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Can my computer that I am building in the very near future emulate GameCube? The CPU is an AMD FX-6300, graphics card is a Sapphire Radeon R7 260x 2GB and with 8 GB of RAM.

(04-29-2014, 08:39 AM)Exoquatic Wrote: [ -> ]Can my computer that I am building in the very near future emulate GameCube? The CPU is an AMD FX-6300, graphics card is a Sapphire Radeon R7 260x 2GB and with 8 GB of RAM.

Posts like this are apt to get locked. You need to state what games you will attempt to play, as they all have their own hardware requirements. Keep in mind AMD processors have terrible single threaded performance so the 6300 will not be able to play many medium to more intensive games. Should be able to run lightweight games though. Much better off buying an i3 4130 for around the same price.

No, AMD CPUs do not have strong single-core speeds, which is what Dolphin needs. Go with an Intel i5-4670k and a Z87 motherboard.

The GPU is fine though

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(04-29-2014, 09:03 AM)yl-smash Wrote: [ -> ]

(04-29-2014, 08:39 AM)Exoquatic Wrote: [ -> ]Can my computer that I am building in the very near future emulate GameCube? The CPU is an AMD FX-6300, graphics card is a Sapphire Radeon R7 260x 2GB and with 8 GB of RAM.

Posts like this are apt to get locked. You need to state what games you will attempt to play, as they all have their own hardware requirements. Keep in mind AMD processors have terrible single threaded performance so the 6300 will not be able to play many medium to more intensive games. Should be able to run lightweight games though. Much better off buying an i3 4130 for around the same price.

Sorry! Don't lock this!

I don't know what I really want to play. Probably Battle for Bikini Bottom, Viewtiful Joe, hm...

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Is there anything I can do? I really can't afford to change the stuff inside, I'm on a very tight budget.
Can I somehow enable multi-core support? Make it rely more on the GPU?

Don't worry, you won't just get ban-hammered.

But yeah, those games may struggle on AMD

(04-29-2014, 09:06 AM)Exoquatic Wrote: [ -> ]Is there anything I can do? I really can't afford to change the stuff inside, I'm on a very tight budget.
Can I somehow enable multi-core support? Make it rely more on the GPU?

Like I said, the i3 4130 is the same price as the fx 6300 and will perform 10x better in Dolphin. In addition, the fx 6300 will only perform marginally better in multithreaded operations, about 15%, than the i3. Don't fall under the false assumption that clock speed/amount of cores = performance. The i3 is of the latest haswell architecture and despite it only having two cores it is 50% faster in single threaded operations and only 15% slower in mulithreaded.

And no you cannot enable more than 2 core support or make it rely more on the GPU. That's not how emulation works.

(04-29-2014, 09:40 AM)yl-smash Wrote: [ -> ]

(04-29-2014, 09:06 AM)Exoquatic Wrote: [ -> ]Is there anything I can do? I really can't afford to change the stuff inside, I'm on a very tight budget.
Can I somehow enable multi-core support? Make it rely more on the GPU?

Like I said, the i3 4130 is the same price as the fx 6300 and will perform 10x better in Dolphin. In addition, the fx 6300 will only perform marginally better in multithreaded operations, about 15%, than the i3. Don't fall under the false assumption that clock speed/amount of cores = performance. The i3 is of the latest haswell architecture and despite it only having two cores it is 50% faster in single threaded operations and only 15% slower in mulithreaded.

And no you cannot enable more than 2 core support or make it rely more on the GPU. That's not how emulation works.

Okay, I will consider an i3 but the problem is I need a different motherboard. I need a dirt cheap one, too. How does this one look?
http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/part/foxconn-...oard-h81mx
The size fits my case. The original mobo I was using was this one http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/part/biostar-...oard-a960d
Please help!!!

Any Micro ATX motherboard should fit in your case, like this one: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/part/msi-motherboard-h81mp33

Anyone with an H87 chipset (for the i3 mentioned here).

(04-29-2014, 10:06 AM)KHg8m3r Wrote: [ -> ]Any Micro ATX motherboard should fit in your case, like this one: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/part/msi-motherboard-h81mp33

Sadly that will not work, here's my setup so far so you can see.
http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/user/Exoquatic/saved/4w3F
As you can see, I need a slot for the Wi-Fi card...