Deadly
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Times have been slow here at work so I thought I'd do a little Mame'ing at work 
I built a lowely little system consisting of:
Intel Q9550 2.83 ghz Quad proc
2 gig of ram
Intel motherboard
Crappy Nvidia 6800 (not that it matters)
Windows XP Pro 64bit
Now it gets good
I put the OS on an Intel 40gig SSD drive which boots up (to the point of actually loading everything) in 15 seconds. Usable time is 10 seconds.
I used (3) 80 gig SSD drives and put them in RAID0. Anyone that has a full MAME set knows how freaking long it takes to rebuild your sets with a rotational drive ...... time to go mow the lawn and it might be done when you get back right? I just ran a first time scan with CLRMAMEPRO on a full set and it freakin did it in 15 seconds. Holy shit!!!! This is ridiculous lol.
Not to get off my own subject but what I also find amazing is everyone pushes for that 4ghz barrier. I've always felt the "majority" of stuttering issues are merely IO issues. Now that I have the hardware around me time to do some investigation work. I was able to play a couple games "quickly" that are typical stutter'ers and every great once in a while there will be a small quick hickup in audio. Video wise pretty damn good so far. I'm going to run some benchmarks and see what I can make out of this whole "4ghz needed" area.
I built a lowely little system consisting of:
Intel Q9550 2.83 ghz Quad proc
2 gig of ram
Intel motherboard
Crappy Nvidia 6800 (not that it matters)
Windows XP Pro 64bit
Now it gets good
I put the OS on an Intel 40gig SSD drive which boots up (to the point of actually loading everything) in 15 seconds. Usable time is 10 seconds.
I used (3) 80 gig SSD drives and put them in RAID0. Anyone that has a full MAME set knows how freaking long it takes to rebuild your sets with a rotational drive ...... time to go mow the lawn and it might be done when you get back right? I just ran a first time scan with CLRMAMEPRO on a full set and it freakin did it in 15 seconds. Holy shit!!!! This is ridiculous lol.
Not to get off my own subject but what I also find amazing is everyone pushes for that 4ghz barrier. I've always felt the "majority" of stuttering issues are merely IO issues. Now that I have the hardware around me time to do some investigation work. I was able to play a couple games "quickly" that are typical stutter'ers and every great once in a while there will be a small quick hickup in audio. Video wise pretty damn good so far. I'm going to run some benchmarks and see what I can make out of this whole "4ghz needed" area.

