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Processor Upgrade?
TopJimmyCooks:
Peeps, PC's are so cheap these days why mess with super old cpus/sockets/mobos? I just built a $350 pc that runs everything in mame plus demul, etc. no problem. New Mobo/I3 3.6ghz, 4g ram, $100 nvidia vid card/windows 7.
Deliver pizzas or something for 2 weekends and you'll have your $300. It will save a lot of aggro wondering what will/won't work.
[of course, if you deliver pizza's your first $300 needs to be reserved for getting a handgun. so maybe not the best advice :( ]
ark_ader:
--- Quote from: lilshawn on September 17, 2013, 11:10:14 am ---don't forget there is different flavors of the P4 processor. the "regular" and the "HT" version. you will see a little boost with the hyper threaded version vs a same speed "regular" version.
i think your real issue here is the slow as all hell DDR1 memory. all things being equal. you should be able to scoop a new(ish) board with ddr2 or even ddr3 for next to nothing now. with a ram speed increase from about 1200 MB/s for DDR1, up to 3200 and 6400MB/s respectively
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Also don't ignore Linux platforms for Mame. You will get more out of legacy kit than Windows.
Things are getting better on the linux drivers and graphics compatibility front also.
404:
--- Quote from: lilshawn on September 17, 2013, 11:10:14 am ---don't forget there is different flavors of the P4 processor. the "regular" and the "HT" version. you will see a little boost with the hyper threaded version vs a same speed "regular" version.
i think your real issue here is the slow as all hell DDR1 memory. all things being equal. you should be able to scoop a new(ish) board with ddr2 or even ddr3 for next to nothing now. with a ram speed increase from about 1200 MB/s for DDR1, up to 3200 and 6400MB/s respectively
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Yep, lilshawn has a point. DDR1 is your major bottle neck here imo.
I'm probably the only idiot around here that has no working cab but for the "lolz" i have experimented quite a bit with different rigs for mame and how well they benchmark. Modern day builds of mame on both single channel and ddr1 ram don't really run well at all from what i have gathered. IMO, the rig mentioned in the first post is better suited for mame 0.106 or below.
--- Quote from: TopJimmyCooks on September 17, 2013, 11:37:29 am ---Peeps, PC's are so cheap these days why mess with super old cpus/sockets/mobos? I just built a $350 pc that runs everything in mame plus demul, etc. no problem. New Mobo/I3 3.6ghz, 4g ram, $100 nvidia vid card/windows 7.
Deliver pizzas or something for 2 weekends and you'll have your $300. It will save a lot of aggro wondering what will/won't work.
[of course, if you deliver pizza's your first $300 needs to be reserved for getting a handgun. so maybe not the best advice :( ]
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You can still get a stable second hand ddr2 or even entry level ddr3 rig for 1/3 that price or even less if you really look around. That price normally includes, hdd, psu, board, cpu, ram case and OS. Hard to ignore that, especially when you are on a budget.
TopJimmyCooks:
--- Quote from: 404 on September 17, 2013, 01:15:06 pm --- . . . especially when you are on a budget.
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guess that;s what I'm saying. readjust the budget. I have spent $30 buying a sufficient mame rig pc in the past, with the sacrifice that entails. Now I'm ready to spend $300 and do it right and that's what I recommend. I used to make $300 a weekend DJ'ing sometimes back in the day.
If you have to think hard about whether a $30 to $300 piece of equipment will do what you need it to do, I urge you to consider upgrading. it's not an $8000 option for possibly better carbon fiber brake discs on your porsche, it's the basic engine guts of your gaming toy. Either afford it or don't. That's all. I always sacrifice appearance for function and recommend you get the function functional first. A hurtin' pc will put a hurtin' on your fun sooner or later if you wish to play more recent games. if you want to go 106 or earlier and play classics', no problem.
DeLuSioNal29:
--- Quote from: ramos8414 on September 16, 2013, 07:34:40 pm ---What version of mame do you have?
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Best question of this entire thread IMHO. If you are running a recent version of MAME then you need a heftier processor. The opposite is true as well.
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