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molton:
A newer fighting game by Capcom, Streer Fighter X Tekken runs at 60 FPS on my AMD AM2 dual core 2.1 GHz with my fanless low profile AMD Radeon HD 5450 I got for $35, the AM3 will work great, save yourself some money and go that route.

(motion blur had to be turned off, but all other effects on and quality set to high, 1360x768 graphics) 

It also runs future pinball very well at 1920x1080 with all graphics way up, thats why i bought it 

Tonyjambo:
So i had a very similar question recently - my original pc ( a 2.4ghz pentium 4 , prescott with 768Mb ram) finally died and i was looking at replacements.  i finaly settled on a core i3 and ended up buying a core i5 , never go to micro center on a sunday :)

The reason  i went with the i3 choice was upgradeability in future, the socket used by the i series seems here to stay and in a few years i can see a super fast i7 up for grabs , also the i series integrated graphics are pretty decent especially for mame.  Total cost was about 120 more than my original plan (AMD fx4100 or AMD A6)  but i feel im in a much better place to run other emus as well as the super intensive mame games.

fluentd:
Looks like the new line of processors are out.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113280&nm_mc=EMC-IGNEFL100212&cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL100212-_-EMC-100212-Index-_-ProcessorsDesktops-_-19113280-L0E

and

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113281&nm_mc=EMC-IGNEFL100212&cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL100212-_-EMC-100212-Index-_-ProcessorsDesktops-_-19113281-L0F

Looks pretty nice 3.6 and 3.8 ghz

Diet_Pepsi:

--- Quote from: fluentd on October 02, 2012, 11:04:51 am ---Looks like the new line of processors are out.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113280&nm_mc=EMC-IGNEFL100212&cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL100212-_-EMC-100212-Index-_-ProcessorsDesktops-_-19113280-L0E

and

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113281&nm_mc=EMC-IGNEFL100212&cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL100212-_-EMC-100212-Index-_-ProcessorsDesktops-_-19113281-L0F

Looks pretty nice 3.6 and 3.8 ghz

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Don't be fooled by the higher clock speed.  The previous generation of cores is still faster on a clock-for-clock, core-for-core basis.  Just make sure that you have a list of the specific games and emulators that you will want to run on your system.  You can then tailor the CPU/(GPU?) to what you want to run.  It is still possible that an AMD APU will accomplish what you want -- just make sure of this before you purchase.


dholcombe:
I was actually just coming to see if you'd considered the AMD A10.

Clock for Clock it's faster than an AMD FX-8150. That is a 3.8 Ghz a10 is faster than a 3.8ghz fx-8150 per core.

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