limith Wrote:For gaming there's a Toms Hardware report that says the 4th generation stuff is generally only 10% better than 2nd generation Intel after overclocking is taken into consideration due to the fact the 3rd/4th generations focus more on energy efficiency. If you don't care about electricity bills, just get a new motherboard (that's "future proof") and a used/old/ or even new top of the line i7 from the 2nd generation that can overclock and use all of your existing old computer parts. Power supply shouldn't cost you more than $50 if you need one (really only need minimum 400W for 1 graphics card, 600W for 2), you can get a great cooler for $40 to let you overclock your processor to 4.7+Ghz, and the processor/Mobo combination shouldn't be more than $450 (pretax) at most if you buy new because that's how much I spent on it when it came out, cheaper if you buy used.
That's a bit of an oversimplification. Haswell ranges from 0% to 30% faster clock for clock than ivy bridge depending on the application. Averaging around 10%. But for dolphin it's very close to 30%. You should probably take a look at our wind waker benchmark: https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-the-legend-of-zelda-the-wind-waker-cpu-benchmark
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-Mark Antony