Pentium D vs Anthlon 4400 for MAME

[MrMojoZ]

Okay found a system slower than yours to test on:

This is the slowest dual core I have access to, any particular game scenario you want me to check before I give it back to the customer?

[genesim]

As I said before I am new to the whole dual core processor when it comes to MAME.

I have a dual core lap top it is a dual 1.6 intel core I believe.   While it did very well, it is my main computer.

But not only am I new to dual core, but I am ultra new when it comes to Anthlon 64x2.    So alot of what I said was out of sheer frustration.

It turns out that the tearing effect had to do with my Plasma display.    More then likely just improper video drivers because when I went to my LCD display everything was fine.    Full speed on just about everything that I have thrown at it.    Alot of problems was also coming from the fact that I was using beta MAME which pretty much breaks MAME for Vista around 117u1.   

So far I am very impressed with 3D games and the Pentium D is history.    I am glad I stuck with it...and no restocking fee!

I appreciate those that helped/or tried to help.   thank you.    It got my mind thinking about every possibility.

[genesim]

On a side note...isn't it funny how I get full speed on an Emachines.

Which is worse, me jumping to conclusions about the CPU(though I admitted it could be configurations) or those that would trash a system as some kind of half assed attempt to diagnose a problem

Emachines are far from top of the line, but for a MAME computer it is filed under good enough.    The computers have always been good producers for me, and I trust the brand just like I do with my HP and Sony Vaio.

Good price with good processing power.