Will my new hardware do well?

[kinkinkijkin]

(01-03-2014, 12:50 PM)NaturalViolence Wrote: Wind waker is a pretty lightweight game. You should be fine.

I would like to nitpick a bit now if I may:

kinkinkijkin Wrote:I bought a new motherboard in the hopes of unlocking this CPU into a Phenom II X4

That can't be done since you can't unlock the L3 cache as far as I know. The best you can do is unlock it to an athlon II X4.

This specific processor has been reported, in a lot of cases, to be able to have an L3 cache and two extra cores unlocked. It'd be around a Phenom II X4 925 if I had been successful, but I, unfortunately, wasn't.

EDIT: I was about to say that you were more than right, and the game ran smooth as butter, but for some reason, the longer I play wind waker, the slower it performs, even though that never happened before. While the opening camera-thing used to run 15-20 FPS for me at native IR with no AA or AF, and multiple speedhacks, It ran at a constant 31 FPS this time, just with a few hiccups. Then, after talking to grandma, I go back out onto the island, where, before going in, I had 28-31 FPS, but I now had 15-25 FPS with constant hiccuping, which is far worse than I had before.

I'm using 4-588.