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| elvis:
--- Quote from: Todd H on January 13, 2005, 07:09:58 am ---I just purchased a motherboard/AMD Duron 1.6 ghz combo from Outpost.com for $39 and it plays everything up to the Midway games like Mortal Kombat and NBA Jam full speed with no dropped frames. So yes an AMD Duron will perform well with MAME as long as you're not planning on running the latest CHD's. --- End quote --- Try a few of the STV games and it'll struggle. Ditto for some of the Psikyo games. Compare that to a AthlonXP 2000+ which is almost the same clockspeed as a duron 1.6 but with 4 times the cache, and it'll perform 50% better in the above. With modern processors, more L2 cache is a god-send. However for under $50, that's steal. And again, not bad if newer games aren't your thing. |
| Dexter:
--- Quote from: SOAPboy on January 13, 2005, 07:25:34 am ---id go ahead and have to say DONT bother overclocking it.. Why you ask? because, the guy had to ask about which one to buy, this leads me to beleive its not in his best interest to start jacking with fsb settings.. --- End quote --- Thats why I pointed him to the overclockers board. I was a noob to overclocking but one of the members gave me step by step instructions. It is worth pointing out though, that unless you need an increase in speed for a particular app or game, then just run at stock speed. My machine only gets overclocked if I'm working on a track thats loading up the CPU heavily. Must say, a P4 2.8c overclocked is still one hell of a CPU for the price |
| Layer01:
thanks for the replies guys, and just in time, this saturday is the computer fair here so hopefully armed with a better knowledge of what mame will and wont like in cpu's i hope to pick up my mobo and cpu. ;D as for overclocking well i think i'll pass, simply because i havnt the time to toy arround learning the ins and outs, its funny i'm sounding older by the minute, a few years ago i was lapping up all the info i could get on pc's in regards to 3D animation, so if i were to go out and build a workstation now i wouldnt think twice, but now when it comes to emulation i just cant be stuffed reading countless reviews and digging through sites trying to find nuggets of info anymore (the whole time thing). so i cant say this enough, thank you for saving me some time and getting my AMD knowledge back on track ;D ;D ;D ;D oh and Flinkly your not comeing off mean at all, in fact i apreciate your honesty, what you say is true, but even though i cant give you exact justifications on what cpu speed i need and why, i know i need it (sorta hard to explain without getting long winded)....lol but time will tell ;) so cheers guys 8) |
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