Dolphin, the GameCube and Wii emulator - Forums

so i am torn, i have a shuttle i found dumpster diving and i really want it to be able to play fortune street reliably, it started out pretty poorly using onboard graphics but i borrowed a card and noticed an immeddiate difference how ever its not enough.
Currently its a Shuttle XPC with 4 gigs of Corsair XMS2, a GeForce 240 with 1 gb of ddr5 (which is odd for that card) and a Athlon X2 240
Now i am wondering will i notice much improvment going from the...
Athlon II X2 240:
http://products.amd.com/en-us/DesktopCPU...e&f12=True
to
Phenom II X3 720 BE
http://products.amd.com/en-us/DesktopCPU...e&f12=True
no bios options to overclock in this tiny thing and from what i have read dolphin doesent utilize more than 2 cores, hence my question. Its going to come down to what is faster clock for clock if you ran them both with the same ammount of cores.

It will be slightly faster due to the extra core/better architecture

But those CPUs are still too slow for more demanding games which need LLE (e.g SMG1/2). This games need a Core i5-3570k @ 4.2GHz to run @ fullspeed. (If VBeam trick is used, stock speed may be enough)

Quote: a GeForce 240 with 1 gb of ddr5 (which is odd for that card)

GDDR5, not DDR5. DDR5 does not exist yet and will probably not exist until around 2020.

Like extreme said expect a small bump in performance. Enough to make it worth it if it's free but if you're paying for this upgrade than I would probably wait to upgrade to something more significant.