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kjin20

Was suggested this: http://www.googlebb.magicmicro.com/smore...p?iid=4212

from the pcsx2 people. Trying to have a pc that's terribly expensive but will run dolphin and pcsx2 well, my ps2 and wii may be on their way out.

This pc look decent to you guys for dolphin? I'd like to run gc TP and muramasa mainly, maybe brawl also? I know TP is demanding, what do you guys think? Trying to not spend over 700 on it, just as a pc, not buying monitor or anything else.
>no graphics card

Are you nuts?
Recommended specs:

i5 3570K (i7 3770K will also do, but is more expensive, and dolphin won't benefit from it)
decent Z77 motherboard
decent CPU cooler
4GB+ DDR3 RAM
decent GPU (just don't buy two poor GPUs and SLI/Crossfire them, as Dolphin can't split the graphics thread, so only one will be used)
Windows 7 64 Bit
EVGA GTX 650 (100$) as decent GPU
But you can get better ones if you plan on doing high end PC gaming aswell.
700$ budget is very limited ... Nvidia GTX 660Ti is impossible to build unless you downgrade the CPU to i3