05-06-2011, 02:46 PM
Its completely dependant on which games you're playing. From what i've noticed GC games take a lot less muscle to play.
I'd say the bare minium that you can get by with and this is for 100% on almost every game is
OS choice thats best is win 7 64 that way you can truly use your dual core cpu.
2.2-2.5ghz Dual CPU with 2Mb of L2 cache and preferably on that has an L3 cache
2GB of ram on XP, 4GB of ram on windows 7 Dual channel is possable and the higher the clock speed the better. So if you can use 1333 use it.
ATI 1700 or a Geforce 8600. These cards are fucking seriously old but the absolute lowest i'd recomend for Wii or ps2 emulators. More modern cards really dont give to much of an advantage. Dolphin is a CPU whore and generally doesnt give two shits about your gpu as long as its not bottle necking the emulator.
Thats pretty much it.
If you're on laptops you're shit out of luck you'd have to buy one with gaming in mind in the first place. Also you really have to buy an expensive as shit laptop if you wanna do these emulators. You're looking at $1000. And while that doesnt seem like much laptops are deposable items these days. Dont expect that laptop to last you more than 3 years. Hence why everyone buys shitty netbooks now adays and throws them away when they break.
I'd say the bare minium that you can get by with and this is for 100% on almost every game is
OS choice thats best is win 7 64 that way you can truly use your dual core cpu.
2.2-2.5ghz Dual CPU with 2Mb of L2 cache and preferably on that has an L3 cache
2GB of ram on XP, 4GB of ram on windows 7 Dual channel is possable and the higher the clock speed the better. So if you can use 1333 use it.
ATI 1700 or a Geforce 8600. These cards are fucking seriously old but the absolute lowest i'd recomend for Wii or ps2 emulators. More modern cards really dont give to much of an advantage. Dolphin is a CPU whore and generally doesnt give two shits about your gpu as long as its not bottle necking the emulator.
Thats pretty much it.
If you're on laptops you're shit out of luck you'd have to buy one with gaming in mind in the first place. Also you really have to buy an expensive as shit laptop if you wanna do these emulators. You're looking at $1000. And while that doesnt seem like much laptops are deposable items these days. Dont expect that laptop to last you more than 3 years. Hence why everyone buys shitty netbooks now adays and throws them away when they break.
