(03-20-2015, 12:34 AM)TheReaper30 Wrote:(03-03-2015, 03:39 PM)F3TiSH Wrote: Best option would be g3258 and some cheap motherboard that supports it.
I found on ebay a cheap Intel Core2 Duo CPU E8600 (6M Cache) 3.33Hhz, 1333 Mhz which fits my socket type which is the LGA775, will this CPU improve my fps on dolphin for most games including this one ?
It will improve the fps, but not as much as you seem to need. When overclocked, the g3258 can be 2x as fast as that 3.33 GHz Core 2 Duo, because you can easily run it at 4.x Ghz and it's faster than a Core 2 Duo at the same clock speed.
If you insist of not upgrading your mainboard, please look into either overlocking or taking a quad core. I can't tell you how much a Core 2 Quad will be faster at the same Ghz, but it should be noticable. So maybe 15-20%?
If you go and buy that 3.33 Ghz Core 2 Duo:
Hmm, 1333 Mhz FSB Speed? If you have DDR2 800 RAM, i'd try to overlock the FSB with that from 333 to 400, so the cpu is clocked at 4 Ghz. This overlock should be possible without much hassle, because you can reduce the ram multiplier to 2, so it runs at 800 speed again.(overclocking the ram causes issues!) So 4 Ghz compared to 2.6 Ghz from your old cpu, that would be a nice speedup. My old E6750 was a 1333 FSB cpu, and i could overclock it from 2.66 Ghz to 3.2 Ghz this way. But my 4.2 Ghz g3258 is soo much better than that was.