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| yotsuya:
--- Quote from: nitrogen_widget on September 10, 2014, 12:12:52 pm --- --- 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... --- End quote --- 32 or 64 bit Windows? I'd think once you loaded up a .CHD you'd be out of RAM. --- End quote --- RAM's so cheap that it's overkill that isn't going to break the bank. I'd go 4-8 if you're running 64-bit. |
| cools:
64bit. There are precisely zero of the larger CHD games I want to play, I don't even bother storing them. Even so, MAME doesn't load the whole CHD at once. 8GB wouldn't have broken the bank but it would've been unused, so money better spent on other parts ;) At the time the 4GB was £28 (special offer), the 8GB equivalent was £65. Name a game you'd like me to test and watch the RAM usage of. |
| dkersten:
2 gigs is more than enough. Granted software has become bloated over the years, but 10 years ago we were running 32 bit OS's on 256 megs of ram and you could run mame and even some great games.. 64 bit only means it CAN use more than 3 gigs of memory, doesn't mean you have to. The latest cab I built had 2 gb and I never maxed it out, even with every option turned on, 1080 resolution for both mame and the FE (big image files for the layout and artwork), and running killer instinct with a hefty CHD. I still had over 500 mb free even when the cpu was pegged out and all the plugins were loaded. 4gb is more than sufficient unless you are going to be running 6 or 8 other programs in the background while playing mame... I often have 15-20 windows open at once on my work computer, and not just web browsers, but memory hogs like photoshop, dreamweaver, and illustrator along with 3 or 4 spreadsheets, email, a few web pages, 2 different browsers, and sometimes a handful of other programs as well as a few dozen various programs running in the background. And the 12 gigs of ram I have in this has never run out. Heck, I have loaded 127 excel files at once, while all that other stuff was going, and didn't run out of physical memory. Just because it is cheap doesn't mean you need it. |
| nitrogen_widget:
--- Quote from: cools on September 11, 2014, 04:26:14 am ---64bit. There are precisely zero of the larger CHD games I want to play, I don't even bother storing them. Even so, MAME doesn't load the whole CHD at once. 8GB wouldn't have broken the bank but it would've been unused, so money better spent on other parts ;) At the time the 4GB was £28 (special offer), the 8GB equivalent was £65. Name a game you'd like me to test and watch the RAM usage of. --- End quote --- I've a quad core amd i plan to test this on tonight in 64 bit but i'd love to know how the Gauntlet games run for you. also what version of mame your using. |
| cools:
It'll be GroovyMAME 154 64bit. I'll grab those and give them a try when I can - hopefully this weekend. |
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