My hardware is around of the years 2009 - 2011 ..
While cpus are kind of expensive (if you want one of the new hasswells for example) I won't upgrade it, just because of Dolphin as the only programm needing so much power to run properly .. I don't play often anyway, just once or twice in a week .. I only need to overclock my cpu to around 3.8Ghz when I'm playing with friends and we are recording .. Besides Dolphin's emulation-speed is going up and down with time as you surely know and atm it has many new issues and things are still in work (ax hle) ect. .. There are always coming up minor/big changes which cause a huge speed up and unfortunately also a slowdown ..
And something else ..
Most noob users are advised either to overclock their cpus or to buy a new one .. You should ALWAYS warn them, that o'cking means possible damage to cpu and the whole system and there is no guarantee anymore .. I'm sure there is a warning somewhere in this forums but most people are too lazy to read any of the tutorials and the Dolphin history .. That's why there are always the same threads about people having a slow cpu and complaining about slow framerates while playing ..
While cpus are kind of expensive (if you want one of the new hasswells for example) I won't upgrade it, just because of Dolphin as the only programm needing so much power to run properly .. I don't play often anyway, just once or twice in a week .. I only need to overclock my cpu to around 3.8Ghz when I'm playing with friends and we are recording .. Besides Dolphin's emulation-speed is going up and down with time as you surely know and atm it has many new issues and things are still in work (ax hle) ect. .. There are always coming up minor/big changes which cause a huge speed up and unfortunately also a slowdown ..
And something else ..
Most noob users are advised either to overclock their cpus or to buy a new one .. You should ALWAYS warn them, that o'cking means possible damage to cpu and the whole system and there is no guarantee anymore .. I'm sure there is a warning somewhere in this forums but most people are too lazy to read any of the tutorials and the Dolphin history .. That's why there are always the same threads about people having a slow cpu and complaining about slow framerates while playing ..