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sportswizdan:

Just want to find out from the "experts" what would be better to run in my cab as far as power and running most games without loosing frames and what-not.  A Pentium 4, 1.8 GHZ with 1-gig of ram and a 64MB video card OR a Celeron D Processor, 2.53GHZ, 512MB ram and a onboard video card? Also, would there be a lot of difference between the two computers as far as there performance? Thanks in advance...

Dan

testicle187:

Either of those should work fine for pretty much any game on Mame.  I would use the Celeron because you probably won't need the extra ram the P4 has in it.  The video card doesn't matter much either, unless you are outputting to a TV or arcade monitor.  The P4 1.8ghz WILL be sluggish and choppy on Killer Instinct if you care about that game as much as I do.  Hope this helps.

arcade-mad:

Hi
 why dont you load mame onto both pc's and play your fav games on both systems press f11 in game to see frame rate then you will know which is the best pc for your needs.

Both the pc's you mention will run most games ok but remember even the most powerfull systems wont run the CHD files at anywere near full speed yet.

Hope this helps  ;D

TOK:

It was always my understanding that since the CPU is doing all the work, raw speed has the edge over everything else.  I have a 2ghz P4 in my MAME cab and it works great for everything except the stuff that won't run properly on any machine.

Either way, I think you're safe. It'd actually be interesting to see if the lack of cache on the Celeron would hurt it. Don't think it would, but I don't know for sure.



destructor:

Remember, Celerons are not for MAME. Intel Pentium use. Forgot about Celerons.

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