(03-05-2020, 06:13 AM)mbc07 Wrote: They should. I mean, any reasonably clocked Intel Haswell CPU or newer should handle nearly anything you can throw at Dolphin (e.g. the overclocked Pentium G3258 from my signature, despite being just a dual core CPU, never experienced any slowdown in Dolphin -- although I can't tell if that would remain true for Factor 5 games like Rogue Squadron).
Considering current Zen 2 AMD CPUs allegedly surpasses the IPC of current Coffee Lake Intel CPUs, and taking into account that Coffee Lake is several generations newer than Haswell, Ryzen 3000 CPUs should be more than enough to run virtually anything in Dolphin flawlessly...
Thanks. This is what I figured as well. I should be quite safe with one of those Ryzen processors if I go down the route of building a mini PC. I don't believe the 3200/3400G processors are Zen 2 based though sadly, I think they are Zen+. My main surprise was that the i7-3770 couldn't handle everything, but then again, it is pre-Haswell so perhaps I was expecting a bit too much. Unless of course, something else is going on, but I don't think so. It was better in Windows under DX11/12 but still not perfect.
On your Pentium are you able to increase the resolution up from native without an issue? Have you tried F-Zero GX (in particular the Big Blue stage, which I believe is the first track if you select the Sapphire Cup)?
Thanks!