I currently have an HP Pavilion Elite e9220f
Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 910(2.6GHz)
Cache Per Processor: 2MB L2 Cache
Memory: 8GB DDR3
Hard Drive: 1TB 5400 RPM SATA
Video Card: NVIDIA Geforce GT240 (I replaced the ATI card that came with it)
I'm running dolphin 3.0-95 compiled from source on a Gentoo 64 bit operating system
I cannot get Twilight Princess to run smoothly, as soon as I leave my treehouse and walk into the village I get slowdowns, only 40-70%. Seems to be the same whether I have the resolution at 1080p or the lowest setting. Other games work fairly well, donkey kong country returns runs fast enough, even ssbb runs well enough. Nothing ever runs 100% all of the time though.
With my setup the first things I notice are the slow hard drive speed, a mediocre at best graphics card, not a current gen processor...
What should my first upgrade be? If it should be the processor, my motherboard is a AMD 785G, so I am limited to whatever would work with that (would intel i3,5,7's work?)
Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 910(2.6GHz)
Cache Per Processor: 2MB L2 Cache
Memory: 8GB DDR3
Hard Drive: 1TB 5400 RPM SATA
Video Card: NVIDIA Geforce GT240 (I replaced the ATI card that came with it)
I'm running dolphin 3.0-95 compiled from source on a Gentoo 64 bit operating system
I cannot get Twilight Princess to run smoothly, as soon as I leave my treehouse and walk into the village I get slowdowns, only 40-70%. Seems to be the same whether I have the resolution at 1080p or the lowest setting. Other games work fairly well, donkey kong country returns runs fast enough, even ssbb runs well enough. Nothing ever runs 100% all of the time though.
With my setup the first things I notice are the slow hard drive speed, a mediocre at best graphics card, not a current gen processor...
What should my first upgrade be? If it should be the processor, my motherboard is a AMD 785G, so I am limited to whatever would work with that (would intel i3,5,7's work?)