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Lex_the_Impailer:

Currently I am using old Duron 1.0 Ghz rig, 512 megs ram, Win XP to run my mame.  Works reasonable well for the most part.

Am looking at snagging a Intel  2.0 Ghz dual core, 2 gigs ram (will be using Win Xp as well).  Can I expect to see improvements?  Thanks folks.



testicle187:

I believe you will see quite a big difference.  Raw processing power is important and newer builds of MAME can take advantage of multiprocessors.  2 Gigs of ram and a dual 2.0 cores will run about anything feasibly possible to run.

***EDIT...  Did not see where you mentioned for MAME.

Lex_the_Impailer:


--- Quote from: testicle187 on August 28, 2008, 12:21:29 pm ---I believe you will see quite a big difference, especially in multitasking.  Duron processors are like Celerons and they really hold a system back with their lack of cache.  2 Gigs of ram and a dual 2.0 cores will be more than enough for almost anything you could want to use it for right now.

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Thanks...never know with mame what will improve things.  Figured it would, it's an old computer, pretty much Frankensteined together...

Turnarcades:

Good that you didn't ask for specific game benchmarks, as like previously mentioned MAME results are unpredictable. We use 1Ghz P3's which perform brilliantly on all but later, polygonal games. I've done plenty of benchmarking on lower range PC's and can assure you you will see an improvement on not only arcade, but also N64, 32X, Mega CD and other 'medium demand' emus too.

Lex_the_Impailer:


--- Quote from: Turnarcades on August 28, 2008, 12:29:08 pm ---Good that you didn't ask for specific game benchmarks, as like previously mentioned MAME results are unpredictable. We use 1Ghz P3's which perform brilliantly on all but later, polygonal games. I've done plenty of benchmarking on lower range PC's and can assure you you will see an improvement on not only arcade, but also N64, 32X, Mega CD and other 'medium demand' emus too.

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generally the games ru perfect, but games like metal slug for example, when there is lots of action, slows down a fair bit.  Benchmarks don''t mean much to me, I want to see the actual difference:D

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