So I'm about to built a new PC I want to use for watching movies and emulation.
The PC gaming part is totally not important to me, since I got a dedicated Desktop for that. I did a lot of research in the last few days to see, which CPU/GPU combination is affordable and good enough to work with dolphin (of course I want to emulate other systems as well, but I think dolphin is the most ressource intense thing I want to run).
Here is HOW I want to run things on dolphin:
max. 1920x1080 (because it will be on an HD-TV, so there is no reason to scale it even further)
I also read that Xenoblade is a rather ressource heavy game on dolphin. And since I really want see this on on dolphin, I might as well take it as some sort of benchmark for my hardware.
So here is my list of stuff I want to order:
i5-3570K (out of the box 4x3.4GHz, but I already read that I can/should OC it to 4.X)
MSI Z77A-G43 (so I can actually OC the CPU)
Sapphire Radeon HD 7750
8GB Corsair 1600MHz CL9 (tried to find any information to see how hard dolphin is on the RAM but I didn't find anything)
Additionally I still have to find a BluRay-Drive as well as a hard drive (and a SSD drive for the OS itself).
Here are the things I wonder about:
What can I expect from this system?
Will things run smoothly? (Smoothly for me is 24-25fps, since I really don't need more (filmbuff here))
If the GPU is not strong enough, which GPU should I choose, so I don't spend MUCH much more and without having a GPU overkill.
The PC gaming part is totally not important to me, since I got a dedicated Desktop for that. I did a lot of research in the last few days to see, which CPU/GPU combination is affordable and good enough to work with dolphin (of course I want to emulate other systems as well, but I think dolphin is the most ressource intense thing I want to run).
Here is HOW I want to run things on dolphin:
max. 1920x1080 (because it will be on an HD-TV, so there is no reason to scale it even further)
I also read that Xenoblade is a rather ressource heavy game on dolphin. And since I really want see this on on dolphin, I might as well take it as some sort of benchmark for my hardware.
So here is my list of stuff I want to order:
i5-3570K (out of the box 4x3.4GHz, but I already read that I can/should OC it to 4.X)
MSI Z77A-G43 (so I can actually OC the CPU)
Sapphire Radeon HD 7750
8GB Corsair 1600MHz CL9 (tried to find any information to see how hard dolphin is on the RAM but I didn't find anything)
Additionally I still have to find a BluRay-Drive as well as a hard drive (and a SSD drive for the OS itself).
Here are the things I wonder about:
What can I expect from this system?
Will things run smoothly? (Smoothly for me is 24-25fps, since I really don't need more (filmbuff here))
If the GPU is not strong enough, which GPU should I choose, so I don't spend MUCH much more and without having a GPU overkill.