I have an arcade project that is nearing completion (see it here ) and pretty much anything nowadays will run all the arcade games, SNES games, and n64 games I want. Now, this arcade was built with smash bros melee and brawl in mind. Those joysticks are analog (walk as well as run) and the color layout was deliberately close to some console button colors and matched for every player.
The issue I'm having right now is I have the computer parts on order which are a G3258, an asrock h81m-HDS, a Radeon 5750, 4GB of DDR3 RAM, and an 80GB SSD (2TB pre-done hyperspin one will be ordered within the month). Those parts in theory should play nice and the G3258 shouldn't have trouble getting to 4.4GHz on that board.
The cost was roughly $227 bucks for everything, but right now on craigslist someone has an Dell XPS 8700 for $400. I know that the PC enthusiasts are yelling "custom only!" and I've done many, many custom builds. But dat i7 doe. It has an i7 4790 (non-k), 16GB DDR3, a GTX 745, and a 2TB HDD.
At this point I'm half tempted to sell the g3258 build for $250-300 and up to the XPS with the i7, but I'm not sure if it'll even be worth it. I'm mostly going to be running only at near-native res on that arcade-style monitor (800x600 I believe, possibly 1280x1024 tops). The computer won't be used for anything but this arcade likely. MAYBE I'll hook it up to the TV that's next to it for some gaming on that, which is 1080, but I doubt it (we have a gaming PC in the other room that steam in-home streams to it.
So what's everyone's opinion? Should I ditch the G3258 for the extra horsepower even though it's technically less on those two cores? Will dolphin even care about an i7's extra cores and/or threads?
Thanks for all the input, it's very much appreciated!
EDIT: Also, it's VERY important to me to have NO drops below 60fps in smash. It even irks me when it has a slight stutter during Ready.... GO! with 4 players.
The issue I'm having right now is I have the computer parts on order which are a G3258, an asrock h81m-HDS, a Radeon 5750, 4GB of DDR3 RAM, and an 80GB SSD (2TB pre-done hyperspin one will be ordered within the month). Those parts in theory should play nice and the G3258 shouldn't have trouble getting to 4.4GHz on that board.
The cost was roughly $227 bucks for everything, but right now on craigslist someone has an Dell XPS 8700 for $400. I know that the PC enthusiasts are yelling "custom only!" and I've done many, many custom builds. But dat i7 doe. It has an i7 4790 (non-k), 16GB DDR3, a GTX 745, and a 2TB HDD.
At this point I'm half tempted to sell the g3258 build for $250-300 and up to the XPS with the i7, but I'm not sure if it'll even be worth it. I'm mostly going to be running only at near-native res on that arcade-style monitor (800x600 I believe, possibly 1280x1024 tops). The computer won't be used for anything but this arcade likely. MAYBE I'll hook it up to the TV that's next to it for some gaming on that, which is 1080, but I doubt it (we have a gaming PC in the other room that steam in-home streams to it.
So what's everyone's opinion? Should I ditch the G3258 for the extra horsepower even though it's technically less on those two cores? Will dolphin even care about an i7's extra cores and/or threads?
Thanks for all the input, it's very much appreciated!
EDIT: Also, it's VERY important to me to have NO drops below 60fps in smash. It even irks me when it has a slight stutter during Ready.... GO! with 4 players.