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Shieldwolf:

As emulators are always changing,Mame included. I'm  updating my cab and I wanted to know what would be a good base line to build off of as far as updating my pc.

jban4us:

I'm using a couple of these:







oops, am I too much of a noob to be a jerk?

Depends on what you want to run of course. There is a good thread right now showing benchmarks of newer chd games that are playable by an overclocked core 2 duo (4ghz I believe, thread here: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=72776.240). Of course if you don't want to play newer 3D games then you can go lower than that. This is a pretty broad question. I see a lot of guys using P4 era computers; they are cheap and will run almost any mame game that isn't 3D.

tafische:

Are you running early/classic games or later games?  I run only early games and just about everything but Gorf seems to run on a 500 Mhz / Dos / ArcadeOS.  Later games all seem to run fine on a 1 Ghz for me, but again - personal preference based on what you run.

Mauzy:


--- Quote from: jban4us on July 15, 2008, 10:35:13 pm ---

oops, am I too much of a noob to be a jerk?


--- End quote ---

Nah. I was being a jerk within 5 posts. Just watch who you're a jerk to.


I run classics (pac man, Galaga, etc) fine on an old iMac G3 with a 450 mhz processor. I can run almost all working 2D games on an AMD Sempron 2.2 ghz processor with an outdated nvidia geforce 5500. also runs a few 3d like Killer Instinct

Shieldwolf:

jban4us, You're not a jerk. It's just that picture is exactly what I was using 4 years ago!
 I'm running lot of later games and other console emulators. I did see the article about  dual core which was  helpful, but seemed to be more game specific than just general.

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