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Celeron D 345 3.06Ghz as a MAME Brain?
Havok:
Yeah - I'm still leary of getting Celeron too. Of course, I'm an AMD fanboy...
;D
cdbrown:
Nearly double the price is a leap for most people. Do you get nearly double the processing power by going up to the P4?
Jeffy:
I have been an AMD guy forever, and I never buy Intel--buy this combo came up cheap on a web site and I thought I would glean the knowledge from my fellow mamed retrogamers.
I feel like the Celerons are just plain gutless, but I have never owned one. I have had good luck with AMD in the past and the price point is usually too good to miss.
BTW that combo was $150.
Jeffy
MPTech:
I have a P$ (2.4g) that I built 4 years ago and I like it. Around Christmas, I built an AMD for my son and a Celeron 3.06 as my MAME machine (sounds similar to what you are doing).
My suggestion is, if you can find a comparably priced AMD, go that route. The Celeron will work, but it is my least favorite.
You can find some really good bundles for a name-brand mobo and AMD cpu.