Quote:You're telling me that Dolphin would run Wii games at 60+ FPS with an i7 processor clocked at at least 2.0 GhzNot even close
i7 doesn't mean anything . Depending on the model you're talking about , First gen i7 is much slower than latest i5 . 2.0GHz is terribly slow for Dolphin
In fact , i3 4130 @ 3.4GHz blow i7 920 @ 3.8 out of water in our Dolphin Benchmark , not even i5 3570k @ 4.0GHz could beat it
The recommended CPU for Dolphin is i5 4670k @ 4.2GHz
Quote:I don't see how that's even possibleNo offence but i saw this alot :
Q : How to make my PC faster
A : Add more Ram
Lol , i really laugh my ass off . You guy should pay attention on other stuffs like GPU , CPU , SSD more than Ram
Let me ask you . Can you run Dolphin full speed with a Pentium 4 + 16GB of Ram ? More likely it not even run lol
You guy misunderstand how Ram work . More Ram you will be able to do more intensive multi-tasking without memory loss (like open 32 tabs in Chrome / Firefox /IE) or run Photoshop , encoder , microsoft office at the same time
Higher Ram bus speed can speed up your PC (DDR2 800MHz , DDR3 1333MHz , DDR3 1600MHz , DDR4 2400MHz) . However , don't expect it can make a big improvement in speed .
2GB Ram is good enough for Dolphin 32bit
4GB Ram is good enough for Dolphin 64bit
Quote:More like 2.4 GhzAgain . I know you're talking about latest i7 Haswell CPU . However , 2.4GHz Haswell i7 is not fast enough without Turbo Boost . I want to make it clear for newbie , I say i7 4700QM @ 3.2GHz
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