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Amd 6 core VS i5 (Yea I know Mame only uses 2 cores)

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tommyinajar:
This combo doesn't look too bad. $249 Should work good for the price-

1x    BIOSTAR TA990FXE AM3+ AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
1x    AMD FX-6100 Zambezi 3.3GHz Socket AM3+ 95W Six-Core Desktop Processor FD6100WMGUSBX

Mobo got good reviews

 http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.815414

Readen:
how did the fx perform on tekken tag i want to now- cus i want to build a pc for mame whit a fx 4100 3.6 Ghz

paigeoliver:
Honestly it doesn't make much sense to overclock anything anymore.  Small amounts of overclocking will be unnoticeable outside of a benchmark and large amounts of overclocking require almost as much money in extra cooling gear as they save (and it puts everything at risk).

Yes, overclocking generates more heat and more heat means a higher chance of hardware failure due to heat.

Even if you did overclock it is very unlikely that it would even move a single emulation title that you actually cared about out of the realm of unplayable into the realm of playable.



--- Quote from: JoeB on February 05, 2012, 08:38:00 am ---general question:  If someone is going to put a dedicated PC inside a real arcade machine, does it make sense to overclock it? Doesn't overclocking generate more heat?  And unlike a PC that sits on top of your PC, isn't the inside of an arcade machine create a lot less air flow and higher chances for hardware failure due to heat?

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Endprodukt:
Is mame STILL using only 2 cores?

brad808:

--- Quote from: paigeoliver on October 18, 2012, 05:02:37 pm ---Honestly it doesn't make much sense to overclock anything anymore.  Small amounts of overclocking will be unnoticeable outside of a benchmark and large amounts of overclocking require almost as much money in extra cooling gear as they save (and it puts everything at risk).

Yes, overclocking generates more heat and more heat means a higher chance of hardware failure due to heat.

Even if you did overclock it is very unlikely that it would even move a single emulation title that you actually cared about out of the realm of unplayable into the realm of playable.


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I have to dissagree with all of this minus the part about overclocking generating more heat. All of my cabs are overclocked and can run for 48 hours + with all cores being utilized 100% and still run at temperatures within the heat specifications of each cpu. The most I would personally leave my cabinets on would be overnight after a drunken party so I have no fear about overheating considering I could technically leave them on 24/7 without problems. My driving cabinet is a dual core overclocked from 2.4ghz  to 3 ghz (making the cruisn games playable, as well as model 3 emulator which is cpu heavy and wasn't running full speed) on stock fan simply by changing a few specs in bios and running some overnight benchmarks. No extra money required and probably collectively 2 hours spent at the machine tweaking settings in between benchmark runs.

For my other overclocks all I have purchased is cpu fans. Most of the time you can get a top end cpu fan for around $30 which will allow for huge heat reduction (more overclock room). In my case I have a $70-80 cpu and spending a few bucks on a cpu fan, and again probably 2 hours tweaking, I was able to make maybe 15-20 high quality games that I wanted to play work 100% like nfl blitz, the new cave sh3 shmups (6 or 7 awesome new games), mr driller, tekken tag/ tekken 3, mace: the dark age, soul calibur, and I'm sure others that are slipping my mind right now.

In my eyes when you see how easy it is and how little it actually takes it makes no sense not to do it. When you can have a cpu that cost $75 perform at the exact same specifications as a cpu that cost $150 just by changing a couple of settings and running some benchmarks overnight. As long as you do it properly you aren't pushing your cpu to any thing it isn't capable you are simply manually entering the correct values for that particular cpu to operate at its highest potential. Its lazy not to do it!!!! :P

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