Forgot about Ogre3d site. I'm old enough to remember when it first started out. (and the crystal space portal engine).
What are you guys load times?
On my MSI GS70 Stealth 2od laptop, I can switch between Intel graphics or Nvidia. Nvidia loads around 3 times faster.
Running Linux only, btw.
And on the test arcade cab, that runs an Nvidia GF 8600gt, an M2N-MX SE motherboard + Athlon 64 x2. No performance hit at all.
The bare minimum spec I've found is p4 3ghz for mame, 8600gt for shaders. <<< runs everything except 3d games like Tekken.
And to run mame 3d games at full speed, you need a modern dual core, like an AMD Bulldozer cored cpu.