How will my CPU perform?

[Cheer]

OPINIONS WELCOME: I am just curious to everyones insight as to how well my CPU will perform on dolphin without being overclocked. I am building my rig at the end of this month. I want to know what everyone thinks. How well will my rig run most games on dolphin??

ASUS P9X79
800W PSU
Core i7 3930K 6-core [/size][/b]3.2 GHz
16GB DDR3-1600
128GB SSD
Radeon HD 7970.

Ive gotten some opinions. I would like some more though

[pwnedatdolphin]

Most games at fullspeed, but a couple will not run fullspeed with LLE audio. You should overclock to 4.5 GHz. That would play pretty much every game at fullspeed.

[Cheer]

Does LLE go on a seperate core?

[ExtremeDude2]

(02-16-2012, 12:33 PM)Cheer Wrote: Does LLE go on a seperate core?

Can, but better if not

[dannzen]

it will perform like the 2500k or 2600k... (@ same clock)
just save money... if you're using this rig only for gaming

[Garteal]

Quote:how well my CPU will perform on dolphin without being overclocked.

Why are you getting a K processor if you're not going to overclock?
Besides, depending on your plans ofcourse, that CPU is pretty much overkill.
If you want to get a PC by the end of this month, you should look at the 2500k(for gaming), 2600k if you really need it for rendering etc.

Better would be to wait 'till Spring that's when the Ivy-Bridge CPU's get released.
You can then pick one of them, (they'll only be slightly faster than the Sandy-Bridge though, from what I've seen). Intel will also probably drop some of the existing CPU prices so you can get your build cheaper.

But to answer your question:
You should be able to play most games fullspeed, with the right settings ofcourse.
There are some games that will require the LLE back-end, which will slow down things considerably depending on the game.

A recent game I had tried was Starfox Adventures, with LLE. (HLE audio is messed up).
And even with my CPU at 4.5GHz it slows down sometimes, but gets up to speed afterwards.

You'll also have these slowdowns with these games.
Another game which you might have trouble getting fullspeed at is the Mario Galaxy games. In order to stay at 100% you might have to overclock your CPU quite a bit.

[Cheer]

I got the K so I will likely OC. I wonder how far I can push it. 4.2 at least hopefully. 4 cores is soooooo 2009. Im turning off hyperthreading. Why?? Cause its stupid. I was a loyal AMD buyer for 9 years. My phenom II begs for its life at the hands of any dolphin game besides mario sunshine. I have faith in my 3930K. I am prepared to OC if necessary

[scummos]

Wait, why would you turn off hyperthreading? It's useful. It's much better to have two cores with good properties plus hyperthreading than having 4 slower cores, if you ask me.

[Cheer]

HT doesnt actually do anything. Its not a real core. It doesnt actually execute anything. The speedup is minimal. If I turn it off, that will help a little bit with the cooling. I am going to likely need to OC this baby. Its a 6 core anyway. HT is stupid. I go look at the graphs in the task manager under performance. Oh look 12 CPU's... NOT!!!!!!!!!!... sad

[scummos]

(02-17-2012, 01:33 PM)Cheer Wrote: HT doesnt actually do anything. Its not a real core. It doesnt actually execute anything. The speedup is minimal. If I turn it off, that will help a little bit with the cooling. I am going to likely need to OC this baby. Its a 6 core anyway. HT is stupid. I go look at the graphs in the task manager under performance. Oh look 12 CPU's... NOT!!!!!!!!!!... sad

Well, if you got 6 cores it's probably kind of pointless. But for 2-Core-CPUs like mine, it's hardware support for threads, which you want.

Then again, 6 cores are kind of pointless anyway, except you're running gcc with 6 threads, or a raytracer (which is really about the only two applications I can think of which would profit from so many threads).