(05-30-2014, 03:30 AM)Elvis Wrote: Around the forums i have seen multiple references to the benchmark showing that the i3 4130 is as powerful, if not more so than an overclocked i5 3570k. Does this mean i could play games like the metroid prime trilogy and smg 1 and 2 with it? I'm confused because i'm used to ivy bridge i3's being out of question for dolphin. Is haswell really that great a jump in performance that the 4130 can play such demanding games?
I would wait to to see how the new unlocked pentium performs. The i3 costs a lot more because it has HT and AVX2, which as far as I can tell make little to no difference in dolphin and pcsx2, and a little bit more cache.
If the pentium can overclock really well(i'm sure it will), it may be able to outperform the locked i3 cpus considerably.