Typical "can I run it" thread. Bear with me.

[RogerFVB]

(04-27-2015, 03:09 PM)Jhonn Wrote: Personal experience here, my current laptop has a CPU that is somewhat weak or equal the one you're getting, Ivy Bridge i7 at 3.2GHz with Turbo Boost -- however I have 4 physical cores while the low power i7's has only 2 cores, not sure if this changes anything, especially in Dolphin. I have finished both Paper Mario TTYD and Super Paper Mario in this computer and I can say these games are lightweight and should run fullspeed with that computer too.

The only issue you may get here is Bounding Box emulation: Paper Mario games use and abuse of this feature for some graphical effects and it can give you some performance hits depending of the scenario. I'm not completely sure but at the moment Dolphin can emulate bounding box either by hardware (fast and lightweight) or by software (needs a lot of CPU power). The last thing I read (some Pull Request at GitHub I think), bounding box emulation doesn't work with Intel HD Graphics and that would give you a performance hit since it would fall back to software emulation but if you use a compatible GPU you shouldn't have any performance issue and the games should run fine and smooth...

Edit: nevermind, just saw the laptp you plan buying has an nVidia GPU, it's not the fastest (in fact it may be slower than Intel HD 4400 in some scenarios) but it should fully support hardware bounding box emulation. Paper mario games will run fullspeed then, don't worry

While lurking in other threads I heard you're also from Brazil. Always funny to find someone from here online that has actual good English skills.

Great to hear that CPU is actually useful. Earlier today I found another laptop with reasonable pricing, the only problem is finding somewhere to buy it from (almost all stores are sold-out). It's the Samsung 550P5C-AD1, and it's a bit better than the other one I mentioned:

i7 3630QM 2.40 GHz - 3.40GHz Turbo, 6 MB L3 Cache
GeForce GT 630m (better benchmark than 710m)

Still studying what to buy though, after looking around I found some complaints about this one as well (no SSD, bad quality screen). But the processor seems capable for what I want.

I suppose the only problem left is the overheating. In the other thread I saw someone mentioning how it brings the hardware to a slow death. Can this problem be solved by using a regular cooler table? Or do I absolutely need something such as the Arctic MX-4 to be safe?

Edit: Yes, from what I've heard it's better if it has 4 cores, I could be wrong but to be safe I don't think I will stick to the 2 cores one anymore.