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ahofle:
I agree with holdennut, going from 256 Meg to 512Meg RAM didn't make a difference in MAME speed for me.

eccs19:
Ram will not make that much of a difference on how fast an application will run, but it will make a difference on how fast the application opens.  With Mame, I don't expect that you would see that much of a difference with RAM as the program itself it not that large, but Windows itself will start up a hell of a lot faster with more ram, and therefore less waiting around till mame is actually up and running from the time you turn the computer on. My Bartop take forever for Windows 2000 to start up, and I know it's because of the lack of ram.  Once I get ---my bottom--- in gear and get more, then I will be happy.

leapinlew:
A windows XP machine that is being dedicated to MAME will only need around 100mb of ram to run after it's properly configured (turn off unneeded services). That leaves you more then enough memory to run mame and a frontend like mamewah or mala.

If you want to run office, antivirus, and multitask between various programs - 256mb isn't enough, but for MAME use - you'll be fine.

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: jfh2112 on October 22, 2006, 11:54:18 pm ---Faster processor always wins in regards to MAME.

--- End quote ---

Yes yes.  Emulators require horsepower.  Horsepower is CPU.  RAM is secondary in a MAME purposed computer.

Bill Mote:

--- Quote from: kelemvor on October 22, 2006, 10:29:38 pm ---if I strip out everything normally running XP, maybe 256 would be OK.
--- End quote ---

I have XP down to 50 MB memory footprint.  You can see my build script here: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=59353.0

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