> 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.
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