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ramos8414:

I have a dell dimension 2400 the max ram is 2 gb, and the best processor It can use is the 3.06 Ghz pentium 4.

ramos8414:


--- Quote from: ppv on September 16, 2013, 12:13:36 pm ---p4 3 ghz
1.5 gig ram
GeForce 6200
KI2 speed: 99.82%.

Never had trouble running those games before.

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What version of mame do you have?

DGP:

I went from a 2.8 dual to a 3.4 dual to a 4 ghz quad in my multi-cade and saw a nice performance boost each time (600 MHz boost at each upgrade and it made a difference as I can now play Blitz and Ridge Racer).

I would agree that going from a 2.66 to 3.06 is not likely to yield any substantial results but it will improve just the same, if the 3.06 cpu is cheap/free then go for it.

* Oh and my games do load faster running an SSD, obviously they play the same once loaded. ;)

 :cheers:

Jason

saint:


--- Quote from: ark_ader on September 16, 2013, 06:23:38 pm ---
--- Quote from: Haze on September 16, 2013, 11:12:18 am ---Given that it's our software you're talking about it would be wise to stop acting like you know more about it than us at every turn, yes.  Also if you want to drop the sarcastic comments, that would be nice.

This is why I can't block you on here unfortunately, because tragic advice like this is only going to get the hopes of somebody up to unreal levels, when the reality is what you're suggesting won't change a thing.

The only way MAME is going to be affected by the underlying OS is if it's degraded to a state of having spyware, adware and other random programs running in the background randomly eating up CPU time, and in that case the OS should just be reinstalled.  The Windows install on one of my secondary boxes is what, 5-6 years old, it's gone through so much Windows churn it takes a good 10 minutes to boot, but it runs MAME exactly the same as it did 6 years ago because once you're running MAME very few things actually matter.

Your intention here is clearly just to give bad advice and waste time, plus drop the odd sarcastic insult, you are detrimental to progress, and bad for this forum.

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Yes Haze.  You are right.  Thanks for letting us know.

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For the sake of my sanity drop the sniping and vitriol please. I don't care if you disagree but do it politely. Thank you for your cooperation in advance, I'm sure this won't need my attention again for which I am greatful.

lilshawn:

don't forget there is different flavors of the P4 processor. the "regular" and the "HT" version. you will see a little boost with the hyper threaded version vs a same speed "regular" version.

i think your real issue here is the slow as all hell DDR1 memory. all things being equal. you should be able to scoop a new(ish) board with ddr2 or even ddr3 for next to nothing now. with a ram speed increase from about 1200 MB/s for DDR1, up to 3200 and 6400MB/s respectively

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