need with a laptop.
Jasonmm:
Thank you Gatt , be looking for that info ...

jason
shan1784:

--- Quote from: mark shaker on September 16, 2010, 12:29:17 pm ---
--- Quote from: Smeghead on September 16, 2010, 11:03:58 am ---I kinda hate these computer spec gloating battles. Just find me something that plays ridge racer and ill be happy

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I'm actually kinda worried that my stock clocked I5-750 would perform relatively poorly, as MAME does not seem to use extra cores very well. I was curious if a cheaper dual core processor would thrash it.

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This is why I went with the E8400 which should be here on Monday... Although I did test on my i7 930 just to see how the Tekken series performed and it was nuts.. I actually had to use the "speed" mame.exe command line option to slow it down a little... That was at stock settings with no overclock... The i5 750 is a great chip as well so I'm sure you won't see much of a difference at all with a higher end dual core...



--- Quote from: releasedtruth on September 16, 2010, 01:02:59 pm ---A couple guys have run benchmarks on a variety of games so you could use that data to revive a database of benchmarks if you wanted to get started, then compare yours from there.

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=72776.0
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=99114.0

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Thanks for these links... I've was looking for something like this when I was trying to figure out what to upgrade my processor to...
Malenko:

--- Quote from: Gatt on September 17, 2010, 01:12:50 am ---I'm kinda getting the impression you're trying to use Mame fon a laptop.  This will never be optimal.  Laptops have all kinds of performance reducing issues,  they're heat-limited,  dependent on power cords for full speed,  and slower than a desktop.  Any performance ratings for a desktop is going to be lower than what you'd need with a laptop.

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Slower then a desktop? my i5 lappie passes benchmarks set by my quadcore phenom desktop (not flexing my epenis, my GF bought me the laptop as an anniversary gift). Also, you can have the laptop run full on without a power cord, it just kills the battery faster. Heat limited? I dont really understand this. my lappie blows out hot air, but all the monitoring says everything is where it should be. Maybe youre talking about OLD laptops?
LeedsFan:
I'm interested in what is the best "bang for the buck" system for latest 64 bit Mame right now. Is it still dual core the best? Or is i5 670 good?
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