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athlon 64 4000+ is it good enough for most games?
robot8319:
i am about to upgrade my setup to something a little new a 2.6 p4 can only go so far these days..
this is what i plan on buying..
athlon 64 4000+ am 2
1.0gig of ram
160gig hdd
dvd+r burner
the os of choice will be winxp 64 bit of course.
now is this setup going to be enough for fullspeed on the crusin games and carnevil?
or do i need something a tad faster?
the single core 4000+ clocked at 2.6ghz costs $50 while the lowerclockced dual core 3800+ costs almost $80 clocked at 2.0ghz...
which is the better deal and why i dont care for FPS or pc games i am buyign this strictly for mame use only.
retrometro:
For "straight" mame use, your P4 2.6 is plenty fast.
also, I don't know why winxp 64bit is the OS choice. you'll be fine w/ winxp standard as long as you update your system enough to be stable and then just update / test your front end / mame when you have time.
What seems to be running so horribly that you are considering this upgrade? Have you tried games and front ends on your existing P4 2.6?
robot8319:
tekken 1 2 3 games runs around 55fps
crusin usa runs about 33fps with fskip off
carnevil runs 18fps
i am hoping to play carnevil as thats one of my favorite games to play.
if it matters i am using the pentium 4 optimized version 0.110..
in 0.119 tekken goes slow for me i dont know whats up with it..about 45 to 30fps on average...
is the 4000+ at 2.6ghz worth fitty?
SGT:
Zinc runs tekken 1 2 3 very well IMO.
According to one of the Devs (Arbee), Cruisin USA requires an Intel Core 2:
http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Number=120275&page=&view=&sb=5&o=&fpart=1&vc=1
I use Project64 for the N64 port of Cruisin' USA.
I have no idea about Carnevil.
Chris:
Carnevil and Cruis'n are not playable near 100% on a 4000+, or on an X2 4600. NewEgg has an Athlon X2 6000 on sale for $169; that may be a better bet. It's worth noting that I tested those with a 32 bit MAME; I haven't tried it with a 64 bit build on a 64 bit Windows.
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