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ark_ader:
I have some time off this week and I have some resources to test the A-10 with the latest mame. 
pbj:
I just want the cheapest machine possible that will play Gauntlet 100%.  Do the leg work on that, ark, and get back to me.

 :cheers:
Warborg:

--- Quote from: nimda79 on January 23, 2014, 11:19:03 am ---
You did miss a point of sustainability that I was trying to avoid with the e8400 and the e6400, those sockets are getting harder to support and find "good" motherboard for. There are a few that do support cheaper DDR3 but most are DDR2 which has been phased out as well, so it costs out the wazoo (just like the 775 motherboards). Since 775 was release, there has been 1156, 1155, and now 1150 sockets for lower end systems.

Cpu-world.com is NOT biased an any way. They take benchmarks then you choose which processors to compare them to based on the same benchmarks.
I.E. an E6400 vs G3220 http://www.cpu-world.com/Compare/383/Intel_Core_2_Duo_E6400_vs_Intel_Pentium_Dual-Core_G3220.html

Based on BENCHMARKS the G3220 is 2x's faster than the E6400 in Single and Multi-Thread operations. Even current AMD low-end FM2's that run at 4Ghz (6790K) run slower in single thread operations.


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I little while ago I found myself in the same boat several months back, through an odd confluence of events my GF managed to "water" my media PC along with some flowers, thereby killing the mobo.  I knew for a fact after some testing that the mobo was gone, not 100% certain about the CPU (or RAM as far as that goes)...  It was an E6600 w/2GB DDR2.  I had some extra DDR2 sitting around and the option to fishing out another E6600 or E8400 if need be, but I was at the same crossroad as far as the mobo, 775 is outdated and at least as expensive as a cheap modern board (plus if I wanted additional RAM, as you pointed out DDR2 is more than DDR3 due to it's being phased out).  So after looking at the Frys add plus doing a little reading, I found that they had a G2120 on sale for like $60 and a mobo for another $45 (and a friend of mine had 8GB of 1600Mhz Viper RAM sitting around from an upgrade that he donated to me to revive my media PC...  :)  ).  So would I use this CPU for a gaming rig?  Of course not...  That's not really what it's meant for, but for the price I found it for it ran my media center very smoothly (better than the E6600) plus the EMUs I've thrown at it (PCSX2, Dolphin, MAME, SNES9x) plus a few middle of the road PC games (oh, and added a GTX 550 Ti to it, a leftover from my GF's PC upgrade).  I can't say how it runs things such as Gauntlet Legends as I really haven't tried...

So yeah, I know a lot of people like to floor it when shopping for hardware regardless of the application, but if your goals for the build are modest and the budget low, there isn't anything wrong with going with configs like this...  And by using a more modern platform you also open the door to some easier upgrades if you find that is what you need.  With my current Media PC, if I felt I needed more juice down the road, I could just drop another CPU in it.  If I had just rebuilt the system as it was it would have cost me more and any further upgrade would have been a complete rebuild.
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