General performance/Hardware upgrade question

miseryguts · 10-04-2011, 07:42 PM #1

I am a fairly new Dolphin user & have so far used it exclusively (with the exception of Xenoblade Chronicles) with my Gamecube titles, which apart from the odd issue all run pretty well at 1920x1200 with 4x SSAA & 16x Anisotropic Filtering.

I aim to upgrade my system (mostly for gaming/emulation) in the near future, but can't afford to spend much money at the moment, could someone advise me which components to upgrade in order to achieve greater speed/visual fidelity when using dolphin.. for the upcoming games.. Skyward Sword etc..

Windows 7 Ultimate x64
i7 920 2.66GHz (o/c to 3.2GHz with stock CPU cooler)
Radeon HD 5870 o/c
2x 250GB SSD

Thanks.

naoan · 10-04-2011, 07:44 PM #2

your cpu cooler, get that 920 at 4GHz, and you're all set.

**Garteal** · 10-04-2011, 07:46 PM #3

Why do you want to upgrade? Your rig is perfectly fine to emulate and play PC games.
It's just going to be a waste of money.

YouHaveRROD · 10-05-2011, 03:04 AM #4

(10-04-2011, 07:42 PM)miseryguts Wrote: I am a fairly new Dolphin user & have so far used it exclusively (with the exception of Xenoblade Chronicles) with my Gamecube titles, which apart from the odd issue all run pretty well at 1920x1200 with 4x SSAA & 16x Anisotropic Filtering.

I aim to upgrade my system (mostly for gaming/emulation) in the near future, but can't afford to spend much money at the moment, could someone advise me which components to upgrade in order to achieve greater speed/visual fidelity when using dolphin.. for the upcoming games.. Skyward Sword etc..

Windows 7 Ultimate x64
i7 920 2.66GHz (o/c to 3.2GHz with stock CPU cooler)
Radeon HD 5870 o/c
2x 250GB SSD

Thanks.

TWO 250GB SSDs? Well,if you have money to spend on that,then i suppose you won't have any problem upgrading to an X68 LGA1155 board and an i5 2500k/i7 2600k.

**ExtremeDude2** · 10-05-2011, 09:14 AM #5

(10-05-2011, 03:04 AM)YouHaveRROD Wrote: i suppose you won't have any problem upgrading to an X68 LGA1155 board and an i5 2500k/i7 2600k.

Yes he will since it hasn't come out yet and it will be X79 :p

YouHaveRROD · 10-05-2011, 09:48 AM #6

(10-05-2011, 09:14 AM)ExtremeDude2 Wrote:
(10-05-2011, 03:04 AM)YouHaveRROD Wrote: i suppose you won't have any problem upgrading to an X68 LGA1155 board and an i5 2500k/i7 2600k.

Yes he will since it hasn't come out yet and it will be X79 :p

Whoops,i meant Z68. My bad.

naoan · 10-05-2011, 04:30 PM #7

I don't think any upgrade now is significant enough, just wait for Ivy Bridge.

SeeK · 10-06-2011, 12:40 AM #8

Yeah, I'd sit tight for a couple of months and make a more significant upgrade later. Anything you get won't be a huge jump from what you have now. In the meantime, I'd see about possibly getting a few for megahertz out of that CPU.