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wesbrown18:

The Q5550 is a fantastic CPU.  I will say that a quad core CPU of a recent generation can be more useful than a dual core, all other factors such as clock rate and instructions per clock are equal.  It's not entirely correct when you say that MAME cannot use more than a dual core, implying that it's all you're ever going to need.

What about the operating system?  What about background services or services like the window manager and in the case of Groovy Arcade, X11?  If MAME pegs two cores, any use of the CPU by the system would impact on MAME.

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