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4Ghz Core 2 Duo vs M.A.M.E. 0.120 (benchmark results)
Red:
Hopefully then it will be set to Default on later versions.
ozzi22:
how does using one of these builds in a frontend affect the bech results? examples mala or game ex
taz-nz:
--- Quote from: Red on November 15, 2007, 10:38:44 am ---Hopefully then it will be set to Default on later versions.
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I think you'll find in hurts performance on single core processors and thus is defaultly off, that doesn't mean someone couldn't have mame turn it on automatically if a multi-core processors was detected, it probably wouldn't be that hard to do since Mame already does this for Arron's software SLI code.
--- Quote from: ozzi22 on November 17, 2007, 07:24:04 pm ---how does using one of these builds in a frontend affect the bech results? examples mala or game ex
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Frontends are just ROM launchers, they take up very little system resources, and are basically inactive while a ROM is being emulated, so I wouldn't expect to see any noticeably difference. There are dozens of others tasks running the background on average windows PC, and most of them have little to no effect on MAMEs performance, my Antivirus on the other hand has a bad habit of kicking in while I'm trying to benchmark ROMs, that is very noticeable.
I would like to see how a 64bit version of SDLMAME benchmarked, running on a 64bit version of Linux, it would be interest to see if Windows resource usage has any negative effect MAMEs performance. I'm looking into this currently, but as soon as you say linux everything get 10x more complex than it needs to be, so there probably will not be results on this one until atleast the next stable build of MAME is released.
Looks like I might have to get a E8500 after all in the new year, below are overclocking results with on pre-production sample, air cooler with a less than fantastic Thermal Take V1 heatsink (lot of room to improve there)
497X9.5=>4722Mhz on air cooler
For full details jump over to http://forums.tweaktown.com/showthread.php?t=25544
Wish I had that CPU to play with.
ozzi22:
Any new bench results with mame 121?
taz-nz:
--- Quote from: ozzi22 on November 22, 2007, 10:38:34 am ---Any new bench results with mame 121?
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Yeah will be up tomorrow, I'll post a full set once I re-run them with 0.120u1, vegas.c was broken in 0.120 :cry:.
But you can see my 0.120 less gauntleg, gauntdl, tenthdeg over at http://benchmark.mameworld.net/ where I currently hold the title of "speed king" >:D just click on "Benchmark Database", and then select "0.121" under "MAME Build", then hit "Show me the list" this will give you my lastest results.
Update:
Had some PC issues this weekend lots of random lockups, BSODs and restarts, figured it was a heat or stablility issue with the overclocking, wasted a day trying to fix a problem that wasn't there :banghead:, turned out it was my DVD-Writer on it's way out :hissy: unplugged it and all was OK again but then I had to undo everything from the previous day, so no benchmarks until tommorow at the earliest, sorry.