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Which CPU would you get?
Yander:
I wold get the AMD chip.
--- Quote ---Pay the extra few $ for an Intel chip. It will last ten times longer and you'll get a 3yr warranty if you buy new.
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That is crazy talk. Infact intel is currently using some of AMD's techonolgy for 64 bit proccesers and intel has currently hit a wall with some of their proccesers. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/173750_intelchips18.html
Minwah:
I like both, have an Athlon in this machine and P4 in my cab. I have a soft spot for AMD but I went for P4 in my cab as I believe they tend to run cooler, ie less cooling required.
There were some benchmarks posted somewhere recently, which showed each manufacturer 'winning' for differing games in MAME (sorry don't have the link :( )
rchadd:
Go AMD 2x00+ and overclock
maraxle:
Personally, if the price is comparable, I'd use an Intel chip when putting it in a cabinet, simply because I don't want to invest in giant heatsinks or extra fans. You can fry an egg on an AMD!
paigeoliver:
Wow, a lot of comments.
First off, I have some decade old AMD hardware that is STILL kicking it.
Secondly, I have every dead motherboard/processor I have sitting in my closet (4 of them at last count) is Intel hardware.
Third off, overclocking the computer used in your Mame cabinet is silliness. The fact is this, once that Mame cabinet is DONE, then it might very well be around for 10 or 20 years, and there is no reason to do anything that would accelerate the death of the hardware, especially since it is just silliness, since Mame games basically fall into three categorys, stuff that will run on a 700 mhz pc (basically everything), stuff that won't run full speed on anything (50 games or so), and stuff that isn't properly emulated which must somehow be mentioned (I am not sure why, ask Howard Casto).
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