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Will this cpu be good enough for dolphin?
12-18-2011, 01:19 AM
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Will a Celeron G540 be fast enough to emulate Zelda Twilight Princess on fullspeed?
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12-18-2011, 01:39 AM
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Not even close.
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12-18-2011, 01:40 AM
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Which processor will be?
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12-18-2011, 02:51 AM
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Last generations i7 or the newer Sandy Bridge i5/i7 processors is almost a must if you want to come close running that game as near full speed as possible and that is with DSP LLE and EFB to RAM included.
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12-18-2011, 03:36 PM
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Quote:Not even close.

I'm going to have to disagree. To run twilight princess at fullspeed most of the time (obviously hyrule field and other very large areas will always be a problem) you need a core 2 duo/core 2 quad @ 2.8GHz or higher.

The celeron G540 is a sandy bridge cpu clocked at 2.5GHz. It differs from a core i3 in the following ways:
-slightly lower clock rate
-lower memory speed (1066MHz instead of 1333MHz)
-integrated gpu features such as quicksync disabled
-no HT
-2MB L3 cache instead of 3MB

None of those will decrease dolphins performance in any significant way. It will perform about the same as a sandy bridge core i3 at 2.5GHz as far as dolphin is concerned. Which means it should outperform a core 2 quad @ 3.0GHz as far as dolphin is concerned. Which makes it fast enough for twilight princess.

The word celeron alone does not = slow. Modern sandy bridge celerons perform surprisingly well in benchmarks.
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12-18-2011, 04:15 PM
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I'll have to disagree with you disagreeing. Twilight princess needs a better CPU than you give it credit for (even if you leave out Hyrule Field). He's not going to get full speed in many other areas of the game as well.

(12-18-2011, 03:36 PM)NaturalViolence Wrote: The word celeron alone does not = slow. Modern sandy bridge celerons perform surprisingly well in benchmarks.

What are you implying here, that I took one look at the word "Celeron" and didn't bother to take any of the actual facts about this CPU into account?

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12-18-2011, 04:29 PM (This post was last modified: 12-18-2011, 04:30 PM by NaturalViolence.)
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My Q6600 @ 3.2GHz seems to be doing fine. Only a couple spots in the entire game (3 maybe 4) didn't run at fullspeed. And with the exception of hyrule field all of those spots ran pretty close to fullspeed. I would expect similar performance from a G540. So "not even close" is not the answer I would give him.
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