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| kahlid74:
All really depends on what you feel comfertable with. Both systems work great, and both are reliable builds. Some older games have known problems with AMD systems. I know Shadow Run has failed on both AMD systems I own. I bought a 50 dollar Asus board with a Athlon 2500+XP. It works perfect. If you spend 100 or even 150 to 200 on the Motherboard it will last a lot longer, but remeber, this is an Arcade machine. If you have the money, go for it. But if money is of concern, get something you trust that has good online reviews and a warranty. You should be set. For the Arcade machine, AMD is cool, but for my main gaming machine, I go with nothing but Intel. The wide varietey of Hardware and Software I use on my main machine requires full inter-operability, AMD just is not at that point yet. |
| Buddabing:
--- Quote from: Gradius on May 19, 2004, 03:59:55 pm ---Pentium 4 2.8 (800) or Ahtlon XP 3000 (333), for use only with MAME and ArcadeVGA. I have seen some pages with benchmarks, but not comparing these two cpus in particular. I wonder which one will get more fps with MAME. Please help me decide. --- End quote --- For price to performance, AMD is the clear winner, and has been for quite some time, ever since the Thunderbird Athlons came out. I have two dead motherboards, one AMD and one Intel, so reliability has been roughly equal for me. I glanced at pricewatch. The price for a P4 2.8 was $160, and the XP3000 was $114. I didn't price motherboards, but Socket A motherboards are typically less cheaper and are just as full-featured. Personally, I would go with choice C, the Mobile Athlon 2500. They run with less voltage and thus are cooler. Heat can be a problem in an enclosed space like a cabinet. If you are into overclocking, these processors are great since they are multiplier unlocked. Mobile Athlons were $94 on pricewatch. Yet another choice would be to get an inexpensive motherboard/processor combo on Ebay. These combos are pretty cheap, I didn't price any but I'm guessing $120 or so. Get a motherboard that has everything except video, since you're going to use an ArcadeVGA. |
| Edgedamage:
I got a cheapo ECS-L7VMM3 MB with pro2800 cpu it has onboard sound and vid and lan. There is no way I would use this board for a AVI to MPEG grinder. But this board has played all mame games but the midway fighters start dropping frames. Also it has played every visual/pinmame table that I threw at it. It is my future mame cabinet MB. And all this goodness for $120.00 |
| DaveJ-UK:
Woa I didnt mean to start all this Intel Vs. AMD flaming! I've worked building and repairing PCs for just over two years now. We actually have very few CPU's fail (both AMD and Intel), but when we do it is almost always AMDs. There was one occasion where a guy brought in an Athlon system which was just hanging randomly. I spent AGES fidling, reinstalled Windows, reseated CPU and memory, etc. We happened to have another Athlon in and I popped that in there. Left it over night and it was fine. A couple of weeks later the same guy brought in another identical system with the same problem. Again, swapped the CPU and it was fine. We build about a dozen systems a week, mostly for small - medium business' and have only once in the two years I've been there had anything Intel broken(we only use Intel boards + CPU's) and that was a mobo damaged in transit. Personally, I have only ever owned one AMD chip (which worked perfectly well - sold it still working) but I have never had an Intel chip fail. I wasn't aware that AMD did offer a 3yr warranty; do they have 1yr on OEM like Intel? How can you call me stupid and then go on to say you have four broken mobo's in your closet? :D I think it is well worth getting a P4 for the sake of a few $. The P4 hs/fan is the best retail to be bundled with any CPU. |
| Sylentwulf:
hs/fan combo's are pretty much worthless due to the heatsink compounds they use and the low price of a really GOOD heatsink/fan combo (My thermaltake spark 7 with temp controlled fan was around $25 I believe, plus $5 for a tube of arctic ceramique that will last forever) |
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