Dolphin, the GameCube and Wii emulator - Forums

(02-23-2016, 07:38 AM)helios747 Wrote: [ -> ]btw, I like to use pcpartpicker.com as they aggregate many online retailers so you get the lowest price.

Please don't get that PSU. Please refer to this list. http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html

Cheap PSUs are really risky to run because if they suddenly mis-regulate power to your system or they fail, you run a huge risk of breaking every other component in your system. And CPUs and GPUs are both very expensive, and very delicate.

That build is okay, I would go with 2x4gb sticks of memory so you're getting dual channel going.

Here's a quick build I threw together.

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/bMHdpg

Note that I did not include a case or storage, as that's really just personal taste and up to you.

Also note that this is a Skylake build with a nvidia 950 card rather than a 7xx, which bumps the cost a little because of a current gen GPU and DDR4 RAM, but not too badly, I think. Again, I didn't put too much thought into this, just got you some quality parts.

admin89 might want to chime in if the skylake Pentium CPU I picked won't overclock. I think it will? I know the haswells do.

EDIT: I'm stupid. I didn't notice that you wanted a $300 build. I'll revise this build in a couple hours when I get home. Sorry.

Thank you for the information. I'll just eat the extra cost and go with this PSU since Corsair is a reputable brand.

Also is there any major benefit to getting a 950 over a 750ti? I thought that Dolphin was much more CPU based then GPU.

I think that one can't be overclocked, as Intel blocked non-K Skylake overclocking :/ (unless you can get a motherboard with an old BIOS and microcode)

Again. Refer to that PSU tier list. That Corsair PSU is pretty much bottom tier. I listed a good PSU in the build I provided.

Corsair can make good PSUs. The CX series are not one of them.

I advise against the H81 board, because it's not a proper overclock supported by Intel.

For a budget build, a H81 is fine especially if you are not stuck with Windows 10, but yeah it's not officially supported and a Z97 would probably overclock better.

(02-23-2016, 11:04 AM)helios747 Wrote: [ -> ]http://pcpartpicker.com/p/nyxXTW

Awesome!  Thank you so much for your help.  Will this throw just about whatever I throw at it?

Also, does that motherboard make that big of a difference?  I was hoping to keep it small and it is a Full sized ATX MoBo.  Would a Micro-ATX like this work?

That CPU will be able to run pretty much everything at full speed (and you can overclock it), and that GPU is powerful enough to let you run games with enhancements and still at full speed!

For the motherboard, I'll let others answer as said above, I have a H81-P33 which is a MicroATX board, but that may not be the best for overclocking CPUs (even though it works absolutely fine, it's not official).

That mobo you listed will work fine, OP.

Would this build benefit from a GTX 960 over a GTX 750ti? Like, would it be able to also run modern games (like Ark: Survival Evolved) as well as Dolphin games?