I gotta ya. And it makes sense. Depends on the game too, even in Dolphins case. Like last night I made a video of gameplay for All-Star Baseball 2002 using Camtasia Recorder. I just set the Emulator to use single core mode, freeing up a core for Camtasia. Played fullspeed through the entire recording process. Tried to do the same thing with NFL 2K3 and it got bogged down without Dolphin using both cores and even still didn't play fullspeed while I was recording.
I was eyeing up those Hexa-Core CPUs AMD has out. Fairly cheap for 6 cores. Intel has them too but want to charge you $899 for one where as AMD will charge you at the least $179.
Or I could get a Athlon X2 5000+ for dirt cheap and the appropriate Mobo and unlock the other 2 cores and 6MB L3 cache.
Even a Tri-Core should work in theory right? I definitely need 2 cores for the emu and at least one for the capture software.
I was eyeing up those Hexa-Core CPUs AMD has out. Fairly cheap for 6 cores. Intel has them too but want to charge you $899 for one where as AMD will charge you at the least $179.
Or I could get a Athlon X2 5000+ for dirt cheap and the appropriate Mobo and unlock the other 2 cores and 6MB L3 cache.
Even a Tri-Core should work in theory right? I definitely need 2 cores for the emu and at least one for the capture software.