Anybody built with a g4560 yet?

[Sannakji]

Searched, and found some mentions, but I'm thinking about building with one soon and was wondering what people thought about the g4560 as a budget processor for emulators? Emulators being Dolphin, Cemu, Citra eventually, DS emulators etc. Will be sans gpu for a while so not expecting miracles but emulators are mostly cpu intensive right? Will likely pair it with a 480 down the line. Will I get a board that can run my DDR4 at its fastest (3000mhz)? Finding a cheap matx or itx board with decent ports like hdmi 2.0, gen 2 usb 3.0 is proving tricky, if someone has any recommendations for boards I'll take them too. Thanks!

[admin89]

it's a budget CPU but the motherboard that comes with it is not cheap
Budget Skylake mobo is only 45->$50 and skylake i3 6100 is $110 atm...
As for AMD RX 480 , you should steer clear of it if you want to run Cemu at good speed
https://gbatemp.net/threads/cemu-and-xcx-not-running-as-good-as-i-heard.457595/page-2#post-7093463
RX 480 is crashing alot on Dolphin . You can verify this within a few clicks (google)

[Sannakji]

oof. Thanks very much for letting me know. Thats weird. Last I heard amd actually had an advantage, Tekken Tags characters were only displaying on amd cards. Thatsucks. They really should work on the amd side some.

[admin89]

AMD card was bad for Cemu from the beginning ...Since Exzap is a Nvidia user and his emu is not open-source which means it's unlikely to be improved anytime soon (for AMD users)
And btw , here is the skylake motherboard I'm talking about
https://www.amazon.com/MSI-Skylake-3-1Micro-Motherboard-CSM-B150M/dp/B01ASY08HW/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1487136023&sr=8-2
4x USB 3.1 ports (a.k.a USB 3.0 gen 2) and one HDMI port for $50
Most kabylake mobo are over $80 atm

[Sannakji]

Can a g4560 even run RAM at higher than 2133? Weird that H boards are all stuck at 2133.

[admin89]

Does it really matter ? Between 2400MHz(OCed DDR3) and 1600MHz , I saw no performance gain
Unless you use iGPU which will benefit a lot from high frequency...
Higher frequency = Higher (iGPU) memorybandwidth
Edit : Here , i found this on anandtech

2% performance gain which is not noticeable at all

[Sannakji]

Yes I will be on igpu for a while.

[admin89]

Then you shouldn't buy G4560 , because it has the weakest iGPU of the bunch
G4560 : Intel HD 610
G4600 : Intel HD 630
G4620 : Intel HD 630
i3 6100 : Intel HD 530
Base on Benchmark : HD 610 (10-15FPS lower) < HD 530 (1-2FPS lower) < HD 630

[AwesomeMarioFan]

If you are going to be purchasing a Pentium to use the iGPU with - I would recommend the G4620 because of the Intel HD 630. (The G4600 also contains the HD 630, however is 100Mhz lower for $10 less.)

[Sannakji]

I actually saw that and was thinking about it, yeah... hard to find video benches between it and the g4560's graphics though.