What is best Software for my Hardware?

[Kook]

I've been away from this board for a while. Currently, my pimped-out cab (which I haven't updated in over a year) has a 25" standard arcade monitor, 1.4 GHz AMD rig with 1GB, Trident Blade card, and Jpac. For software, I run Win98se (with a TSR to make the Blade output 15KHz). My main emulator is DOS advmame, my front end is mamewah. I tried an arcadevga card for a while, but advmame didn't really support it, and so I tried regular mame and found it took longer to load and ran slower than advmame... so I went back to the Trident card with advmame.

Generally, it works pretty well, but I'm always thinking there is room for improvement. So I wanted to get some opinions. Stick with Win98SE, or take the linux plunge? Stick with Mamewah, or switch to advmenu? Is there a better, faster mame than DOS advmame?

[MrQuan]

This Optimised MAME Builds page has MAME builds for different CPUs (AMD included), perhaps it's worth a try?

[Buddabing]

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

For your next upgrade you can get a PCI-Express ArcadeVGA card (I don't think they are available yet), and a faster processor, and run Windows XP.

But why mess with something that works?