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Help me buy a good MAME system
caffinefiend:
i have a 2.2 ghz celeron with 300 some megs of ram, 20 or 40 gb hd i forget, but i can fit a complete mame rom set for .69 along with mamewah and nes, sega, snes, genesis, tg16 full rom sets and emulators, i also have joypads that light up (the retrocons hooked to it and a steering wheel) anyway
2.2 ghz with the 300 some megs of ram runs everything, unlcuing the nba jam, mortal kombat (both suck anyway) and marvel vs capcom, metal slug, samsho5, and some sutff like that all full speed no frameskip... you should be just fine with a 2 ghz celeron pick up a full system on ebay for like 100 bucks
IntruderAlert:
Thanks for the info dude
I was worried about going with celeron or sempron
do you ever get any glitches or lags or anything with the CHD games at all?
caffinefiend:
chd is the only games i don't play, so i woulnd't know
it runs every other game full speed quick loading as well
elvis:
Try these links for more info:
http://benchmark.mameworld.net/
http://www.classicgaming.com/mame32qa/bench.htm
testicle187:
The Athlon 64s are not a big jump over regular Athlons or Semprons for that matter in terms of speed with Mame. My last MAME Cab had MSI Neo2 Platinum, Athlon64 3200+, 1 gig Corsair PC3200 value, and an ATI Radeon 9600 Pro 256meg AGP graphics card. It was hardly (if any) faster on any games than my Athlon XP 2700+ system with 512 meg PC-2100 ram.
On a side note, hardly any CHD games are going to be playable on any system you can currently buy. Killer Instinct 1 and 2 ran fine on my Athlon XP 2100+ system and basically the same on my Athlon 64s. You will not be able to play games like Cruisin USA anytime soon on anything.
I would go with a Sempron 2600+ from newegg as your processor and an ASRock motherboard (if you insist on cheaping out a little :) ). Like others said, Corsair Value ram and Kingston Value Ram is really cheap and WILL save you headaches found with cheap ram.
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