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Anubis_au:

--- Quote from: leapinlew on May 16, 2007, 11:25:59 pm ---Thats way more CPU than I've thrown into a cabinet...

As for your PSU worries... skip using the computers PSU for that power. Use a wallwart.

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What CPU do people have in their cabs? Has anyone else recently bought a new pc for a MAME box, and if so, what did they use? My P3 800MHz ran pretty much everything, although lagged in some later games...
Silver:
Personally I would go for something pretty beefy - it will last longer.

If I was buying now, I'd get the cheapest Core2Duo processor I could. They completely wipe the floor with P4's in Mame, and run a LOT cooler, and use less power.
Anubis_au:

--- Quote from: Silver on May 17, 2007, 01:09:42 am ---Personally I would go for something pretty beefy - it will last longer.

If I was buying now, I'd get the cheapest Core2Duo processor I could. They completely wipe the floor with P4's in Mame, and run a LOT cooler, and use less power.

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Is there a large performance difference between P4 and Core2Duo for running MAME? Is MAME even written to take advantage of the dual core?

And again, does MAME need the extra power to run effectively? My cab will be a simple 2-player, 6 or 7 buttons per player cab. No trackball. I doubt it would have any game newer than SF2 running... so isn't the core3duo overkill? Is even a 3.2GHz P4 overkill for this?
cowguy:
If your not gonna run anything newer than SF2 than thats overkill! The computer I put in my cab is a AMD Athlon XP 2200+ 266 MHz 256 KB Socket A Processor, 256mb ram, Radeon 9600 pro GPU, 80g hardrive, and a nothing special Biostar M7VIW-D Socket A Motherboard
Jouster:
What CAD program are you using?  I'm not yet finished with my first project...but am starting to think of plans for my second cab.  I ended up running into some snags on this one that I'd rather avoid on the next go around.  I thought a CAD version first might help, but I have had no luck figuring out AutoCAD.

Jouster
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