> > well i saw that on a site the intel ting- will clock speed help mame- fx can clock > > very good speeds when overclocked- will this help mame games run faster. forget > > benchmarks i want to now how the games actually ran on the chip. cus i want to > build > > a pc for mame and tings are very expensive were i live and i cant afford intel. > > > Clock speed is irrelevant...an Intel sandybridge/Ivybridge CPU is 40-50% faster than > a Bulldozer FX CPU at the same clockspeed. > > Just think about that for a second...an Intel CPU at 4Ghz is as fast as an AMD FX CPU > would be at nearly 6Ghz in MAME. > > I've done my own testing in MAME with an AMD Phenom II CPU that can run with 2,3 or 4 > (@3.8Ghz) cores and I can tell you for a fact that the optimum efficiency is 3 > cores...any more than that and the gains are marginal, about 5% at most. > > A dual core budget Intel CPU with Hyperthreading running at 3Ghz or so will be most > likely faster for MAME than a 4Ghz overclocked AMD FX CPU with 4 or more cores. > > There is no getting around the fact that for MAME, Intel CPU's wipe the floor with > AMD, having said all that, the VAST majority of games in MAME will run at full speed > on a 4Ghz or faster AMD CPU, and those that don't, are for the most part, pretty > unplayable anyway, because of immature driver support in MAME.
whats the highest clocked i3 that i can get out of the box that is - would that be a good chip
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