(12-04-2015, 12:14 AM)TheFirePlayer14540 Wrote: Okay, what is lighter virtualization by the way? And the 6700K is better than the others for Dolphin as well with recording with OBS?
Essentially "not so frequent or demanding virtualization". If you have, say, one Linux Mint running in a virtual machine, then almost any CPU can hadle that. An i7 (or a Xeon for that matter) is only needed when you have upwards of around four resource heavy operating systems in a virtual environment.
(12-04-2015, 12:17 AM)TheFirePlayer14540 Wrote: So you are saying it's better to go with 6700K for Dolphin as well with recording? Will it run any game with no lag/slowdowns?
The 6700K is pretty much the best thing you could run Dolphin on. All (well optimized) games will run with no trouble, and if you OC you can pretty much do whatever you want in Dolphin, including speedhacks etc.
(12-04-2015, 12:36 AM)KHg8m3r Wrote: Even if the difference isn't huge, it is still better
The i7-6700K has 2 generations of improvements over the i7-4790K, so in Dolphin, its around 5-15% faster. Because the other cores are also faster, it'll be able to handle more CPU intensive tasks.
Of the top of my head, I can't think of any games that are so brutal that the i7-6700K won't run because of the optimizations that Dolphin has made over the years.
Well, I wouldn't exactly call Broadwell (5000-series) a complete line of CPUs. They were only marketed with their integrated graphics and/or for prosumer use, pretty much the opposite of the general gamer crowd. 6700K is the direct successor to the 4790K, which took the place of the 4770K. And while yes, the 6700K is faster, the price difference is nowhere near justifiable when Microcenter has the 4790K for 250$. I'd say that 50$ is the most that I would pay for the 6700K's extras, if virtualization is not the main goal that is.
(12-04-2015, 01:02 AM)TheFirePlayer14540 Wrote: Also, what is video conversion?
The conversion of the file type. Let's say that you record lossless video for the highest possible quality (which is usually recommended), but then later want to archive the footage. Lossless video takes up a lot of room, so it's smarter to convert it to a format that gives up on some detail, but is a lot smaller on the hard drive.
(12-04-2015, 01:05 AM)TheFirePlayer14540 Wrote: You don't know what games don't work with my CPU?
Once again, 6700K, 4790K as well as 4690K will give you a smooth and enjoyable experience in Dolphin. In pc games the choice matters even less as most of the work is done by the GPU. I don't think I've ever seen any of those CPUs bottlenecking a gaming system, so you will be able to run pretty much anything on them.
