Dolphin, the GameCube and Wii emulator - Forums

Basically, I have an i5-2500k, and I feel the only thing I really actually use/need it for is Dolphin, and maybe Vegas, but I'm pretty sure AMD CPU's are just as good in Vegas. I've been debating selling this for a while (and unfortunately, it's lost some value because of that) If you couldn't tell, I have a motherboard with an FX-4350 in it just sitting around, and honestly I'm pretty sure I'd barely notice a difference. My question is, how big of an impact would it make on my Dolphin experience? I'm not sure I play too many intensive games except maybe a few, but shouldn't I still be able to play a lot if not all of them at full speed? My other specs are in my signature, and here's a list of games I have dumped for Dolphin for performance questions, like if certain games would be impacted, if any.

Welp, I guess I didn't realize how many games I had, lols. I'm sure some of them people aren't too sure about either, which is totally fine.

I think your current CPU will allow playing SMG and SMG2, as well as LoZ: TP and SS, and Xenoblade at reasonable settings while the AMD CPU probably will not. The IPC of that CPU is significantly lower than your 2500k. Do you have it overclocked?

Edit: yes, you do. Sell the AMD gear, I say.

Yeah, if you downgrade to the other CPU, your performance is going to go down the drain. Honestly, because the CPU market is so weird, you should probably just sell the AMD processor.

You're going to lose a lot of general performance going from a really good Intel Processor to a mediocre AMD one. But, if you need the money, I'm not sure that matters.

Ness Wrote:but I'm pretty sure AMD CPU's are just as good in Vegas

No. Especially not in your case. Expect roughly a 1/3 drop in performance in all applications including dolphin if you downgrade. I would sell the AMD gear instead like rokclimb suggested.