So I just bought my girlfriend a new rig, we wanted a cheap one because she wouldn't use it to play many modern games, etc.
It seems the Phenom II X4 @ 3,2 GHZ isn't enough for dolphin.
For muramasa the demon blade it works like a charm (constant fullspeed with frameskeep at 1) but when trying to play zelda the wind waker it works almost as fast as my Athlon II X2 @ 2.3 Ghz laptop.
May this be because of the rig using nothing but integrated graphics?
These are the specs:
AMD Phenom II X4 955 @ 3.2Ghz on an AM3 socket.
2GB DDR3 ram @ 1333Ghz
Integrated Geforce 7025
Windows 7 32bits
I'm guessing the bottleneck here might be the Integrated graphics and we're thinking about upgrading to something not too expensive so she can play some games on this PC, because this phenom seems kind of overkill for the rest of the PC.
Is this really the case? Should I Upgrade to Win X64 even with only 2 gigs of ram? If I were to buy a dedicated graphics card what should I look for? What is popular over here and not too overpriced? What featurse should I look for in a graphics card for dolphin or emulation in general?
It seems the Phenom II X4 @ 3,2 GHZ isn't enough for dolphin.
For muramasa the demon blade it works like a charm (constant fullspeed with frameskeep at 1) but when trying to play zelda the wind waker it works almost as fast as my Athlon II X2 @ 2.3 Ghz laptop.
May this be because of the rig using nothing but integrated graphics?
These are the specs:
AMD Phenom II X4 955 @ 3.2Ghz on an AM3 socket.
2GB DDR3 ram @ 1333Ghz
Integrated Geforce 7025
Windows 7 32bits
I'm guessing the bottleneck here might be the Integrated graphics and we're thinking about upgrading to something not too expensive so she can play some games on this PC, because this phenom seems kind of overkill for the rest of the PC.
Is this really the case? Should I Upgrade to Win X64 even with only 2 gigs of ram? If I were to buy a dedicated graphics card what should I look for? What is popular over here and not too overpriced? What featurse should I look for in a graphics card for dolphin or emulation in general?