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u_rebelscum:


--- Quote from: mlalena on October 28, 2009, 07:32:19 pm ---For MAME, the next best thing after the Core 2 Duo is the Core i7. While these are faster, they are MUCH more expensive. The chips are $500, the motherboards start at $250, they use triple channel RAM... Intel is just now coming out with the lower end i5 & i3 chips which will eventually phase out the Core 2 line by the end of 2010.

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Just small correction:
Core i7 9xx series is triple channel,
Core i7 8xx & Core i5 are double channel. 
Xeons based on the i7 9xx sersies can do either triple or double channel (or if you eff up the memory stick matching, single or a mix of double and single).

And yes, the triple change MBs run in the $200 range, but the double channel i5/i7 8xx MBs are cheaper (betwween $100 & $200).


I'm looking at getting the i7 860 as a Chrismas present to myself, ATM.  Even if it runs mame about the same speed as a Core 2 @ same Hz (based on one poster's i7 920 benchmarks), the i5/i7 will compile faster, the new i7 8xx/i5 7xx have better "turbo" than the i7 9xx.

mlalena:

Sorry, didn't mean to imply that the i5 was also triple channel.

While I wont bother going i7 for MAME until there are much newer games that demand it (latest Golden Tee would be cool), I would love to have one for work - also for the faster compile times.

u_rebelscum:


--- Quote from: mlalena on October 28, 2009, 07:32:19 pm ---the Core i7 ... use triple channel RAM...
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--- Quote from: mlalena on October 29, 2009, 07:26:05 pm ---Sorry, didn't mean to imply that the i5 was also triple channel.
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Err, I was trying to say that some i7's are not triple channel also, and share the same (cheaper) MBs as i5s.

Expressline99:

Anyone have some input on which motherboard to use with c2d 4ghz setup? Was thinking a Asus P5Q version.



J.Max:


--- Quote from: isucamper on October 27, 2009, 12:20:39 pm ---Tomorrow, this thread will officially be 2 years old.  Am I to believe that getting a core 2 duo and overclocking it to 4Ghz is still the only way to get max performance in MAME?  Has there been no advance in processor technology in the last 2 years for running a nearly single threaded application like MAME?

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Well, there's the E8500 and E8600...

Anyone tried OCing an E8600?  Just wondering if it can get past 4 Ghz, since it starts at 3.33 anyway.

EDIT: This topic should really be stickied.  It seems to come up a lot.

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