Yeah, Dolphin relies in CPU power most of the time. GPU is heavily used by Dolphin if you, for example, wish to run a game at 4X IR with 4X/9X Anti-aliasing. The better GPU you have, the more IR you will be able to get; the better CPU you have, the faster games will be. (Don´t even know if I put all this correctly, anyone help me correcting this 
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Most performance problems are solved by overclocking, but since you´re on a portable machine you´ll want to take a look at the laptop performance guide.
).Most performance problems are solved by overclocking, but since you´re on a portable machine you´ll want to take a look at the laptop performance guide.
Rig 1: Windows 10 Home | AMD A6-1450 @ 600/1000/1400 MHz | AMD Radeon HD Graphics 8250 | 4GB RAM | HP Pavilion TouchSmart 11.
Rig 2: Windows 10 Pro | Intel Core i7-2640M @ 780/2800/3500 MHz | Intel HD 3000 Mobile | 8GB RAM | Dell Latitude 6320.