Hi everyone I'm new here!
I've been reading for a few months and agonizing over making the perfect little mini itx box for dolphin to sit under my tv. I took an educated guess and things turned out well. I hope this helps others decide on hardware!
After reading through a lot of posts here and on reddit with a lot of maybe's and should be type statements from people guessing at specific budget hardware for dolphin I made a few purchases and just wanted to post it here. I hope it helps people!
I found a used hp prodesk 400 g4 sff with a Pentium g4560 and 8gb of ram for about 180 Canadian loonies, and took a long time deciding on an Nvidia gt 1030 for about 120 loonies. The low profile single slot card just to say fits. I see a lot of questions about these small cards and these cramped cases.
The exact card(https://www.amazon.ca/GIGABYTE-GeForce-GV-N1030D5-2GL-Computer-Graphics/dp/B071DY2VJR/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=gt+1030+low+profile&qid=1563042627&s=gateway&sprefix=Gt+1030+&sr=8-1)
After a bit of testing I'm happy to say that it works great! I have to use a lower setting for the uber shaders but they are enabled(I can't remember which settings exactly) , and I can play my games on my tv at 3x no problem! The titles I've tried so far have been super mario sunshine and super mario galaxy 2. Are there any other games anyone wants me to test? I'd like to be helpful if I can!
*edited to correct my link to the card in question, I posted the wrong one! My first post and I'm already embarrassing myself...
I've been reading for a few months and agonizing over making the perfect little mini itx box for dolphin to sit under my tv. I took an educated guess and things turned out well. I hope this helps others decide on hardware!
After reading through a lot of posts here and on reddit with a lot of maybe's and should be type statements from people guessing at specific budget hardware for dolphin I made a few purchases and just wanted to post it here. I hope it helps people!
I found a used hp prodesk 400 g4 sff with a Pentium g4560 and 8gb of ram for about 180 Canadian loonies, and took a long time deciding on an Nvidia gt 1030 for about 120 loonies. The low profile single slot card just to say fits. I see a lot of questions about these small cards and these cramped cases.
The exact card(https://www.amazon.ca/GIGABYTE-GeForce-GV-N1030D5-2GL-Computer-Graphics/dp/B071DY2VJR/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=gt+1030+low+profile&qid=1563042627&s=gateway&sprefix=Gt+1030+&sr=8-1)
After a bit of testing I'm happy to say that it works great! I have to use a lower setting for the uber shaders but they are enabled(I can't remember which settings exactly) , and I can play my games on my tv at 3x no problem! The titles I've tried so far have been super mario sunshine and super mario galaxy 2. Are there any other games anyone wants me to test? I'd like to be helpful if I can!
*edited to correct my link to the card in question, I posted the wrong one! My first post and I'm already embarrassing myself...