How would this Athlon fair with Dolphin?

LordBarker · (This post was last modified: 09-25-2011, 08:44 PM by LordBarker.)

Howdy ladies and gents,
I'm looking for fullspeed on Dolphin - pretty much 60fps on all titles at 720p or higher, and wondered how this unit might fair? I'm not experienced with AMD CPU's and generally know they're not as good as Intel's for Dolphin, so thought I'd enquire. Specs:

Case Fans: x3 120mm (2x Front, 1x Rear), x1 140mm (Top)
CPU: AMD Athlon II X3 445 Processor @ 3.875GHz (1.45V, 52C under load)
CPU Fan: Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro rev 2
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA770-UD3
RAM: Kingston HyperX 4GB (2x2GB) 800MHz 4-4-4-12-2T
GPU: XFX NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280
Optical Drive: Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-216D
PSU: Antec TruePower New 550W Modular PSU
HDD: WDC WD4000AAKS-22YGA0 (400GB)

Thanks a lot Smile

naoan · 09-25-2011, 09:41 PM #2

It'll do about the same as your imac, and why 280?

LordBarker · (This post was last modified: 09-25-2011, 10:07 PM by LordBarker.)

(09-25-2011, 09:41 PM)naoan Wrote: It'll do about the same as your imac, and why 280?

Ok ta mate, Ah it comes with that mate, it's a cheap pre-build - it would be the same even running at 3.9?

StupidStories · 09-25-2011, 10:28 PM #4

Naoan is right. There is a ~25% (depends on application and core) difference between Intel and AMD right now. Tom's Hardware did a comparison between x86 cores a while ago.

**dannzen** · 09-26-2011, 12:20 AM #5

or this one here...
a single core comparison
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/proc...,2974.html

you're seeing with only 1 core with the same clock... intel is still good 20-30% better