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What is a good HD videocard for the current MAMES?? Need suggestions.

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ivwshane:
I'd go with a passively cooled card that supports multiple video out formats (ie dvi, hdmi, vga), that way if you upgrade your display you can easily connect it to your card.

I purchased an ati 4550 that is passively cooled for about $40 after rebate that should work nicely for you (no additional power needed). Plus the card is capable of rendering blue ray dvd's so a high res tv shouldn't be a problem.

DashRendar:
The other thing to look for is a video card that outputs in 15 Khz frequency, if you're using an arcade monitor.

Kman-Sweden:
About the CPU's then...
Is it only up to GHz then? Could a "cheap" AMD 3.3GHz Phenom II be better than a much more expensive 3.0GHz Intel Quad or i7?
Has anyone tried any of the Intel i7's?

massive88:

--- Quote from: Kman-Sweden on December 29, 2009, 07:09:55 am ---About the CPU's then...
Is it only up to GHz then? Could a "cheap" AMD 3.3GHz Phenom II be better than a much more expensive 3.0GHz Intel Quad or i7?
Has anyone tried any of the Intel i7's?

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Its doubtful that Mame will get much use if any at all at anything over 2 cores.  Theoretically, you could get a triple core processor, and try to put Mame as the only application on two of the three cores, leaving the last for system processes and such, but imo, you wouldnt really see any significant gains.

As to the Phenom 2 vs Core 2 or i7, its generally held that per MHZ, the Core2 is the king, however I dont know that we have definitive data on that.  I personally just got a Phenom 2 x3, and will benchmark it against my core 2 duo to see how they compare, but havent gotten around to it yet.

u_rebelscum:

--- Quote from: massive88 on December 29, 2009, 10:27:22 am ---
--- Quote from: massive88 on December 29, 2009, 10:27:22 am ---Is it only up to GHz then? Could a "cheap" AMD 3.3GHz Phenom II be better than a much more expensive 3.0GHz Intel Quad or i7?
Has anyone tried any of the Intel i7's?

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...As to the Phenom 2 vs Core 2 or i7, its generally held that per MHZ, the Core2 is the king, however I dont know that we have definitive data on that.  I personally just got a Phenom 2 x3, and will benchmark it against my core 2 duo to see how they compare, but havent gotten around to it yet.

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The Phenom 2 was a lot closer to the core 2 cpus in some non-mame benchmarks, than the older phenom (1) and athlon cpus.  But not in others, so I'm not sure how it will really fit in for mame.

Still, from what I've heard mame-wise, the core 2 is the most BANG for the buck (more bang for more bucks), the Phenom 2 the best bang for the (lowest) BUCK (lower bang for lower buck, and not quite as much bang per Hz as core 2), and the core i5/i7 in par with the core 2s (in bang per Hz), but too much $$$ to be a good bank per buck.  (The phenom 2 apparently is better at mame per Hz than the athlon/athlon64/athlon2, but not as powerful per Hz as the core2.)

Again, that's without good mame benchmarks over otherwise "equal" systems though, so I'm eager to see some real numbers.  Thanks massive88! (whenever it happens)

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