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RunDMC:
Building a mame cab, want to be able to play ALL games perfectly with no soud or frame skipping.  The pentium 4 offers more GHZ for less but I also hear that the Athlons run faster/better even if they are clocked at a slower speed.  any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!!!!!!! ;D

Lilwolf:
Athlon all the way.  Pents can't come close to the price / performance.. bet even that, the athlon 2.1ghz is faster then the pent 2.4 in buisness stuff (ie, int calculations) and that is whats used in emulation.

Remember that the 2.0 ghz athlon beats the pent 2.0 ghz in almost every test and costs about 1/2 as much and is optimized better for emulation....

Jonathan_the_Red:
I concur. "Intel inside" is just so 1990s. I used to be Intel all the way until I was lucky enough to win an Athlon XP at an AMD event and actually tried it out. Ever since then, all the systems I've built have been Athlons. My MAME cab has an Athlon XP 1700+ and runs everything (including the much-feared Police Trainer) at a silky smooth 60FPS. Total cost of system: just over $300.

Andrew Halford:
sorry for nitpicking but the Athlon xp 2000 is not 2ghz. it performance is equal to an old athlon at 2ghz but is only actually at 1.7ghz or something like that. Kind of helps to prove Lilwolf's point though ;)

TheManuel:
Anyone else care to share thier experiences with Athlon and Pentium?

Thanks.

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