Counter points, because I wasn't clear enough in my post:
-I say rumored because the chip has not been officially announced by Intel, my bad on that
-Yes, overclocking would draw more power, but at stock speeds of 4.0GHz running at a rumored (because not officially announced) 61W TDP, that's a ways below any i5/i7 chips. That would lead to lees heat needing to be displaced, thus less power draw, thus less noise generated by cooling system, while still being a really fast CPU that can handle darn near anything Dolphin could throw at it
-or skip the overclocking with the i3-7300 at 51W TDP
-Any Skylake i3 would also work, but the Kaby Lake generation of CPUs is a refined version of Skylake, meaning they are expected to be more efficient at the same speeds. You're looking for low power consumption, so it was a factor I was thinking of
-Overclocking does draw more power, but its an optional thing. The base clock of the i3-7350k is really high already, so its like a free pass for more performance in the future
-water cooling tends to be quieter than air cooling unless you get some really nice air coolers
-I have a GTX 760 in my desktop running SMG1 at 3x IR (1080p), there are areas with some slowdown due to light-rays using the OpenGL back-end (haven't tested Vulkan yet). The HD 6570 is way less powerful than a GTX 760, so again, taking that into consideration
-I recommended the 1050/1050 Ti because I am more familiar with Nvidia hardware.
-Dolphin's GPU requirements don't raise very often, usually only when some new feature gets more accurate before it gets optimized. So a 1050/1050 Ti would be a great card for at least 4 years because it's a new design so it'll receive driver updates for at least that long, and is a very capable card.
I recommend this setup because it is what I would buy for myself if I had money to make a new computer just for Dolphin and didn't want a lot of noise. Passively cooled hardware is something I would recommend to stay away from, because those sort of systems are usually clocked at low speeds and will thermally throttle themselves if they can't get enough heat moved away from the system fast enough
-I say rumored because the chip has not been officially announced by Intel, my bad on that
-Yes, overclocking would draw more power, but at stock speeds of 4.0GHz running at a rumored (because not officially announced) 61W TDP, that's a ways below any i5/i7 chips. That would lead to lees heat needing to be displaced, thus less power draw, thus less noise generated by cooling system, while still being a really fast CPU that can handle darn near anything Dolphin could throw at it
-or skip the overclocking with the i3-7300 at 51W TDP
-Any Skylake i3 would also work, but the Kaby Lake generation of CPUs is a refined version of Skylake, meaning they are expected to be more efficient at the same speeds. You're looking for low power consumption, so it was a factor I was thinking of
-Overclocking does draw more power, but its an optional thing. The base clock of the i3-7350k is really high already, so its like a free pass for more performance in the future
-water cooling tends to be quieter than air cooling unless you get some really nice air coolers
-I have a GTX 760 in my desktop running SMG1 at 3x IR (1080p), there are areas with some slowdown due to light-rays using the OpenGL back-end (haven't tested Vulkan yet). The HD 6570 is way less powerful than a GTX 760, so again, taking that into consideration
-I recommended the 1050/1050 Ti because I am more familiar with Nvidia hardware.
-Dolphin's GPU requirements don't raise very often, usually only when some new feature gets more accurate before it gets optimized. So a 1050/1050 Ti would be a great card for at least 4 years because it's a new design so it'll receive driver updates for at least that long, and is a very capable card.
I recommend this setup because it is what I would buy for myself if I had money to make a new computer just for Dolphin and didn't want a lot of noise. Passively cooled hardware is something I would recommend to stay away from, because those sort of systems are usually clocked at low speeds and will thermally throttle themselves if they can't get enough heat moved away from the system fast enough