I'm building a computer and want to know a complete set of hardware that will allow me to play games including Wind Waker, Brawl, Mario Kart, and etc. at full speed 1920 1080p. I don't need antialiasing, which I think is unnecessary.
The website recommends an i5. Will an i7 actually slow Dolphin alone down if it accidentally puts two threads on the same physical core? Or will it speed it up significantly?
Apparently, recent AMD CPUs have gone downhill and are no good for Dolphin. Is that true?
And the site recommends a 6850, but there are many barebones kits with nvidia 660's and i5s. Is there some really serious problem with AMD cards, are they not as good overall, or do there just happen to be less?
Do Nvidia cards support real opencl? I read somewhere that before they used an opencl to cuda converter that didn't work well. But does OpenCL even make a performance improvement at all?
Is there any difference between motherboards, other than the universal presence of Restricted Boot?
Will different hard drives or SSDs fail quickly?
... How do I edit the poll?
The website recommends an i5. Will an i7 actually slow Dolphin alone down if it accidentally puts two threads on the same physical core? Or will it speed it up significantly?
Apparently, recent AMD CPUs have gone downhill and are no good for Dolphin. Is that true?
And the site recommends a 6850, but there are many barebones kits with nvidia 660's and i5s. Is there some really serious problem with AMD cards, are they not as good overall, or do there just happen to be less?
Do Nvidia cards support real opencl? I read somewhere that before they used an opencl to cuda converter that didn't work well. But does OpenCL even make a performance improvement at all?
Is there any difference between motherboards, other than the universal presence of Restricted Boot?
Will different hard drives or SSDs fail quickly?
... How do I edit the poll?