Poll: Should I get a GTX 280 to use for the Dolphin emulator?

sandwichbars · (This post was last modified: 01-26-2010, 05:44 PM by sandwichbars.)

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!

jedikevin20 · (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.

ImbaMe · 01-26-2010, 06:06 PM #3

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)

sandwichbars · (This post was last modified: 01-26-2010, 10:29 PM by sandwichbars.)

(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

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)

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 Tongue

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EDIT: found out how to multiquote! yay! \(^_^)/

well...whats the best LAPTOP out there for dolphin Huh

? i'd love to play ssbb on the train at decent speeds!