Hello. As the title says, which would provide better performance with Dolphin? An e6300 clocked at 4200Mhz or an e8400 at 3915Mhz. I own both processors so it's not a matter of buying anything extra (just a small time investment to swap it out and overclock).
4200Mhz e6300 vs 3915Mhz e8400
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11-21-2011, 08:22 AM
Well spec wise, the e8400 is much better than the e6300 but I'm not sure if the emulator takes advantage of that (I'm guessing it does). Did you hit a wall getting your e8400 to clock higher? It should be able to hit 4ghz I believe
11-21-2011, 09:29 AM
(11-21-2011, 08:22 AM)georaldc Wrote: Did you hit a wall getting your e8400 to clock higher? Yeah, the highest I can push my p43 motherboard is a 1740 FSB so no 4Ghz for me. (11-21-2011, 08:41 AM)boogerlad Wrote: Thanks for the reply, but this is the "Pentium Dual Core" (Wolfdale) e6300 that I own, not the Conroe by the same name. 11-21-2011, 11:26 AM
It astounds me that people willingly subscribe to the idea that anything presented on a neat, cogently designed chart is empirical :p
I don't have answers here, I'm just extrapolating an allusion
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Still hard to tell without knowing how dolphin will behave with the difference in L2 cache.
Seems like it could be anywhere from a ~7% performance gain to a ~11% performance loss. 11-21-2011, 12:59 PM
I'd pick the E8400 simply because of the 6MB cache and it also have a higher FSB. On the other hand, the E6300 only have 2MB with 1066MHz fsb.
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e8400 @ 3.915GHz no question about it. Dolphin will gain a substantial improvement from the 6MB cache (probably around 15-20%) and you will get a memory bottleneck at around 3.8GHz with either cpu so anything past that is effectively pointless.
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