Intel Core i5-4210H vs Intel Core i7-5700HQ

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Quote:I read that dolphin is using only 2 cores, so the i5 should be a better a choice because is has more mhz. Is that correct?

It would be correct if both CPUs didn't have Turbo Boost feature ...
According to notebookcheck.net , The i7 5700HQ can turbo up to 3.5GHz with 4 cores active while the i5 4210H only turbo up to 3.4GHz with 2 cores active

Quote:I read that dolphin is using only 2 cores

True but you forgot about the windows background processing . Dolphin is not the only one that eat CPU resources ...
A Quad Core should be up to 20% faster than a Dual Core in Dolphin
So if you only have Dolphin in mind and you don't care about newer emulator (like Cemu , RPCS3., Xenia...) and PC games then you will be fine with that i5