I understand that Dolphin's requirements could change, which is why I mentioned how easily the 7600 handles it, with plenty of headroom. Just for comparison, everybody seems to agree that the Pentium G4560 is a great budget CPU that easily handles all things Dolphin. So even it has some headroom in case Dolphin gets less efficient in the future. It has a single thread rating on Passmark of 1993.
The stock i5-7600 has a single-thread rating of 2297, giving it considerably more headroom.
Obviously the OP can use whatever he likes. I only brought this up because lots of people seem to be under the mistaken impression that a watercooled, overclocked CPU is the only way they can get SMG to run smoothly. That's an understandable impression for somebody to have if they've been reading old threads about Dolphin performance from a few years ago. But it just isn't the case anymore.
Based on what I've seen here over the past few months it seems like everybody is trying to figure out how they can run at ever higher resolutions... 1080p, 1440p, 4K. For that it might be a better strategy to pick a less expensive CPU to have money left over for a higher-end GPU.
The stock i5-7600 has a single-thread rating of 2297, giving it considerably more headroom.
Obviously the OP can use whatever he likes. I only brought this up because lots of people seem to be under the mistaken impression that a watercooled, overclocked CPU is the only way they can get SMG to run smoothly. That's an understandable impression for somebody to have if they've been reading old threads about Dolphin performance from a few years ago. But it just isn't the case anymore.
Based on what I've seen here over the past few months it seems like everybody is trying to figure out how they can run at ever higher resolutions... 1080p, 1440p, 4K. For that it might be a better strategy to pick a less expensive CPU to have money left over for a higher-end GPU.
