(10-03-2013, 11:53 PM)rokclimb15 Wrote: The i7 isn't overkill for multi-threaded applications like video and music/graphics production and editing. It has Hyper Threading, which effectively doubles the number of cores available to the OS. The CPU in this box is roughly equivalent to the Haswell 4670K in terms of clock and IPC. This would be a sensible choice for a dual-purpose rig.First of all, thanks for the info!
However, the i7 is overkill for Dolphin because it will not use those extra cores. Additionally, this will not play the most demanding tier of games at top performance because the Turbo Boost only goes to 3.9 GHz and it won't be possible to overclock this CPU with that SFF case. It wouldn't be easy anyway because I doubt that CPU is unlocked or the board has the ability to change those settings. That extra 300-400 MHz doesn't sound like much, but it's the extra bit needed to make some games run at full speed.
Still a good choice if you're willing to spend the extra money and have another purpose in mind.
Second, is it possible you could list some of the games that might not work well on that Dell Optiplex that I listed (regarding the ones I mentioned in my previous posts in this thread)? I tried looking up demanding games for dolphin and I know there are a few ones that don't seem to work well for any computer with normal specs (not something like a super computer with multiple super-powerful GPUs and CPUs) like TLS and LoZ: TP (Yeah, I know I listed both in one of my posts in the games I wanted to play, didn't know if the builds everyone was discussing in this thread would run these games well), but I wonder what other games that are not so obviously demanding wouldn't be able to perform well on this PC.
Also, maybe I missed something, but wouldn't the Optiplex be less expensive than the build that I listed previously to it? It adds up to a grand total of $1000 (it was listed on the official Dell website for +$1200 without any additional costs for some reason, gonna have to call up newegg about that) compared to the other build which had a grand total just under $1100. Doesn't really make sense to me that an All-in-One would cost less than a DIY of these standards, but whatever. Just a bit of confusion there.