Hello Dolphin Community!
I need some help determining which CPU to use. I have both in my possession and I want to use the one that will work best for Dolphin.
My E6300 gets up to 3.6ghz easily. I bet I can even get 3.7-3.8 out of it.
My Q6600 maxes at around 3.2/3.3Ghz. I will run both at their max.
So far I have been using the E6300 because I thought pure clock speed mattered more, but now I am starting to wonder if the higher cache and ability to use more than 2 cores for sound makes my Q6600 a better choice.
Obviously the real answer is to throw both away and get a 2500k, but my budget needs to go to upgrading my GPU first so I have to work with what I got for now. And I will be honest if they are close or the Q6600 OCed still isn't enough to even do LLE sound then I would love to know that too.
Thank you in advance for any consideration.
I need some help determining which CPU to use. I have both in my possession and I want to use the one that will work best for Dolphin.
My E6300 gets up to 3.6ghz easily. I bet I can even get 3.7-3.8 out of it.
My Q6600 maxes at around 3.2/3.3Ghz. I will run both at their max.
So far I have been using the E6300 because I thought pure clock speed mattered more, but now I am starting to wonder if the higher cache and ability to use more than 2 cores for sound makes my Q6600 a better choice.
Obviously the real answer is to throw both away and get a 2500k, but my budget needs to go to upgrading my GPU first so I have to work with what I got for now. And I will be honest if they are close or the Q6600 OCed still isn't enough to even do LLE sound then I would love to know that too.
Thank you in advance for any consideration.