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SpatzST:

--- Quote from: cools on July 28, 2014, 06:52:44 am ---My MAME CPU bible is here: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html#

Picked up an Intel Core i5-4690 based on that (bang for buck). Important to note - if not overclocking you don't need a fancy motherboard, and newer chipsets do not usually offer any performance benefit over older ones: it's all in the CPU. So scrimp a bit on the motherboard by buying an older reliable one and use the savings on a better CPU and fast timing RAM.

My recent full spec is here: http://rogalian.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/windows-7-mame-pc-in-taito-egret-3.html

Need to fix the pictures :/

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4gb ram is enough? even with running win 7?

also what was the final cost for that build? Just the components that is
big10p:
My MAME PC has an i3-4130 @ 3.4GHz and runs everything I've tried just great - I can't see how an i5 could do any better. For graphics, I have a GTX750 Ti which does a great job of running games at 1920x1080 with full HLSL effects.
cools:

--- Quote from: SpatzST on July 28, 2014, 10:29:00 pm ---
--- Quote from: cools on July 28, 2014, 06:52:44 am ---My MAME CPU bible is here: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html#

Picked up an Intel Core i5-4690 based on that (bang for buck). Important to note - if not overclocking you don't need a fancy motherboard, and newer chipsets do not usually offer any performance benefit over older ones: it's all in the CPU. So scrimp a bit on the motherboard by buying an older reliable one and use the savings on a better CPU and fast timing RAM.

My recent full spec is here: http://rogalian.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/windows-7-mame-pc-in-taito-egret-3.html

Need to fix the pictures :/

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4gb ram is enough? even with running win 7?

also what was the final cost for that build? Just the components that is

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4GB is overkill!

Final cost came to about £500 including interfaces and cables. The case alone was just under half of that...
cools:
Just fixed the pictures.
nitrogen_widget:

--- Quote from: cools on August 01, 2014, 09:33:34 am ---

4GB is overkill!

Final cost came to about £500 including interfaces and cables. The case alone was just under half of that...

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32 or 64 bit Windows?
I'd think once you loaded up a .CHD you'd be out of RAM.
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