Quote:You sure bout that? You can get good i5 or even i7 laptops at this price. And my old pentium B950 $300 laptop runs pikmin 2 just fine. I think your over estimating just how intense dolphin actually is if your running no enhancements
I bought 3 multi-media laptop before . All of them run into overheating issue
The first one is i5 480M with discrete GPU Nvidia GT 540M . Since it has only 1 heatsink for both CPU and GPU , overheating is normal
I fixed it by disassembling the whole laptop , replacing thermal compound and adding more fan
I thought a discrete GPU would be too much for a cheap multi-media laptop . The second time , I aimed for a laptop that has no discrete GPU
I bought one for myself : i5 4300M (2.6->3.3GHz) + HD 4600 and one for my sister i5 560M + Intel HD .Surprise Surprise , both of them are not different from my first laptop . I fixed them by replacing the thermal compound though
So what is the problem ? The OEM thermal compound is crap , even MacBook pro's thermal compound is also crap
If you're confident in disassembling laptop then go ahead and buy
this one
I've been here since the beginning of the project . I've seen so many overheating laptop already , even gaming laptop are not exceptional ...
When your laptop overheats , your CPU will throttle down and turbo boost will be disabled .
Replacing thermal compound is the only way to fix overheating issue . Even so it did not work on thin laptop such as MacBook Air which has terrible cooling unit
Quote:And my old pentium B950 $300 laptop runs pikmin 2 just fine.
but most games don't run well , right ?
Quote:I think your over estimating just how intense dolphin actually is if your running no enhancements
Just take a look at
Dolphin CPU Benchmark (absolutely zero enhancement )
All low-end CPUs are slower than the real Wii . ULV is low end , as you can see i5 4200U is slower than the Real Wii and the Lenovo i7-4510U you posted is just slightly faster than i5 4200U
If your CPU is not faster than the Wii , How can you hope it could run most games well ?