New Laptop. will this be good enough to use dolphin 5.0

[JonnyH]

(08-27-2017, 09:23 AM)Mahdhi1235 Wrote: Will it be better than 7500?

The 7600 turbo clock (which is what matters, as dolphin will nearly always be single-thread limited to it can use the max turbo) is ~7% faster than the 7500.

But either are way more than you need for dolphin anyway, so they will be functionally the same. Other use cases may be worth the performance boost though.

Also, if you get a non-k processor you can save a few $ by not getting the Z-series motherboards, unless you *need* some of the extra i/o the major feature they enable is overclocking, which is pointless on a chip with overclocking disabled.

[Mahdhi1235]

Im planning on getting an ssd
Should i download dolphin on it?
I knoww that ssd is faster, but can someone tell me what i should download/install on a SSD and what to download/install on a HDD

[Helios]

SSDs should hold your OS and whatever program or game you want to load really fast and would actually benefit from it.

Things that would benefit from an SSD: Your web browser's cache, large AAA PC games

Things that would not benefit from an SSD: Music, videos, documents, Dolphin.

[TKSilver]

I would at the very least not store your backup images on the SSD since they take 1+GB per gamecube game and in general more for a lot of Wii games (though things like VC and some others can be smaller). Since cost per byte is still higher on an SSD there is no need to waste space on things that wont see a benefit.

Dolphin's actual program really shouldn't matter where you put it and if you are not using portable.ini then a lot of generated content (saves, profiles, ect.) are going to end up in an OS folder that will probably be on your SSD anyways.

[Mahdhi1235]

So is 500gb of ssd necessary?
I am planning on building this computer
https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/JP69kT

[Helios]

If you're going Intel, it may be worth waiting a week. Intel is releasing coffee lake next week so you can get that. Intel chips rarely deprecate in price anyways so you wouldn't save much buying older hardware unless you buy used

[TKSilver]

(10-01-2017, 04:54 PM)Mahdhi1235 Wrote: So is 500gb of ssd necessary?
I am planning on building this computer
https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/JP69kT

Not really, but it is up to you and how you are going to use it. Personally, I might get a little less SSD space and more regular hard drive space, but I do less and less new native PC gaming. In my main computer I only have around half the SSD space but I have 3TB of hard drive space, but that just fits what I do on it better.

[Mahdhi1235]

(10-02-2017, 01:58 AM)TKSilver Wrote: Not really, but it is up to you and how you are going to use it.  Personally, I might get a little less SSD space and more regular hard drive space, but I do less and less new native PC gaming.  In my main computer I only have around half the SSD space but I have 3TB of hard drive space, but that just fits what I do on it better.

Is 250gb good? Or maybe less

[TKSilver]

It is really going to depend on what you plan on doing on your PC.

[Mahdhi1235]

(10-03-2017, 01:43 AM)TKSilver Wrote: It is really going to depend on what you plan on doing on your PC.

Im going to play other games on my computer
Including other emulators and steam games