07-11-2014, 03:51 AM
Hi everyone, Ive been following the emulator scene closely, both PCSX2, Dolphin and others, and I recently got the Intel Pentium G3258 to experiment with, over the week I'll be testing the performance of the processor overclocked at 4.4GHz.
It's well known the Dolphin requires quite some CPU grunt to emulate games at full-speed, so i thought I'd give it a shot with the G3258.
I strongly believe this processor is the next big thing in the emulation scene, It's so affordable and performs really when you overclock it, and due to Dolphin and PCSX2 only using two cores to their fullest at the most It's likely the most affordable and best processor for emulation, period.
(I bought this processor for £50)
Hardware:
ROG Freedom
CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 @4.4GHz
Memory: 6GB 1333mhz DDR3
Motherboard: Asus Maximus Gene VII (Purchased for futureproofing for an i5 or i7 K of Devil's Canyon Haswell or Broadwell)
GPU: MSI GTX 760 Hawk @1280MHz core, 6808MHz memory (Onpar with a 670 at stock clocks)
PSU: Corsair CX600
My original thread on OCN: http://www.overclock.net/t/1500524/penti...nce-thread
Today I'll be testing the performance in Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Metroid Prime and uploading footage of the performance and I'll give the CPU benchmark for Dolphin a go, I haven't had much luck with it since it crashes whenever I try to launch the test, I've read up that it's likely recent Nvidia drivers which may be preventing it from working, If I do happen to get it working I'll give the benchmark a shot!
For Super Mario Galaxy 2 I'm running the latest stable build of Dolphin, 4.0.2.
Metroid Prime
When I find my Wind-Waker disc and other GC games I'll be sure to do videos with them on this processor, I've already covered quite a few PS2 games in my original thread if anybody is interested, including having this processor essentially "brute force" Shadow of the Colossus with ease and Zone of the Enders The 2nd Runner.
It's well known the Dolphin requires quite some CPU grunt to emulate games at full-speed, so i thought I'd give it a shot with the G3258.
I strongly believe this processor is the next big thing in the emulation scene, It's so affordable and performs really when you overclock it, and due to Dolphin and PCSX2 only using two cores to their fullest at the most It's likely the most affordable and best processor for emulation, period.
(I bought this processor for £50)
Hardware:
ROG Freedom
CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 @4.4GHz
Memory: 6GB 1333mhz DDR3
Motherboard: Asus Maximus Gene VII (Purchased for futureproofing for an i5 or i7 K of Devil's Canyon Haswell or Broadwell)
GPU: MSI GTX 760 Hawk @1280MHz core, 6808MHz memory (Onpar with a 670 at stock clocks)
PSU: Corsair CX600
My original thread on OCN: http://www.overclock.net/t/1500524/penti...nce-thread
Today I'll be testing the performance in Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Metroid Prime and uploading footage of the performance and I'll give the CPU benchmark for Dolphin a go, I haven't had much luck with it since it crashes whenever I try to launch the test, I've read up that it's likely recent Nvidia drivers which may be preventing it from working, If I do happen to get it working I'll give the benchmark a shot!
For Super Mario Galaxy 2 I'm running the latest stable build of Dolphin, 4.0.2.
Metroid Prime
When I find my Wind-Waker disc and other GC games I'll be sure to do videos with them on this processor, I've already covered quite a few PS2 games in my original thread if anybody is interested, including having this processor essentially "brute force" Shadow of the Colossus with ease and Zone of the Enders The 2nd Runner.