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thaddeussmith:


--- Quote from: Steve248 on January 05, 2013, 03:34:32 am ---
--- Quote from: kahlid74 on January 03, 2013, 10:00:05 am ---If you're looking to play NFL Blitz 99 you're going to need north of 9Ghz of processing power total. 

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Hi,

As a 9 GHz processor does not exist I assume you are adding up the total value of the cores? In the case of a 3GHz processor with 4 cores it does not run at 12GHz, it runs at 3GHz but has the ability to multitask much more efficiently but only if the applications are compatible.

Recent versions of MAME do seem to be able to take advantage of muti cores but this does not make it run at 6 or 12 GHZ. I guess a pipe analogy is useful. Multi cores make the pipe bigger but does not make the water go through faster. So more data can be processed at a time but it does not get processed faster. I think that makes sense.

Anyway, where all this helps is with choosing the most appropriate processor. For purely running MAME, a high clock rate and less concern about the number of cores will be better. Even though MAME can make use of multiple cores it will not make very good use of more than one most of the time.

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or he was being facetious.

clok:

I just started a thread about this ( search failed me ) but am too wondering some stuff.. it seems the intel 2500K will do the job.. on almost everything. And as AMD is step behind  how far a step behind? will a AMD Multi core 4.0GHz (doesn't help AMD has so may different cores now, but they are within $10-30 of each other) do enough to play Blitz? Somebody must have a cheap AMD running mame. A cheap AMD and MB is about $150, a cheap Intel 2500K setup is about $100+ more (if you want to future proof a bit with OC options its $200+ more)..  I would prefer blitz in a playable state.. and some slight stuttering wouldn't be end of world.. but I simply have no idea.. and cant find anybody who has ran an AMD with any google searchs. My last setup was a e8400 OC to 3.8 or 4.0 Ghz and as far as I can remeber it ran everything I wanted.. I know I played a Blitz game and Gauntlet Dark legeacy..

So anyboyd got one of these Newer $100-140 AMD chips going with Mame?

edekoning:

The i5-2500K (sandy bridge) has been replaced by the i5-3570K (ivy bridge). For OC you would want a Z77 chipset motherboard. If you don't care about OC get a far cheaper B75 chipset board. If you want to know how much faster a 3570K is compared to an i3 or even a AMD FX processor, check out http://www.anandtech.com/bench/. There you can also compare GPU's or SSD's, and read in-depth hardware reviews.

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