I now know my budget is $400-$500, What are the best laptops/all-in-ones for running Dolphin in that price range?
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11-01-2015, 10:05 PM
(11-01-2015, 12:04 PM)Multi_Media_Cuban Wrote: I now know my budget is $400-$500, What are the best laptops/all-in-ones for running Dolphin in that price range? It's still a bit unclear to me what your exact plan is. So you currently have a laptop but you're not happy with it and want a new one? Am I understanding correctly? And do you absolutely need Dolphin to run, or are you just interested to know if a laptop like that would run it? There isn't really a laptop for that price that could run Dolphin decently. For around 500$ you could build a budget desktop with G3258 and 750 Ti that runs Dolphin quite smoothly. As a general tip regarding pc hardware, you should never, ever buy an all-in-one. I don't know if you're into pc gaming at all, but generally you would need a pretty powerful pc for smooth performance, and even more so for Dolphin as it needs to imitate the Wii's hardware as it runs (which is very demanding). If I were you, I would either forget about Dolphin altogether or (if you genuinely want to use it) save some money and buy a more powerful desktop or laptop at some point down the road. Buying a desktop would save you quite a lot of money since laptops are generally really overpriced. For a general idea, a laptop that runs Dolphin well would go for around 1200$ which is quite a lot. If you built a similarly powered desktop, the price would probably be 800$ (plus 100-200$ for a cheap monitor if you don't have one already). The components compared here being something like i7-4200HQ and GTX 960M/970M (mobile) vs. i5-4590 and GTX 950/ R9 380 (desktop). But go ahead and clarify your situation a bit, it would make helping quite a bit easier
His plan is clear : he needs a new laptop for school and personal use for a $400-$500 budget, and he wants to know what $400-$500 configuration should be fine with Dolphin.
Well, you can't expect much with this budget. I guess a good i3-4XXXM/i3-5XXXM should be okey, but you will have slowdowns in many games/areas I'm afraid. If you want slightly better CPU performance and a good GPU boost, you can also wait for Skylake i3-6XXXM CPUs.
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Laptop ROG : W10 / Ryzen 7 4800HS @2.9 GHz (4.2 GHz Turbo disabled unless necessary for better thermals) / 16 Go DDR4 / RTX 2060 MaxQ (6 Go GDDR6) (11-02-2015, 01:26 AM)DrHouse64 Wrote: His plan is clear : he needs a new laptop for school and personal use for a $400-$500 budget, and he wants to know what $400-$500 configuration should be fine with Dolphin. The misconception that laptops are not good for emulating Dolphin (or PC gaming for that matter) have changed over the last couple of years. Dolphin has gotten to a point where laptops are now able to handle it perfectly fine and the requirements -> optimization ratio will keep getting lower as long as devs keep tackling any regressions. I've had an i5-4200M + GT720M discrete GPU for over 3 years now that costed $700 at that time and I haven't had any problems emulating demanding games whatsover (Metroid Prime series, SMG 1 & 2) Laptops are perfectly capable of emulating Dolphin at this stage that does not necessarily need to be up to date hardware (Skylake, etc.) The concept that users need to know is that it all depends on the version of Dolphin your using and the game being emulated (demanding or not) So my suggestion to OP is that you look for CPUs that are non 'U' series as mentioned already, and describe which games you plan on emulating. You don't need to shell out $1200+ on a laptop just for Dolphin you just have to know what to look for to get your best bang for the buck and know "how" to use it. Just my 2 cents.
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