Dolphin, the GameCube and Wii emulator - Forums

Hello,
I would like to ask if Emulation is possible with the following Setup (HTPC).
I want to build me a Home Theater PC with the option to emulate some Wii and GameCube Games.
Is it possible?

CPU Intel I7 950 3,07GHz, Noctua CPU-Kühler, Asrock Mainboard,
6GB Ram, Grafikkarte PowerColor ATI Radeon 6870. USB 3.0

Why are you using an old CPU? Grab a G3258 and a Z97 board and it will overclock to around 4.4-4.7 on the stock Intel cooler, and will perform almost the same an i5-4690K/i7-4790K at the same speeds, for like $110 total.
Other than that, the GPU looks fine, and if the RAM is DDR3 it should be fine.

What games are you planning on playing?

(12-29-2014, 07:15 AM)KHg8m3r Wrote: [ -> ]Why are you using an old CPU? Grab a G3258 and a Z97 board and it will overclock to around 4.4-4.7 on the stock Intel cooler, and will perform almost the same an i5-4690K/i7-4790K at the same speeds, for like $110 total.
Other than that, the GPU looks fine, and if the RAM is DDR3 it should be fine.

What games are you planning on playing?

Sorry for my bad English.
I plan to build a HTPC but I haven't find a good Setup.
I want to watch Movies (Bluerays,3D etc.), Pictures,Live Streams etc with Kodi and I would like to emulate Wii & and GameCube Games with
Dolphin.
Although I want to play newer PC Games on High Resolution,but I don't have so much knowledge.
For Example Battlefield 4 or something like this.
But my Budget is limited by 450 Euro.

Edit : And this Setup?
1 x Toshiba DT01ACA 1TB, SATA 6Gb/s (DT01ACA100)
1 x Intel Pentium G3250, 2x 3.20GHz, boxed (BX80646G3250)
1 x Crucial Ballistix Sport DIMM Kit 8GB, DDR3-1600, CL9-9-9-24 (BLS2CP4G3D1609DS1S00)
1 x Sapphire Radeon R7 260X, 2GB GDDR5, DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort, lite retail (11222-17-20G)
1 x Gigabyte GA-H81N-D2H
1 x LG Electronics BH16NS40 schwarz, SATA, retail (BH16NS40.AUAR10B)
1 x Cooler Master Elite 110 schwarz, Mini-ITX (RC-110-KKN2)
1 x be quiet! System Power 7 400W ATX 2.31 (BN142)

Unfortunatly, what you chose was the G3250, and what it needs to be is the G3258, as that is the only one that can overclock. And you need a Z97 board, not a H81, to overclock.

I recommend this build:
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/wNQN99

CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor (£49.14 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: ASRock Z97M Anniversary Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£65.03 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: Corsair XMS3 8GB (4 x 2GB) DDR3-1333 Memory (£72.72 @ CCL Computers)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£35.94 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R7 260X 2GB Video Card (£85.99 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Aerocool DS Cube Black Edition Silent Cube MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£61.43 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£36.98 @ Novatech)
Optical Drive: LG UH12NS30 Blu-Ray Reader, DVD/CD Writer (£38.39 @ Aria PC)
Total: £445.62

(12-29-2014, 09:08 AM)KHg8m3r Wrote: [ -> ]Unfortunatly, what you chose was the G3250, and what it needs to be is the G3258, as that is the only one that can overclock. And you need a Z97 board, not a H81, to overclock.

I recommend this build:
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/wNQN99

CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor  (£49.14 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: ASRock Z97M Anniversary Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£65.03 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: Corsair XMS3 8GB (4 x 2GB) DDR3-1333 Memory  (£72.72 @ CCL Computers)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£35.94 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R7 260X 2GB Video Card  (£85.99 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Aerocool DS Cube Black Edition Silent Cube MicroATX Mini Tower Case  (£61.43 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£36.98 @ Novatech)
Optical Drive: LG UH12NS30 Blu-Ray Reader, DVD/CD Writer  (£38.39 @ Aria PC)
Total: £445.62

I've read that there exist some NON Z- boards that can OC the G3258; A google search on the board can tell you if it can work and there was a forum I found a while ago that had a comprehensive list of which boards worked and how high it could OC

EDIT: found it

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2389948

The only reason I don't recommend that is because Intel could push a patch that disables over clocking on non z97 boards

Just don't update your bios.

Not just bios, but Intel could push a patch on the operating system?

There's this thing called uninstalling updates. It's been possible for a while. With Linux you can just reverse the commit.

Non Z97/H97 board will need a bios update . New CPUs like G3258 , i5 4690k , i7 4790k will not run on old boards (h81,b85,h87,z87) without it
Asrock B85 Anniversary is exceptional though . It's cheap