Buying a new laptop

[Arpit]

(05-09-2010, 09:36 PM)MLConian Wrote:

(05-09-2010, 12:50 PM)moosehunter Wrote: Well, there was a sudden change in plans and I got a Gateway DX4831 desktop:
Intel i5 650 @ 3.2GHz
8GB Ram
Nvidia GeForce GT 220, 1GB

The graphic card's not the best, and the BIOS is a piece of ****, but it was only $700.

Would disabling hyperthreading give Dolphin a performance boost? Currently, Task Manager shows two threads being used at 100% and the other two barely being used at all.

And I would be installing Windows xp x64 for reasons unrelated to Dolphin.

With 8 GB of RAM it actually pays to have XP x64 on your system.
As far as I know, hyperthreading has no influence on Dolphins performance. Besides, Dolphin can only use 2 cores (maybe 3 in the future, but that'd be an extra core dedicated to LLE).

First of all, I will recommend this setup over previous one, cause you got a faster processor, more RAM and a good, powerful GPU.

That's true that Dolphin can only use 2 threads for its process, but the others can really help you in another place.

As all other says, XP x64 is for devs purpose, and about useless.

That's all, folks!!

[moosehunter]

(05-09-2010, 09:36 PM)MLConian Wrote:

(05-09-2010, 12:50 PM)moosehunter Wrote: Well, there was a sudden change in plans and I got a Gateway DX4831 desktop:
Intel i5 650 @ 3.2GHz
8GB Ram
Nvidia GeForce GT 220, 1GB

The graphic card's not the best, and the BIOS is a piece of ****, but it was only $700.

Would disabling hyperthreading give Dolphin a performance boost? Currently, Task Manager shows two threads being used at 100% and the other two barely being used at all.

And I would be installing Windows xp x64 for reasons unrelated to Dolphin.

With 8 GB of RAM it actually pays to have XP x64 on your system.
As far as I know, hyperthreading has no influence on Dolphins performance. Besides, Dolphin can only use 2 cores (maybe 3 in the future, but that'd be an extra core dedicated to LLE).

Hyperthreading simulates 4 cores with only 2 physical cores. I don't know exactly how it works, but when running Dolphin, Windows Tack Manage shows 100% CPU usage on two of the four simulated cores with the other 2 almost idle. Because the computer was bought from an OEM, it has a severely limited BIOS so I can't disable hyperthreading. I just wanted to know if it makes a difference before looking to see if there was anything I could do to get full bios settings enabled.

[Jotokun]

Your video card will be fine, provide you dont go for any high resolutions. I have the same card and running at 720x480(native widescreen wii res) I get full speed in most of the games I've tried, and when not full speed I get pretty close to it.

Edit: Just realized you mentioned brawl. In some of the older 4000 series revisons of dolphin, I got full speed with 2 players on most maps(avoid New Pork City), and around 65-75% speed with four players. Quite playable imo. I think the slowdown had more to do with my cpu, so assuming thats correct you should be perfectly fine in the speed department.