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thetered:
I am trying to find a cheap CPU/Motherboard combo, what is the slowest speed that should play MAME fine, new games and all?

paigeoliver:
Loaded question, asked daily. There is not a computer that exists on earth that can actually run every game in mame. But the cheapest computer in the store is overkill for 99 percent of them. A 1ghz CPU is overkill for 98 percent of them.

thetered:
even a celeron or a duron i'm guessing?

paigeoliver:

--- Quote from: thetered on June 15, 2005, 12:55:12 am ---even a celeron or a duron i'm guessing?

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They don't make a CPU today that isn't overkill for 99 percent of the games in Mame. Out of the 4000 games there are only like 40 (1 freaking percent), that won't run full speed on a 1 GHZ cpu, of those 40 about 30 of them won't run full speed on anything, and the majority of the 40 require specialty analog controls that no one has anyway.

My personal suggestion is to buy a used 1ghz comp on ebay and channel those extra funds into a larger monitor or better controls.

IntruderAlert:
or decide how much you want to spend and try to get the most for your $$

I recently picked up a p4 2.4ghz system on ebay for $100 plus freight which was fine by me
I ended up spending around $120

just make sure to always check the freight costs before bidding as they are sometimes inflated ;)

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