Brand new, be gentle.

[tical2399]

Hey guys been using dolphin for about 2 weeks now and it seems great (megaman 9 & 10 are kinds slow) as I can play lots of Wii and GC games with no issues. However I have a question. I am trying to find out if the computer I gave my girl will be strong enough to run dolphin well for most wii games.

I built an I7 system back in January of last year and I gave my girl most of the parts from my old computer. I gave her a C2D E6550 (2.33 ghz) 4 gigs of ddr2 667 ram, windows 7 x64, GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3R mobo and bought her a 500 watt psu.

The only thing she needs is a better gpu, as I put in an old 6200 le they had laying around. They don't use the computer for much but ms office so a super strong gpu is not needed, but I want to know if I get a HD 5450 will dolphin work well with the other specs i mentioned.

Will probably oc the cpu to around 2.6. Thanks in advance for any info. Also, if this thread is not in the right spot or there is a dedicated thread for these kinds of questions please let me know.

[diaze]

Honestly, the CPU speed is pretty much everything Dolphin relies on in terms of speed.
A better graphics card than the 5450 will just be needed if she wants to use 3x internal resolution or 9xSSAA/16xAF on Full HD.

[sixor]

cpu, no, slow
gpu, no, slow

[tical2399]

(06-21-2011, 02:53 AM)sixor Wrote: cpu, no, slow
gpu, no, slow

Care to elaborate a lil bit?

[Starscream]

Some games will work alright but most will not make it to full speed.

[tical2399]

(06-21-2011, 07:01 AM)[SS] Starscream Wrote: Some games will work alright but most will not make it to full speed.

Ok, guess I will build her a ci3 setup at a later date

[Michiyo]

Honestly I don't think dolphin needs that powerful of a GPU. Emulators are normally very CPU based.

[tical2399]

Well looks like the c2d won't cut it for full speed so i'll look into one of the cheaper ci3 cpu and mobos and pick up a 5450.