I was wondering if a Nvidia GTX 280 would perform well with most wii games (mario kart wii, mario galaxy, etc.), and how fast it would be combined with an intel pentium d 3ghz. any tips and comments welcome!
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GTX 280 on dolphin?
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01-26-2010, 05:58 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-26-2010, 06:01 PM by jedikevin20.)
It will suck. Not gonna even beat around the bush on this. Dolphin is heavy CPU not gpu. As a person who has had a pentium d, get ready for crap. You can Oc that thing as much as you want but its just a BAD cpu. You will get most likely 60-70% speed on almost all games or atleast I did. Pentium D is just bad. I personally had mine oced to like 3.5 ghz and it still sucked on anything cpu intensive. Don't even now how to tell you any other way. sorry man.
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I'd also say Keep your money because that gtx280 will simply be bottlenecked by the cpu the best card i would suggest to go with that cpu is a 9800gtx or ATI HD4850
Or for the price of the GTX280 you can get a Core2 series cpu and a decent HD4890 (even a 5770 would be good) or gtx260 (just saying that it would be wiser to upgrade your cpu if your mobo supports the core2 series)
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(01-26-2010, 05:58 PM)jedikevin20 Wrote: It will suck. Not gonna even beat around the bush on this. Dolphin is heavy CPU not gpu. As a person who has had a pentium d, get ready for crap. You can Oc that thing as much as you want but its just a BAD cpu. You will get most likely 60-70% speed on almost all games or atleast I did. Pentium D is just bad. I personally had mine oced to like 3.5 ghz and it still sucked on anything cpu intensive. Don't even now how to tell you any other way. sorry man. (01-26-2010, 06:06 PM)ImbaMe Wrote: I'd also say Keep your money because that gtx280 will simply be bottlenecked by the cpu the best card i would suggest to go with that cpu is a 9800gtx or ATI HD4850 whoa...thanks heaps guys. i was THIS close from blowing all that money for nothing. you're lifesavers! (this goes for you too imba, just dont know how to multiquote) EDIT: found out how to multiquote! yay! \(^_^)/ well...whats the best LAPTOP out there for dolphin? i'd love to play ssbb on the train at decent speeds! |
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