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4Ghz Core 2 Duo vs M.A.M.E. 0.120 (benchmark results)

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divemaster127:
i got my 6850 yesterday i will drop it in today & overclock to see how it does
dm

taz-nz:

--- Quote from: divemaster127 on December 01, 2007, 12:24:11 pm ---i got my 6850 yesterday i will drop it in today & overclock to see how it does
dm

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Cool, good luck with the overclock.

I'll be interest to see what you get out of it, be nice to have someone else at 4ghz to compare system preformance againest.

The more I read about the E8400-E8500 Core 2 Duo's the more I think I'll be changing CPU's at the end of January, 4.5-5.0ghz sounds good to me  >:D, of cause that last figure will probably required a switch to water cooling.

I'm about to shut down my system, install a spare HDD I have laying around and have a go at instlling 64bit linux & then SDLMAME 64bit, so that should keep me busy for a couple of days getting everything right. I'll post benchmarks when I'm done.



Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote from: taz-nz on November 29, 2007, 08:22:25 pm ---Watch yourself with the 965 chipset boards, there was much larger spread in overclockablity on these boards, the P35 chipset handle high FSBs better and the P35 boards tend to designed to handle those high FSBs better, there are some good 965 overclocking boards out there but you'll probably find you can pick up a P35 chipset board for about the same price. As for brand stick with Gigabyte of ASUS, I was a big fan of Abit up until about 2 years ago, and then they just seamed to loss it, Asrock & Biostar both make cheap rubbish stay away from them.

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Thanks Taz - I can find TheManuel's Abit 965 board open box for about $45, and other P35's for about $60 while the Gigabyte P35's are about $90 (and the Gigabyte 965's are more than that oddly).  I suppose you get what you pay for to some extent, and I obviously don't replace my systems every six months so nickel-and-dimeing on the mobo doesn't seem like a good idea.


--- Quote ---Power supply Cooler master makes some ok 460watt PSU at a good price, but you may not need anything that big depending on what other hardware you plan to run.

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I believe the current PS is a Fortron 300W (FSP300-60PN) but most of the reviews said it was actually closer to 350W given the specs on the rail ratings - (Thought it was a 350 until I checked the order history - guess it probably needs to go).

Tiger-Heli:
Thanks TheManuel -

CruisnUSA was likely a poor choice, at one time it was a real dog in MAME, but I tried with my Athlon XP 2800 (Barton) and got 58-60% in game with probably MAME 0.113 (not sure), almost but not quite playable.  SF Rush ran about 19-21% in game, but it took about 5 minutes to get past the two 15-second countdowns, totally unplayable.  I didn't have the other two games available on that system.

--- Quote from: TheManuel on November 30, 2007, 08:54:05 pm ---During the actual game, the FPS fluctuated between 40% and 80%.  Not very playable.
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But a lot better than I'm getting. 8)


--- Quote ---Ridgerac ran in the 30%, very slow.
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Hmmmmn, interesting that it's that much slower in-game than the benchmark indicates - not an encouraging sign.


--- Quote ---I suppose you can enable framskip for some of these games and get by.
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Actually, I don't think you can - I don't remember the actual page, but I think it was on Aaron Giles website when people were complaining about slow speeds in Cruisin.  Aaron said that frameskipping helped in 2D games (like say Tiger-Heli or Striker1945 when the game had to calculate and draw the whole frame.  I crusin, where you are drawing in 3D, Aaron said the game still runs all the calculations and then just doesn't draw them - so you don't get a speed increase and just get choppier video.  (That's probably not 100% technically accurate, but that's the basic concept).

What you can probably do is go into the cheat menu and UNDERclock (I used to know why it was under and not over) the game CPU's and increase performance, but that sometimes messes up the audio.  (Or do like Taz and buy a 5Ghz CPU - just kidding :laugh2:)

Again - I really appreciate you taking the time to run those tests for me!!!!

Popcorrin:

--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on December 02, 2007, 07:21:39 am ---
What you can probably do is go into the cheat menu and UNDERclock (I used to know why it was under and not over) the game CPU's and increase performance, but that sometimes messes up the audio.  (Or do like Taz and buy a 5Ghz CPU - just kidding :laugh2:)


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You underclock it so that mame is in a sense emulating a slower cpu, but like you said, if you underclock it too much you get problems with the audio.

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