Dolphin, the GameCube and Wii emulator - Forums

AMD FX-6300 Vishera 3.5GHz (4.1GHz Turbo) Socket AM3+ 95W Six-Core
GIGABYTE GA-78LMT-USB3 AM3+ AMD 760G USB 3.0 HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
GIGABYTE GV-R726XOC-1GD Radeon R7 260X 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 HDCP Ready Video Card
G.SKILL Value 8GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory
Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA
Windows 7 ultimate 64-bit

if not tell me what i need if i can i want to spend $500 or less

i want to run dolphin 4.0

Read this thread: https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-fu...ood-enough

Quad, Hexa and Octo-core CPUs are useless for Dolphin since it uses only 2 cores (3 with DSP on thread). Also, you may want to get a strong Intel CPU instead for better performance (like i5 4670K).

Actually, there is a small advantage to being able to handle background tasks when running Dolphin. In general, quad-core+ systems often experience minor boosts in performance (5% sounds right) over comparable dual-core systems when it comes to Dolphin. It's small enough to be insignificant practically, but objectively speaking having extra cores/threads around does help. If you believe the OpenMP texture decoder is anything but a placebo, then you might get speed ups there as well.