Can the ASUS X200MA run dolphin well?

[mstreurman]

(05-09-2018, 09:13 AM)admin89 Wrote: Daysky D-book Pro has Nvidia GT 940M and a Celeron SOC @ 2.2GHz for only $450 . Not sure if it can run Xenoblade but it will be much better than your current laptop since it does have a removable graphic card (MXM form factor) , 6GB of Ram and 128GB SSD

Otherwise just get a real gaming laptop , the Acer Aspire E15 $600 (i5 8250U + Nvidia MX150) , this one will run pretty much all games at full speed if you remove ulv i5's power limit via Intel XTU

Except maybe for the fastest Celeron currently available, the G3900 which is based on the Desktop Skylake architecture, current Celerons will have big issues running games in Dolphin. The Celeron SOC in the D-book Pro is the N3450, which is 1.1GHz base clock and has a turbo of up to 2.2GHz, and is based on Apollo Lake, which is also user for Intel's Atom line. (https://ark.intel.com/products/95596/Intel-Celeron-Processor-N3450-2M-Cache-up-to-2_2-GHz)

I have the Celeron N3350 1.1GHz (with turbo up to 2.4GHz) in my day2day laptop: New Super Mario Bros Wii (maybe the easiest game to emulate) is never running close to 60FPS and has very frequent slowdowns into the low 10's at 1x IR. (https://ark.intel.com/products/95598/Intel-Celeron-Processor-N3350-2M-Cache-up-to-2_4-GHz)

TL;DR: Don't buy a Celeron if you plan on Emulating anything that can use 3D graphics.

Edit: Quite strange how the Intel Celeron naming scheme works... It appears that a lower number has better specs...