I have an old laptop and a old desktop. I have used Dolphin on the laptop before but not the desktop, laptop was mine, desktop was son's.
My understanding is that the clock speed is more important for Dolphin emulator as it only uses 2 cores (wanting to run GameCube games mainly Mario kart Double Dash).
The clock speed for both is the same but the i5 has a slightly higher boost. I'm wondering if there would be much difference? Does the boost speed even matter?
The old desktop has a i5 8400, 8 GB of DDR-4 2400 RAM (going to add another 8GB if this is the better PC to use for emulation), SSD and HDD (not sure of sizes but more than plenty for what is needed) Nvidia GTX 1060 3GB graphics card. Currently running Windows 11.
The laptop has a i7 7700HQ, 16 GB of DDR-4 2400 RAM, I think a 500GB SSD and 1TB HDD, Nvidia GTX 1060 6 GB but only runs Windows 10 (considering Linux as can't upgrade officially upgrade to Windows 11).
If there's not much difference then I might go with the laptop as I plan on hooking up to TV in living room so it would fit nicer. Also don't want to buy more RAM if not going to use the desktop.
My understanding is that the clock speed is more important for Dolphin emulator as it only uses 2 cores (wanting to run GameCube games mainly Mario kart Double Dash).
The clock speed for both is the same but the i5 has a slightly higher boost. I'm wondering if there would be much difference? Does the boost speed even matter?
The old desktop has a i5 8400, 8 GB of DDR-4 2400 RAM (going to add another 8GB if this is the better PC to use for emulation), SSD and HDD (not sure of sizes but more than plenty for what is needed) Nvidia GTX 1060 3GB graphics card. Currently running Windows 11.
The laptop has a i7 7700HQ, 16 GB of DDR-4 2400 RAM, I think a 500GB SSD and 1TB HDD, Nvidia GTX 1060 6 GB but only runs Windows 10 (considering Linux as can't upgrade officially upgrade to Windows 11).
If there's not much difference then I might go with the laptop as I plan on hooking up to TV in living room so it would fit nicer. Also don't want to buy more RAM if not going to use the desktop.