Hi,
Apologies for yet another "is my PC good enough" thread but I'm somewhat confused as to how to improve my hardware (preferably at the lowest cost) for Dolphin and other emulators.
I've been happily surprised how well games play - cut scenes aren't great and some games are a bit jerky, but I wasn't expecting to be able to emulate much at all, but currently playing the likes of Mario Kart, Mario Strikers and Lego Star Wars really well.
It would be good however to improve the performance and I'm wondering what the easiest hardware upgrade would be and I'm assuming either CPU or GPU. I have an 1155 socket motherboard and didn't really want to upgrade that, but it has an i3-3220 processer, so there could be an upgrade there. From the Unofficial Benchmark thread (which has been useful) there doesn't seem to be many 3rd gen chips and even the i7-3770 is fairly low down compared to the others, so I'm wondering whether this would be much of an upgrade?
The alternative (not sure I can afford both straight away) would be a dedicated graphics card - I've always used the integrated Intel graphics - would this see much of an improvement? And as it's not something I've looked into, any recommendations for this (I guess it largely depends on budget!)?
Many thanks for any assistance
Apologies for yet another "is my PC good enough" thread but I'm somewhat confused as to how to improve my hardware (preferably at the lowest cost) for Dolphin and other emulators.
I've been happily surprised how well games play - cut scenes aren't great and some games are a bit jerky, but I wasn't expecting to be able to emulate much at all, but currently playing the likes of Mario Kart, Mario Strikers and Lego Star Wars really well.
It would be good however to improve the performance and I'm wondering what the easiest hardware upgrade would be and I'm assuming either CPU or GPU. I have an 1155 socket motherboard and didn't really want to upgrade that, but it has an i3-3220 processer, so there could be an upgrade there. From the Unofficial Benchmark thread (which has been useful) there doesn't seem to be many 3rd gen chips and even the i7-3770 is fairly low down compared to the others, so I'm wondering whether this would be much of an upgrade?
The alternative (not sure I can afford both straight away) would be a dedicated graphics card - I've always used the integrated Intel graphics - would this see much of an improvement? And as it's not something I've looked into, any recommendations for this (I guess it largely depends on budget!)?
Many thanks for any assistance