(02-20-2015, 04:44 AM)Phönixfire Wrote: Hi all together,
i'm having problems to decide which combination i should buy in a Laptop to get the most out of Dolphin for Xenoblade Chronicles with a higher internal Resolution (maybe 3x to 4x). I read that its heavy CPU dependent and that Dolphin utilizes only up to 3 cores, so which of those both options would be preferably:
Option 1: i5 4690K & Nvidia GTX980 (4 threads, 3.5GHz normal, 3.9GHz Turbo but better GFX with 8GB)
Option 2: i7 4790K & Nvidia GTX970 (8 threads, 4.0GHz normal, 4.4GHz Turbo but worse GFX with 6GB, especially because of the 4GB Bug)
I also need to mention that i plan to OC the CPU and play Dying Light on it.
My eyes picked the batman "Clevo P770ZM":
http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/official-clevo-p770zm-sager-np9772-owners-lounge.768770/
The rest of the config will be:
8GB of RAM
512GB SSD Samsung 850 Pro
Windows 7 x64
I hope that you can help and explain me why either option should be chosen, THX in advance
Sager/Clevo has been doing this for a while. I haven't kept up with that part of the market as I don't game on laptops - I just use ultrabooks for work/browsing nowadays.
Either choice should be fine for Dolphin. Both CPUs should be pretty close for gaming and for Dolphin. Dolphin mainly uses 1 core. Hyperthreading won't help (it can hurt in some scenarios). I wonder how the cooling is on such a machine and whether throttling comes into play.
970 or 980 should be fine. 3.5 GB is plenty for Dolphin or pretty much any game that's not being played at 4K with obscene settings.
For gaming outside of Dolphin the i5 should be plenty to drive a single 970 or 980. It can be OC'd to at least 4790k speeds, though I'm not sure if that can be done on a clevo machine. The lack of HT or a couple MB of cache shouldn't hurt gaming much at all. The i5 + 980 should give you a better overall gaming machine.