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Malenko:

--- Quote from: genesim on August 01, 2007, 01:14:33 pm ---Incidently, 2.4 GiG does not run MK3 at full speed.     

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Mine does, how do I prove it to you? My MAME PC is a lowly Dell Optiplex 2.4GHZ with 1GB(2x512) of RAM on board video, on board sound. System is tweaked and I used new Kingston RAM (not the best but is better then stock dell junk)

EDIT: I must note , even though I dont know how much of a difference it makes, all my games run in 640x480; a limitation of my monitor

Malenko:
Also I must note, that if the motherboard is a hunk o'crap its gonna have an adverse effect on performance no matter what the CPU speed

MrMojoZ:

--- Quote from: genesim on August 01, 2007, 01:17:21 pm ---p.s.   Emachines are made by Gateway and they stopped being "crap" as far back as 2001.    Now they are a poor mans company, but yet have been given a lot of good reviews by CNET and such.

Cheap product, but alot under the hood.   

Still my problem.....I am trying everything, and the stuttering is still happening.    What a piece of crap.

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So they stopped being crap around 2001 and you still call it a piece of crap? Oh the funny.

Now on to your problem, THE PROCESSOR ISN'T THE ISSUE. That seems to be a huge sticking point with you, get over it. Now start looking at other aspects of the system. Are you running Vista with under 2gigs or ram? Are you running Norton internet security? Are you loading 30 things at startup? Have you done any basic troubleshooting?

genesim:
A:)   Out of the Box the Pentium D runs fine.    So it has nothing to do with Emachines.   Perhaps it is the dual core makes it weaker because of course it doesn't run on a single core system...but D is dual core as well, so now it is really confusing, that and I know for a fact that it also trounces the Pentium 4 2.6 that I have.     I think dual core does make a difference, or perhaps it is the 3.0 infrastucture specs of the Pentium D, as opposed to the 64x2 having 2 weaker processors.

B:)I mentioned Mortal Kombat 3 because Malenko says he runs all MK's just fine.


C:)  So therefore it should make no difference right?  I will check out the website, but would they have the experience with MAME??

D:)  Vista is running on the Pentium D, and it runs fine...matter of fact, everything seems to running ALOT faster the XP.    I mean EVERYTHING.     I am so impressed with the system and the complete lack of crashes like the XP is prone too when you try to choke it with too many file names.

(E) Ram is the same on both machines.

F:) Graphics card don't matter.

I have a feeling the 64x2 is the problem with MAME.   I think it is the processor structure not being optimal for single core.    In other words the sum of the parts don't add up to the whole of the single core.

Still, alot of suggestions make sense, but even virus scan and pack ins shouldn't make this much difference.   The speed is uniform...it is just damn slow compared to the Pentium D!

genesim:

--- Quote from: MrMojoZ on August 01, 2007, 01:37:01 pm ---
--- Quote from: genesim on August 01, 2007, 01:17:21 pm ---p.s.   Emachines are made by Gateway and they stopped being "crap" as far back as 2001.    Now they are a poor mans company, but yet have been given a lot of good reviews by CNET and such.

Cheap product, but alot under the hood.   

Still my problem.....I am trying everything, and the stuttering is still happening.    What a piece of crap.

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So they stopped being crap around 2001 and you still call it a piece of crap? Oh the funny.

Now on to your problem, THE PROCESSOR ISN'T THE ISSUE. That seems to be a huge sticking point with you, get over it. Now start looking at other aspects of the system. Are you running Vista with under 2gigs or ram? Are you running Norton internet security? Are you loading 30 things at startup? Have you done any basic troubleshooting?

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I have dropped things at startup and it is the same story.    Do you really need 2 gigs of ram when the Pentium D seems to be just fine without it??

I was calling the processor a piece of crap...unless I figure out what the problem is. :)

The Emachines aren't "crap"...just not the best, but then again, pretty housing is for the ipod generation.   The hardware holds up fine...even if cheaply made.    Got nothing to do with the shortcomings of this processor with MAME.

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