New to emulating and want to know if my PC is "good" enough.

[TheFriendlyBroski]

Hello people, I just got round to upgrading my computer with a new graphics card, SSD and PSU!
And since I have had to put away most of my older consoles into storage, I have been looking into doing some emulation with only my Gamecube games.
So, with the hardware I got do you think I can at least do some decent emulation? Thanks in advance to anyone who helps a noob like me.

[TheFriendlyBroski]

Operating System: Window's 7

Processor/CPU: AMD FX8350 Black Edition 8 Core Processor

Video Card/GPU: EVGA NVIDIA GTX 970 Superclocked ACX 2.0 Graphics Card

Memory/RAM: Corsair Vengeance 4GB x2

Dolphin Revision Currently Using: 4.0-6126 - x64

[IVCrumpet]

(05-01-2015, 06:33 AM)TheFriendlyBroski Wrote: Processor/CPU: AMD

Sorry, current AMD CPUs have awful per-core performance, which is critical for Dolphin. Having 8 cores doesn't help more than having 2, and the graphics card barely matters at all apart from enhancements and such.

However- performance depends on the game (certain games bring even the best systems to their knees, some others run fast on almost anything) and overclocking your processor might help. So I suggest just grabbing some games and giving it a go. If it doesn't reach fullspeed in the games you want, try overclocking your processor a bit and see if it helps.

If it's still too slow, you're out of luck- you'd need to get a recent Intel CPU with a high clock speed (and a motherboard to go with it, of course).

[TheFriendlyBroski]

(05-01-2015, 07:38 AM)IVCrumpet Wrote:

(05-01-2015, 06:33 AM)TheFriendlyBroski Wrote: Processor/CPU: AMD

Sorry, current AMD CPUs have awful per-core performance, which is critical for Dolphin. Having 8 cores doesn't help more than having 2, and the graphics card barely matters at all apart from enhancements and such.

However- performance depends on the game (certain games bring even the best systems to their knees, some others run fast on almost anything) and overclocking your processor might help. So I suggest just grabbing some games and giving it a go. If it doesn't reach fullspeed in the games you want, try overclocking your processor a bit and see if it helps.

If it's still too slow, you're out of luck- you'd need to get a recent Intel CPU with a high clock speed (and a motherboard to go with it, of course).

Well darn! Thanks for the reply dude, I shall go round and check it out for my self

[admin89]

i'm afraid you have to push it to 5.0GHz but still not fast enough for some demanding games

[TheFriendlyBroski]

(05-01-2015, 08:18 AM)admin89 Wrote: i'm afraid you have to push it to 5.0GHz but still not fast enough for some demanding games

Sad times for me!

[admin89]

It should be fast enough for most games though
A10 6790k stock speed plays most games full speed (Xenoblade for an example)

[TheFriendlyBroski]

(05-01-2015, 08:23 AM)admin89 Wrote: It should be fast enough for most games though
A10 6790k stock speed plays most games full speed (Xenoblade for an example)

I kinda of want to play the Rouge Squadron games and my copy of Killer 7 but I doubt that might not be happening!

[NKF98]

the FX-8350 can play most games if you push it to like 4.8 or higher. Rogue Squadron 2/3 are the most demanding games out there for Dolphin, even some of the optimal CPUs have a hard time playing it. RS is a no-go for that system