i5 or i7?

[Duke Nukem]

(03-01-2012, 05:32 PM)sgsdxzy Wrote:

(03-01-2012, 05:18 PM)admin89 Wrote: Edit : what's about the GPU ? Intel HD 3000 is out of the question

It's gt550m or gt525m. I think it should be enough. I don't care much how games look.

So you say these two cpus may have similiar performance about dolphin. Considering I have other pc games and programs to run, and dolphin may one day support quad core, I prefer i7.
Dolphin has not yet supported quad core, so the openmp is useless at the moment? My ICC would be sad……
By the way, I use linux, so I only have OpenGL.

Please consider a dual boot with Windows 7 because you're going to find out that games will run more smoothly and fluently in Windows with DX9 as the video backend in Dolphin.