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Time for a new system
PL1:
Thanks for playing, ark, but it's not for a cab. :lol
Orders placed for the i3-4130 kit, Win7 Home, and WD caviar black drive.
Everything should be here around the 17th -- January 17th. While I was checking out, the MB sold out, leaving the kit on backorder. :o
Scott
Generic Eric:
Too late for my sage advice. I was going to suggest that you treat yourself. Anyhow, how much RAM?
PL1:
--- Quote from: Generic Eric on December 13, 2013, 05:11:16 pm ---Too late for my sage advice. I was going to suggest that you treat yourself. Anyhow, how much RAM?
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This is treating myself -- just a bit earlier (and less smoothly on the transition) than planned. :lol
The kit comes with 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600 MHz Patriot Viper Xtreme.
The barebones kit is here and HDD here for anyone who cares. ;D
Scott
Haze:
both will make for excellent MAME machines, high clock i3 is by far the best balance you can get right now, will absolutely fly where single core performance and memory bandwidth are the bottlenecks which is still 95% of MAME, and will excel in cases where dual core performance is important too which is another 3%, there are only a couple of cases that really benefit from more and typically you have to sacrifice clock speed then too.
plus the majority of stuff won't tax it, which means it will run cool and have a good long life, as opposed to a weaker cpu that will be maxed out and driving the fans at full throttle all the time (== more heat, more stress on the system, earlier death)
should see you good for everything that is realistically in the realm of playable for several years.
404:
--- Quote from: PL1 on December 13, 2013, 04:36:51 pm ---Thanks for playing, ark, but it's not for a cab. :lol
Orders placed for the i3-4130 kit, Win7 Home, and WD caviar black drive.
Everything should be here around the 17th -- January 17th. While I was checking out, the MB sold out, leaving the kit on backorder. :o
Scott
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In the meantime, you can fiddle around with your current system to see what's wrong? Any blown caps or something noticeable on that rig?
--- Quote from: Haze on December 13, 2013, 07:47:00 pm ---both will make for excellent MAME machines, high clock i3 is by far the best balance you can get right now, will absolutely fly where single core performance and memory bandwidth are the bottlenecks which is still 95% of MAME, and will excel in cases where dual core performance is important too which is another 3%, there are only a couple of cases that really benefit from more and typically you have to sacrifice clock speed then too.
plus the majority of stuff won't tax it, which means it will run cool and have a good long life, as opposed to a weaker cpu that will be maxed out and driving the fans at full throttle all the time (== more heat, more stress on the system, earlier death)
should see you good for everything that is realistically in the realm of playable for several years.
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Very good, sound advice here. May have to pick up an economy i3 rig.