That Xeon is a Quad Core + HT . Dolphin uses 2 cores + 1 (if "DSP LLE on thread" is enabled)
When you play Dolphin , your Quad Core CPU has 2 free cores for background processing -> Speed up
But E8400 is still faster because its clock rate is higher (3.0 vs 2.5GHz)
When you play Dolphin , your Quad Core CPU has 2 free cores for background processing -> Speed up
But E8400 is still faster because its clock rate is higher (3.0 vs 2.5GHz)
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