Building a rig just for emulation

[DJBarry004]

(12-29-2013, 07:43 AM)Recurve Wrote:

(12-28-2013, 03:15 PM)admin89 Wrote:

Quote:I have a gtx670 and 8gb of ram. I take it this is already more than enough, right ?
one that won't bottleneck performance with graphics maxed out

Not even close . GTX 780 (minimum) or better GPU (780 Ti , GTX Titan) . Yes we have GTX Titan user/tester
Forget about Ram . The amount of Ram doesn't matter , 4GB (2x2Gb) is good enough for 64bit OS , higher bus speed matter but not by much
You should be happy with 4x Internal Res , no AA or 2x AA , 16x AF atm (Depending on the game . You can max out graphic in some light-weight games , demanding games are out of the question)

Quote:LLE and little to no speedhacks/speedsettings as much as possible

Wihout speedhack (Vbeam speedhack and Vertex Streaming Hack ) , even the fastest heavily overclocked i5 4670k @ 4.4GHz can't help you in some demanding games
Base on Dolphin benchmark , i5 4670k @ 4.2GHz is on par with i5 3570k @ 5.0GHz
Since you already have Ivy Bridge CPU , you should wait to make a jump for Skylake (2015 or maybe longer than that) or Broadwell next year at least
But if you still want to upgrade then :
_i5 4670k
_MSI Z87 G45
_Aftermarket cooler (Depending on you budget : cheap - CM Hyper 212 Evo , recommended - Noctua DH-N14)
_Aftermarket thermal compound (Arctic MX-4 , IC diamond...)

Or you just get an aftermarket cooler + Arctic MX-4 (if you're using the crappy Intel stock fan atm) and overclock the hell out of i5 3570k (Assume you mobo must be Z75 or Z77 that support overclocking) . This is the cheapest route

You're kidding him, right? A 780 Ti is extreme overkill, and the Titan isn't even that much better than the standard 780 in the first place. He could get by just fine on a 670 and there's just no need for a 4670k; you could get by just fine on a 3570k provided you OCed it up to maybe 4.2-4.4. I mean, hell, I'm on a 2500k at 4.3 with a 7950, and I get full speed on every game I've tried, with 4x AA and 4x internal res.

Playing light-weight games and average-weight games, don´t you?


And admin89 IS right about the GPUs: http://www.game-debate.com/gpu/index.php?gid=1920&gid2=970&compare=geforce-gtx-780-ti-vs-geforce-gtx-670-directcu-ii-top-edition

Even though the 780 Ti has a lower core speed than the 670 GTX, the 780 Ti would have lots of advantage in memory terms:

Amount: 3.07 GB (780 TI) vs. 2.04 GB (670 GTX).
Memory speed: 1.70 GHz (780 TI) vs. 1.5 GHz (670 GTX).
Memory bus: 384 bit (780 TI) vs. 256 bit (670 GTX).
Bandwith: 336 GBps (780 TI) vs. 192 GBps (670 GTX).

And about 780 GTX TI vs. 780 GTX, you´re wrong. The GTX TI has a good advantage in bandwith compared with the normal one:

780 GTX TI: 336 GBps bandwith.
780 GTX: 288.4 GBps bandwith.