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Jakobud:
I'm building a new Mame cabinet for a friend and I'm looking through Newegg trying to figure out what I need.  He really just wants to play classics on the cabinet.  Maybe some newer games like up to 1995 era like maybe UMK3 or something like that.  But probably not any 3D games like Virtua Fighter and stuff like that.  

How fast of a processor and motherboard do I really need these days?

Does anyone have benchmark tests or experience with Mame running on Intel Atom mini-itx motherboards?

Rusty Shackelford:
3Ghz for the same reason you stated, the best of both worlds

SailorSat:
Pentium Dual-Core E6500 (2,93 GHz), 2GB DDR2-800 RAM, some ASRock board based on i965 chipset, a ATI Radeon HD4350 (passive!) and some harddisk (depends on how many capacity you need).

This combo is pretty cheap, quiet (only two fans, one on the cpu, and one inside the power supply) and should be fast enough for pretty much every classic out there.

Those Atom based stuff is fast enough for the classics, however I wouldn't go that way as you never know what comes up next in terms of emulation.

Epyx:
E5200 2.5ghz running at 3.5ghz to get Starblade running at 100% (my personal benchmark for MAME must have FPS).
WG D9800 27" Multi Sync Arcade Monitor
ArcadeVGA (soon upgrade to a modern STIV capable version or other card using Soft 15khz)

I play quite a few consoles and PC games on the cab so like a fast Processor but for MAME my cutoff for the last 2 years has been 100% for Starblade.

mphuie:
As cheap as possible.  Just picked up a single core AMD Sempron @ 2.7ghz w/ motherboard for $25 at Fry's last week. 

http://www.frys-electronics-ads.com/ads/2010/03/26/47319/AMD-Energy-Efficient-Sempron-140-Processor-BioStar-MCP6P-M2-Motherboard

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