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| alank2:
Hi, I am more of classic arcade guy so I ran mspacman, zaxxon, asteroid, dkong, etc. and the Atom 330 runs them all great. I was a bit nervous with asteroid/dkong because of the discrete sound, but it ran asteroid at about 140%. Considering that my new core2 notebook (2.533/1066fsb/6mL2) can only do 302%, I really thought this was pretty good. I don't think anyone will have an issue running older games on this board and an Atom 230 would be 97% as good. When I enable -multithreading it improves the speed maybe 3%. MK2 was my heavier processor game to test and the Atom can almost run it. I get about 95% speed with it. I read on a site how x64 MAME can show improvements as much as 20% or 30%, but I sure didn't see them on this platform. I installed the x64 XP and Intel drivers and tried out MK2 on it and only gained about 2%, so 97%. If you are looking for a speed demon, I don't think you will be happy with this board, but for playing most older games, I bet it will do fine. It was $80 for the board and CPU. You can get the Atom 230 (single core) version for $65. I paid the extra for the s-video connector this particular 330 board also has, but an extra core is nice too even though MAME doesn't make much use of it! Good luck, Alan |
| Ummon:
--- Quote from: alank2 on July 09, 2009, 09:55:20 pm --- If you are looking for a speed demon, I don't think you will be happy with this board, but for playing most older games, I bet it will do fine. It was $80 for the board and CPU. You can get the Atom 230 (single core) version for $65. I paid the extra for the s-video connector this particular 330 board also has, but an extra core is nice too even though MAME doesn't make much use of it! Good luck, Alan --- End quote --- I think there was a dedicated Atom thread, but whatever. The real question is, what version of mame are you using? |
| alank2:
--- Quote from: Ummon on July 11, 2009, 04:46:25 pm ---I think there was a dedicated Atom thread, but whatever. The real question is, what version of mame are you using? --- End quote --- Please post a link to this Atom thread; I didn't see it and would like to read it. I am using MAME 132u3. Thanks, Alan |
| SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: BORIStheBLADE on June 07, 2009, 10:12:59 am ---Found the one with the dual core. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813500030 --- End quote --- "deactivated" :( |
| alank2:
Hi, They have plenty more atom boards: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010200446%201370044872&bop=And&ActiveSearchResult=True&Order=PRICE Good luck, Alan |
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