My current CPU specs

[jarb]

Hi,

I'm new to this forums and I'm sorry to create another one of this threads. I was wondering if my current specs are decent to play super smash bros brawl, Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2, New super mario bros wii, Mario kart wii, super paper mario, and Donkey Kong returns.

My specs are
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6700 (K) (2.66GHz /1066 MHz) 2 x 4 MB L2 cache
Nvidia Geforce 730 2GB GDDR5 / 2048 MB, 64 bit GDDR5 5000 MHz (effective) 40 GB/s Memory Bandwidth
4GB of ram

Also to be more specific I'm asking this because I'm about to order this graphics cards. I wanted a more powerful one, but my power supply only supports up to 350 watts. I don't want to buy another power supply, because I plan to make me a new build next year, since this one is a little outdated. Also getting 40 to 50 FP in this games would be fine. I also checked the GPU thread to see were this graphics card stands, but I see that their is no info on it.

Thanks and sorry for the post.

[JMC47]

Your CPU is fairly old, that's going to be your main problem. I've seen Core2duos/quads overclocked to 3.8GHz before, and to really get playable speeds on a lot of games, you're going to want to overclock it pretty far.

[jarb]

(06-22-2014, 02:56 PM)JMC47 Wrote: Your CPU is fairly old, that's going to be your main problem. I've seen Core2duos/quads overclocked to 3.8GHz before, and to really get playable speeds on a lot of games, you're going to want to overclock it pretty far.

How many Frames per second do you think I could get in some of this games, without over-clocking the cpu.

[admin89]

Those games will be unplayable with your PC if you don't overclock your CPU . You may have a chance with NSMB and Paper Mario though
Audio stuttering will occur if game is not run at full speed

[Shonumi]

Audio doesn't stutter in the latest development builds, it just slows down, but that can be equally annoying if you have noticeably low speeds.

[pauldacheez]

Audio still stutters on non-OpenAL backends. If it doesn't, that's because you have the framelimiter set to some low amount and thus you get the hilariously-awful pitch-shifting (and it *still* stutters if your framerate's lower than the framelimiter).

[Shonumi]

I don't know what you're talking about. I just tried SSBM at 50 FPS (using an NTSC-U version) on ALSA. No stuttering, just slow audio (with pitch shifting, but the announcer is laughably deep-voiced now).

[JMC47]

Some audio backends do still stutter in latest master.

[Shonumi]

Well, not ALSA. Go blame your XAudio2 or DSound or whatever :p

[AnyOldName3]

XAudio2's supposedly not supposed to, and no sane person would use DSound.