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| Malenko:
AMDs are generally less expensive and the chips are more tuned towards gaming. P4s are more costly and geared towards office type applications. My main PC is a P4 1.8 but my mame cab is an AMD thunderbird 850 OC'ed to ~933 |
| Nx87:
Well ok here goes an explanation. P4 can perform 2 operations per cycle. A cycle being 1 hz. A Tbird or Xp can perform 3 operations per cycle (this is slightly simplified). Thats why they label their chips with an XP rating rather than a Ghz speed. If you look at pricing, the AMD processors tend to be much cheaper. Looking at pricewatch, Xp 1800+ is going for $69 where as the P4 1.8 is going for $157. Take your pick. The AMD XP1800+ will still outperform the P4 1.8 in almost all areas even though it only runs at 1533Mhz. As for video cards, I use a GF4 Ti4200 with dual outs and vivo. It has excellent TV out (just as good as the ATIs) and is cheaper than the Radeon 8500. Its also much faster for gaming. Umm nm, i just noticed the 8500 is cheaper. :) Personal preference. I just upgraded to the Ti4200 and now an XP1800 that is oc'ed to XP2200 speed. Very cheap. |
| SNAAAKE:
only price difference.. And for ati cards,they work better then anything when you are using tv for mame. |
| SirPoonga:
Like everyone else said, AMDs in general (since AMD hired an ex DEC Alpha designer) are cheaper and perform better than the the comparable Pentium. I surrently run a PIII500 for mame. For my can, as soon as I get some money I plan on researching what the best price per performance chip is at the time. I need somethingdecent to run other emus and such. As for just mame, it all depnds on the games you play. But also you may find games that you think are cool but never played before. With changed that happen in each version of mame, performance always changes. That's why it is nice to keep around an older exe. There are some good games to test mame out. MK2 and 3 are good for sound. NeoGeo Super Dodge ball is agreat for graphics. http://www.mame.dk/gameinfo/sdodgeb/ |
| Arcade Guru:
Well thanks for all the answers guys!, I guess I will be checking out ebay to see which system I will be buying next week ;) The only thing I can't decide, and maybe you guys seen this, I have a GeForce3 Ti 200 with 128megs DDR, the card works great in windows But, for games like Mame and DAOC that flip the screen and seem like they go into some sort of "Dos" mode for the graphics, this card sucks, it shakes like crazy, I have'nt had any help anyplace with it, even when the computer is booting up and all the system messages are being displayed, the screen is shaking back and forth like +/- 1/8" It's really annoying, and you just cannot play any mame games, hmmmm... let me try right now to play a game in a window and see how it looks.....nah it's just as slow in a window, I really want to play MK2 and Rampage World Tour , but they are so lagged and slow, the chick that talks in Rampage Sutters when she talks. The main Question will the new AMD Proccessor and this video card still have the same preformance?, or will it be much better since the AMD will be faster than mine current CPU's?, I really don't want to spend another $80 to $200 for a video card if I already have this one. Thanks again for any thoughts, Lasareath P.S. I also have a Geforce 2 with 64megs that I'm not using, I guess I can allways test out with this GeForce 2 and if it's slow I'll get a newer faster card. --- Quote from: SirPoonga on September 21, 2002, 03:59:58 pm --- Like everyone else said, AMDs in general (since AMD hired an ex DEC Alpha designer) are cheaper and perform better than the the comparable Pentium. I surrently run a PIII500 for mame. For my can, as soon as I get some money I plan on researching what the best price per performance chip is at the time. I need somethingdecent to run other emus and such. As for just mame, it all depnds on the games you play. But also you may find games that you think are cool but never played before. With changed that happen in each version of mame, performance always changes. That's why it is nice to keep around an older exe. There are some good games to test mame out. MK2 and 3 are good for sound. NeoGeo Super Dodge ball is agreat for graphics. http://www.mame.dk/gameinfo/sdodgeb/ --- End quote --- |
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