The 7770 is more expensive and harder to find on Canadian sites, yl-smash. Well, good ones, that is. Which is rather unfortunate, to say the least.
To answer your current question, Exoquatic, the AMD CPUs have low IPC (instructions per clock), and the older Intel processors have a mixture of lower IPC than newer Intel processors, and lack of a feature of Haswell that's been implemented into Dolphin already. The Haswell Pentiums/Celerons are perfectly fine, but I'd only ever recommend them if you don't have much money to spend. I mean, like, you'll be putting a GPU in that you already own, and you are just buying the CPU to fill the mobo while you save for a new CPU. At least an i3 if it's not just filler, because i3 has hyper-threading. Also, i5s have L3 caches and more hardware cores, but no hyperthreading, and i7s are i5s with hyperthreading and larger caches.
EDIT: Also, if you buy a Haswell i3, you'll be getting the performance of at least an Ivy i5 in most applications, if not more, for less money. And, of course, you're beating out AMD processors like my own, no question.
To answer your current question, Exoquatic, the AMD CPUs have low IPC (instructions per clock), and the older Intel processors have a mixture of lower IPC than newer Intel processors, and lack of a feature of Haswell that's been implemented into Dolphin already. The Haswell Pentiums/Celerons are perfectly fine, but I'd only ever recommend them if you don't have much money to spend. I mean, like, you'll be putting a GPU in that you already own, and you are just buying the CPU to fill the mobo while you save for a new CPU. At least an i3 if it's not just filler, because i3 has hyper-threading. Also, i5s have L3 caches and more hardware cores, but no hyperthreading, and i7s are i5s with hyperthreading and larger caches.
EDIT: Also, if you buy a Haswell i3, you'll be getting the performance of at least an Ivy i5 in most applications, if not more, for less money. And, of course, you're beating out AMD processors like my own, no question.
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