i3 4130 performance

**AnyOldName3** · 05-30-2014, 05:10 AM #2

Haswell is a 30% jump clock-for-clock over Ivy for Dolphin and PCSX2's JIT engines, and Dolphin's got faster since 4.0, so a Haswell i3 isn't out of the question at all except for a couple of very demanding games. Only The Last Story and Highrule Field in TLoZ really require a heavily overclocked part, although you may still find there are parts of SMG etc that won't hit fullspeed on an i3. They'll be damned close, though, and I'm pretty sure with the non-crashing Zelda DSP Microcode rewrite, if you had serious issues with speed, you could change the DSP engine temporarily to get past that part.