> > 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.
I just built a new pc too and I coughed up a little extra money for the i5 6600k. The clock speed boost over the non 'k' version is modest but I was able to click the "overclock for dummies" button in the bios and have it set itself to 4.4GHz with no work on my part.
When I have some time, I'll see how high it can go. But this is what you're really paying for for the more expensive processors now. The ability to overclock. The price increase of the higher end models doesn't look justified when you only look at the stock clocks of the cpus.
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No slowdown here on my computer. At 100% most of time.
