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Getting a new CPU wondering if it would be enough.
11-30-2013, 02:28 AM
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I have had it with my Intel Pentium Dual core, it has been the bottle neck of my computer and I have been looking to run dolphin.

My specs as of now
Intel Pentium G6960 @3.52 ghz
8gb of DDR 3 ram at 1333
Nvidia GTX 650

I had already bought my new CPU and it is coming in the mail and I am wondering if it will be good enough to run dolphin stable.
The cpu I got was a intel Xeon 3440
http://ark.intel.com/products/42928/

I plan to overclock it to at least 3.2 ghz
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11-30-2013, 02:49 AM
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11-30-2013, 02:51 AM
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Would playing games at x2 ir be wonders?
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11-30-2013, 03:04 AM
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That would be related to your GPU unless your CPU limits at 1xIR already.

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11-30-2013, 03:10 AM
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I can get gamecube games to run at a sketchy 25-30 fps but I would like full frames that the games can put out.
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11-30-2013, 09:35 AM
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Nah , the "new" CPU will have the same performance as your Pentium if not worse
Both of them are based on 4 years old Nehalem Architecture . Since Dolphin is a dual core applition , a Quad Core is 10->20% slightly faster than Dual Core due to background processing
Penitum G69xx are monsters at overclocking (4.0GHz is possible if you have aftermarket cooling + higher voltage , stable : 3.8GHz) . Xeon is quite bad
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11-30-2013, 09:48 AM (This post was last modified: 11-30-2013, 09:50 AM by ulao.)
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You could have gotten the 3570k for 2 bills? That is not much more then what those zeons go for. Did you get it at a steel of a price or something?
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11-30-2013, 10:32 AM
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Return the xeon and get a haswell motherboard and cpu.

admin89 Wrote:Xeon is quite bad

Xeon refers to the server version of any cpu. Some of them are bad and some are good. A haswell xeon will be just as fast as a comparable i5/i7 model.
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11-30-2013, 10:41 AM
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"Xeon is quite bad at overclocking" was what i meant .
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11-30-2013, 11:04 AM
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Alright, thanks for all of your input on this. I got the Xeon at a steal of a price for 70$ since I'm rather on the poor side this year and I wanted something that would do multitasking a lot better than my dual core. Also I don't think this Xeon is bad at overclocking, looking around I found reports of it going to 4.0ghz stable.
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