About how well will dolphin run on this laptop?

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(04-21-2018, 03:50 AM)JonnyH Wrote: The problem with relying on stuff like throttlestop (or any overclocking/undervolting program) is that you end up playing the silicon lottery

Throttlestop's primary function is not one of overclocking/undervolting, rather is one that just simply bypasses any power-limiting functions and lets the CPU run at its highest possible stock clock.

This is most apparent on my HP 8440p with discrete NVS 3100m and a 35w i5-520m (2c/4t Westmere 2.4GHz base) would commonly run below 2GHz in emulation tasks even though the CPU and GPU temps were only in the 50s or 60s.  This is because the laptop was excedding some arbitrary power limit even though everything was running cool enough, and bypassing these arbitrary power limits is exactly what Throttlestop was originally designed to do as older versions (such as v6.00) do not include such undervolting functionality.

So anything like undervolting is just gravy which is why I mentioned it as secondary to the removal of power throttling, not to mention I specifically used the word "may" as undervolting may not even function on that CPU seeing as that isn't even Throttlestop's primary focus (heck I didn't even know Throttlestop could undervolt until a couple months ago, and I've been using it for over 2 years now).