(07-10-2014, 08:48 AM)admin89 Wrote: While FX 8350 is powerful for multi-threaded application , it's poor choice for Emulator such as Dolphin since Dolphin is a dual core application
Why ? AMD Piledriver's single threaded performance a.k.a performance per core is poor
Stock i3 4130 @ 3.4GHz easily outperforms OCed FX-8350 @ 5.0GHz in Dolphin Benchmark
The new Anniversary (Unlocked) Pentium @ G3258 is extremely good at overclocking (4.6GHz on Intel Stock fan , no need aftermarket cooler ) . It has been tested with Dolphin recently :
https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-dolphin-benchmark-g3258
Pentium G3258 @ 4.5GHz beats i7 4770k @ 4.3GHz in our benchmark so it should be the best bang for buck CPU right now
Pentium G3258 (75$)
Asrock Z97 Pro4(110$)
Sapphire R7 265(150$)
WD Blue 1TB 7200rpm (60$)
Gskill Ripjaws X Series 2x4GB 1600MHz (80$)
Arctic MX-4 (10$)
Silverstone USB3.0 Mid Tower Case (35$)
Seasonic 400W 80 Plus PSU with Japanese Caps (43$)
Total cost : 563$
Btw : Coolmax is a no name power supply , it could fail anytime and kill your desktop components
Thanks! This really helped out and you provided information of why the cpu wont be good once again thanks
and this went 13$ more over my budget but It's not really a difference