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

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lanman31337:
Some of the ASRock boards overclock like a champ.  My old 939 board would overclock like no other, and was rock solid stable too. 

massive88:
Just thought Id post my results as I just built a new Core 2 Duo computer.

I only ran a few games, in a very small sample.  And while I snagged my arguments from http://benchmark.mameworld.net/ once I had started I realized I should have used a longer sample time.  Blitz 2k for instance, never gets to the actual gameplay.  Oh well.  So take these numbers for what they are worth, at the very least, a comparative example between OS's and clock speeds.

All binaries were the official binaries.  Settings were:
mame -noautoframeskip -frameskip 0 -seconds_to_run 100 -nothrottle -nosleep -video ddraw -skip_gameinfo -effect none -nowaitvsync -noreadconfig -mt ROMNAME

I also saw about 5% increase due to multithreading across the board as mentioned earlier in this thread.

Old PC - Athlon XP 1700 - mame.exe
Killer Instinct 2 - 84.6%
Cruisin USA - 83.9%
Gauntlet Dark Legacy - 24.0%
Blitzk 2k - 25.3%
Gradius 4 - 17.9%

New PC in 32bit XP - 2.66ghz - mame.exe:
Killer Instinct 2 - 352.9%
Cruisin USA - 149.3%
Gauntlet Dark Legacy - 86.4%
Blitz 2k - 100.9%
Gradius 4 - 74.3%

New PC in 32bit XP - 2.66ghz - mamepp.exe:
Basically the same as mame.exe

New PC in 32bit Vista - 2.66ghz - mame.exe:
Basically the same as XP.

New PC in 64bit Vista - 2.66ghz - mame.exe:
Basically the same as 32bit.

New PC in 64bit Vista - 2.66ghz - vmame64.exe:
Killer Instinct 2 - 430.5%
Cruisin USA - 175.3%
Gauntlet Dark Legacy - 97.8%
Blitz 2k - 126.4%
Gradius 4 - 49.2%

Overclocked PC in 64bit Vista - 3.33ghz - vmame64.exe:
Killer Instinct 2 - 538.1%
Cruisin USA - 217.8%
Gauntlet Dark Legacy - 119.1%
Blitz 2k - 157.3%
Gradius 4 - 61.9%

Gradius is much slower in the 64 bit binary, but the other 4 games I tested saw anywhere from 5-20% speed increase, just by going 64 bit.  So my assertion if you get a core 2 duo, get a 64 bit OS, and get rockin.

Jdurg:
Nice results.  With Blitz, I wouldn't be too concerned.  The demo, if run long enough, gets into some gameplay and that does tax your system.  I would think at that speed that you'd be good to go.  I have a 2.50 Penryn Core2Duo in my laptop, and Blitz is fully playable but with sound hiccups in the middle of gameplay. 

MK4 is another good one to test on, but from what I get out of my system I'm pretty certain yours would run just fine.  (Hopefully Aaron gets the 'bug' to continue working on that driver.  It's about 75% "playable".   :cheers: )

massive88:
Yeah, I just really wished to illustrate my results of going from good old XP to 64 bit vista and the 64 bit binary on a Core 2, to add my results into the "64 bit is king" arena.  That was a major jump for just changing binaries.

Now if only I can get Mamewah working under Vista...

styxx:

--- Quote from: taz-nz on April 15, 2008, 07:20:38 am ---I'm busy moving house so the short answer is forget it, just sell the AGP ArcadeVGA I'm sure someone here will pay you a far price for it. The Asrock board is going to limit your options no end, Asrock is the last brand I'd recommend anyone use, and  the via chipset just isn't going to overclock well. Cut your losses and do it right the first time, it will save you money in the long run.

--- End quote ---

I think you're right, and after some research I decided to go for this option:

Motherboard Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R P35 S775

Intel CORE 2 DUO E8400 3.00GHZ FSB1333 6MB

Corsair Dual Channel 2GB PC8500 DDR2 Dominator 1066

Asus Ati Radeon x600 - Modded with Soft15Khz(I love this Tool)

I' ll get the components in a week or two, afterwards I'll post some results... >:D

As I'm not an expert overclocker I don't know how far can I go, but hopefully I won't blow up the hole thing, my real concern is the fact that it will all go inside my MAME cabinet.
Looks like the back door has to go ;D

 :cheers:

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