G3220 or A86600K ..your suggestions ..

01-21-2014, 04:28 AM **#10**

(01-21-2014, 03:19 AM)admin89 Wrote:
Quote:If the A8 is overclockable, i say go for it
Since the OP ask for Dolphin , not for multi-tasking . I say against it
Pentium Haswell is i3 haswell without Hyperthreading . Since Dolphin doesn't support Hyperthreading , it's meaning less to get an i3 for Dolphin unless you need extra clock speed (i3 has higher clock speed)
Base on Dolphin Benchmark , i3 4130 beats all AMD CPU in Dolphin (include FX-8350 @ 4.2GHz). If you get FX-8350 and OC to 5.0GHz then it may have a chance to be on par with i3
On AMD side , AMD 760K (Athlon) Richland is A10/A8 6xxxk Richland without Integrated GPU , Athlon has lower clock speed

thanks to all for the answers

After these considerations

since it must be part of a htpc and consumption and heat generated are important
I'm more inclined to the solution intel

I found the G3430 (Haswell 3.3GHz) for 16$ more, do you think it is worth to invest money compared to the G3220?

in my box of old hardware I found a HD 5550 512M DDR5
you think is enough for 720p? (mario kart, DK country, new SMB)