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moonchilddave:

I went with the ECS GF8200 motherboard and the AMD Phenom II x2 500 Black Edition... Yeehaw!!!!  Just got it all set up and running and ALL my games now run 100% / no skip with scanlines enabled under MAME .133 compiled with the hiscore patch.  I did notice the northbridge does tend to get a little hot so I ordered and installed a Thermaltake Extreme Spirit II CL-C0034 Copper Fan & Heatsink.  The temp went from 66C at idle to 44C.  Well, once I noticed people saying to be sure to take off the CLEAR plastic on the bottom of the copper that was easily missed and not described anywhere in the instructions.

Thanks all for the advice and input!!!  I'm a very happy camper now...  Beats the hell out of trying to figure out which version of mame a certain game runs best in on old hardware.

Beretta:

congrats, im glad it worked out for you.

it's nice to beable to run every thing in one version i agree  :cheers:

mytymaus007:

congrats on your new PC.  Just wondering if you can get surf planet running 100%. Im not sure what the problem is on my side but it doesnt work, please let me know if it works with your new pc

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