There are many questions of whether or not someone's PC is fast enough to run dolphin.
Last week, I discovered that it doesn't take as much power as I thought.
I tested some gamecube and Wii games on the following CPU/GPU, connected to a 70" 1080p TV.
Celeron G1840 2.8ghz ($43)
EVGA GeForce GT610 2gb 810mhz 500mem ($50)
All other components were bare minimum.
Case was well cooled with 7 120mm fans running at full speed.
GPU has its own fan (consistently running at 100%) and included overclocking software.
I overclocked the GPU to 1100mhz and 600mem.
Here's what I found.
Gamecube---Tested 2 games
Mario Kart: Double Dash
Super Smash Bros Melee
----Both games ran at full speed at 2x
----Mario Kart stayed over 55fps at 2.5x
----Melee dropped below 50fps at 2.5x
CPU/GPU temps were great.
Wii---Tested 3 games
Mario Kart Wii
Super Smash Bros Brawl
New Super Mario Bros Wii
----All games stayed over 56fps at native
----All 3 games dropped below 50fps at 2x
CPU/GPU temps were great.
Conclusion.
This is probably all the power you need to play any gamecube game at native.
Those Wii games ran at full speed at native on a slightly overclocked Pentium G3258 ($65)
There you have it. a $65 Pentium and a $50 GT610 and Dolphin will work for you, at native res of coarse.
Hope those tests interested somebody.
Last week, I discovered that it doesn't take as much power as I thought.
I tested some gamecube and Wii games on the following CPU/GPU, connected to a 70" 1080p TV.
Celeron G1840 2.8ghz ($43)
EVGA GeForce GT610 2gb 810mhz 500mem ($50)
All other components were bare minimum.
Case was well cooled with 7 120mm fans running at full speed.
GPU has its own fan (consistently running at 100%) and included overclocking software.
I overclocked the GPU to 1100mhz and 600mem.
Here's what I found.
Gamecube---Tested 2 games
Mario Kart: Double Dash
Super Smash Bros Melee
----Both games ran at full speed at 2x
----Mario Kart stayed over 55fps at 2.5x
----Melee dropped below 50fps at 2.5x
CPU/GPU temps were great.
Wii---Tested 3 games
Mario Kart Wii
Super Smash Bros Brawl
New Super Mario Bros Wii
----All games stayed over 56fps at native
----All 3 games dropped below 50fps at 2x
CPU/GPU temps were great.
Conclusion.
This is probably all the power you need to play any gamecube game at native.
Those Wii games ran at full speed at native on a slightly overclocked Pentium G3258 ($65)
There you have it. a $65 Pentium and a $50 GT610 and Dolphin will work for you, at native res of coarse.
Hope those tests interested somebody.