> Except an i7 will not help with the Mame STV driver as it is very poorly
> multithreaded, load is overwhelmingly on a single core, only occasionally making use
> of a second core, let alone 4 cores with hyperthreading.
I'm not sure systems like STV/Saturn could be multi-threaded. As I've read here, the tight timings required for emulation make it impossible to farm out the load to other cores. Unless something has changed, MAME is still a very single-threaded application.
Guess I should've opted to get a faster i5. The price difference to go from 3.2 to 3.5 on up is ridiculous!
Hopefully AMD puts Intel in their place this year and prices come down.
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No slowdown here on my computer. At 100% most of time.
