Is a PIII 500Mhz enough to play Neo Geo games?

[Thurman]

Obviously a newbie here so hopefully you clicked on this thread to offer up some advice.  My head is hurting from all of the research I've been trying to do but I still don't have a good solution to my problem....

I'm in the very early stages of building a Mame cabinet.  Ideally, I'd like to get a cheap pc that can still play most games through the mid-90's.  I've got a chance to buy a Dell Dimension XPS T500 from my work for the low price of $35.  It's got a PIII 500Mhz with 256MB of RAM and an 8MB video card.  I've got a compiled Mame version 0.89 that I tried running on it and it choked on every game.  So obviously this computer can only handle an older version of Mame.  Before I go through all the trouble of compiling these older versions to see which works best, I figured I should just come in here and ask a few questions to get me on the right track.....

-- Do you think 500Mhz is enough to cover a Neo Geo game like Baseball Stars 2?  Super Dodge Ball?  Over Top?  What about something much newer like Metal Slug?  Will it even be enough to cover a late 80's game like Final Fight?

-- I'm planning on compiling Mame version 0.66 and version 0.37b16.  Are all of the games I listed supported in both of these versions?  Is there somewhere I can go to see the list of supported games for each version?

Thanks for any advice you can offer up.

[Goz]

Read the FAQ, it covers this.

500Mhz and Metal SLug in version 66 most likely not. Try bumping that up to about 800Mhz and you most likely wont drop frames

-Goz

[SirPoonga]

Nto with mame.  Try other neogeo emus like nebula or kawaks