(10-25-2015, 12:38 PM)Irrelevant_pelican Wrote: Hm... Then I guess I'm screwed. So the only people who can get Dolphin to run at 1080p are all over clocking? Even if I got a new CPU that did 4.4 GHz, it wouldn't matter?
No, everyone is not. I can run 1080p on a 3570K at stock (which is 3.2Ghz or 3.3Ghz, not quite sure), whereas my current 4690 which runs at the same 3.5Ghz as yours runs lighter games at 4K no problem. I have to say that I haven't played SMG so I can't offer any direct comparison, but I'd imagine that for example Xenoblade is a bit tougher on the CPU than Galaxy.
For all that's holy and unholy, don't upgrade to a 4790. That's just wasting money without any real improvement to performance. The only real upgrade that should be considered is to a 6700K but even that is a waste as your current CPU should perform better than fine. There is just something really weird going on that holds your PC back.
As to actually solving the problem, I think you haven't posted the specs of your PSU yet. It might be that the whole power supply has actually stuck itself in low-power mode. Someone already mentioned MSI Afterburner; you should download it (with RivaTuner) and post both your CPU and GPU load levels as well as your power draw.