> > If you do decide to swap you should consider running some benchmarks with MAME and
> > some other tools before and after swap, which would provide proof of answering what
> > your curious about.
>
> Yeah, I'd love to see MAME benches between those two configs. That's an area where we
> assume some things but don't necessarily have actual numbers.
I have even seen a difference in speed of MAME, with the only thing different was the Motherboard. When I first got my P4 3GHz, I had a Gigabyte mother board (~$150), I had power problems, and it killed my motherboard. I then got a some cheap motherboard, cost me about $60. MAME and the rest of my games ran slower. I used to have some benchmarks, though not with MAME, showing the CPU 10% to 20% slower and the video just a little slower. The hardware was an Audigy 1 soundcard, 120G HD (Maxtor) which I still use and nVidia 5200.
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