Using British website PC Specialist to build a PC for me, pretty much almost set on the specs now. Here are the core components (the rest is not necessary), I was just wondering (as a note, for all the games listed, I am hoping for playback that is not laggy, and is smooth etc... good FPS)
1) Primarily, how well will this run Gamecube games? On my current rig for example, Mario Kart plays fine but Metroid Prime, Paper Mario etc are laggy even with the recommended settings. So as an example, how would
Mario Kart
Metroid Prime
Resident Evil
Paper Mario
etc
Run?
2) Any chance of it playing Wii stuff well?
Twilight Princess
Wii Fit
Super Mario Galaxy
Processor (CPU)
AMD FX-4350 Quad Core CPU (4.3/4.2GHZ - 4MB CACHE/AM3+)
Motherboard
ASUS® M5A97 (DDR3, USB3.0, 6Gb/s)
Memory (RAM)
8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz, X.M.P (2 x 4GB KIT)
Graphics Card
2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 660 - 2 x DVI, HDMI, - 3D Vision Ready
Just want to make fully sure.
Nope. AMD processors are just not strong enough for a lot of games with certain Dolphin settings. For best results, get an Intel 4670K, 3570K or 2500K and overclock it.
Thank you very much. Asides from the processor, will the rest of the specs be fine?
Yep, just replace your Motherboard and CPU and you're good to go. Also, don't forget to get a decent CPU cooler if you plan to overclock.
Thank you very much for your help
If you really want a nice game play experience get a high rated over clock board. Under water cooling for the extreme clocks or a really decent cooler for 1g over clocks. If you are not ready for haswell the ivy and sandy bridges are still doing well. I have hit 4.7 on a 3570k on air with a ASRock Z77 Extreme4.
If you get
any Z87 board and the i5 4670K, it's as good as any other board, in terms of overclocking, due to the fact that the VRM has now been moved to the CPU for Haswell chips.
Also, if you're in the UK, especially if you're within driving distance of Bolton (so you can pick up and avoid postage fees) you may find scan computers pretty reasonably priced, and as they have good customer service and returns policy etc, they're what I and everyone I know uses.
For Dolphin, if you want a prebuilt system, their G35i is probably your best bet. This one comes pre-overclocked (they used to offer it at stock clocks too for quite a bit cheaper, then you could have overclocked it yourself for free, but, alas, this is no longer the case). If you do go for them, the link is
http://www.scan.co.uk/value-systems
(08-24-2013, 06:49 AM)AnyOldName3 Wrote: [ -> ]If you get any Z87 board and the i5 4670K, it's as good as any other board, in terms of overclocking, due to the fact that the VRM has now been moved to the CPU for Haswell chips.
I find this hard to believe (bad word to use? XD), source? What I mean by that is that, that isn't the only thing that would affect how well overclocking works is it?
Until you need the board to be waterproof, have hookup points for your own voltmeters, and have the option to watercool the chipset (which is pointless unless the ambient temperature is ridiculous), they're all the same. Other than these really expensive features, the only real differences are audio chipset, number of HDDs that can be attached, number of cards that can be put in Crossfire/SLI, buolt in wireless and bluetooth, and whether everything looks like a dragon. None of these affect overclocking in any way.
ExtremeDude2 Wrote:source?
Logic. But if you want actual data, here.
900 years on google search:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/z87-...82-25.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/z87-...24-30.html
The variation is extremely minimal unless you have a completely garbage board from ECS. Unless you are going for competitive level overclocks there is absolutely no reason to spend more money on z87 boards under the assumption that it will improve your overclocking. Because it won't.
ExtremeDude2 Wrote:What I mean by that is that, that isn't the only thing that would affect how well overclocking works is it?
No but it's a pretty damn big factor. And most of the other important components like the clock generator (PLL) and memory controller were already moved onto the cpu die ages ago so this is kind of the final nail in the coffin so to speak. This is likely one of the reasons why Intel artificially restricted cpu multiplier unlocking to the more expensive chipsets. Otherwise overclockers wouldn't have bothered buying high end boards.
ulao Wrote:If you are not ready for haswell the ivy and sandy bridges are still doing well.
Why would someone not be ready for haswell? That makes no sense. There is no advantage in him using sandy/ivy bridge instead of haswell.