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I assume you're planing to buy new PC , not just to upgrade graphic card , is that right ?
I thought you already had that dell optiplex 790 . Was I mistaken ?

Sorry I didn't explain it well it the first post, what I meant was, I was planning to buy a used PC off of eBay and was trying to get the best specs for the budget I have (around $230). Both of the options I listed above seem to be the best ones. The i5 option also is a full mini tower.

Then you should choose the PC that has a dx12 graphic card (Nvidia : GT or GTX 6xx/7xx/9xx , AMD : HD 7xxx/8xxx/2xx/3xx )
DX12 is 60% faster than Directx11/OpenGL . Dx12 requires Windows 10 , you can upgrade windows for free via windows update but you should do it now because that free upgrade won't last long
i5 2400 isn't really good for Dolphin . It would be fine if the GPU was GTX 650 , not GTX 550Ti

This is only an issue if they want to use D3D12.

OpenGL and D3D11 are still very well (And less buggy) backends that work fine. D3D12 wouldn't particularly help in most cases with their specs unless they want to go from 100 fps to 200. Well, when your game is running at 30 or 60, who cares. There is nothing wrong with a 2400. I've played on weaker without issue. As for the GPU, we run fine on a minimum of a 460 for HD resolutions. WITHOUT D3D12. So uh, yeah. Not to mention they would see almost comparable perf on OpenGL since they would be on nvidia anyways.

Also, stop throwing around numbers with D3D12 when 1, they're wrong. And 2, it entirely depends on the game.

*smashes head into desk* you massively overestimate our  requirements.

Quote:There is nothing wrong with a 2400. I've played on weaker system without issue.
*smashes head into desk* you massively overestimate our requirements.

While most games will run just fine on that CPU , demanding won't run well . That CPU clock speed is not high (3.1GHz) , CPU is based on old architechture : Sandy Bridge which is 30-35% slower than Haswell
In the past , I also played around with a similar CPU so i know it will not run demanding games well . Without dx12 , latest dolphin is much slower than old builds that i used before (also depending on the game but most games are slower)

Uh, Dolphin is a lot faster on the CPU in newer builds. GPU is slower but you can still run fine on a mid-range nvidia card from a few generations ago. Intel iGPUs got screwed.

Please... stop. You keep saying things that *really aren't true*

I'm actually not sure if you're aware of how Dolphin performs anymore.

EDIT: Anyways, I'm done arguing with dumb.

OP, that PC isn't ideal, but it'll work for a lot of games. Is building the PC yourself an option? If it is and you save enough money ($70ish more) you can get a system that will satisfy everybody in this thread.

Quote:Not to mention they would see almost comparable perf on OpenGL since they would be on nvidia anyways.

OpenGL is slightly faster than DX11 but still slower than DX12 on Nvidia GPU by 35% btw

What if I get a dual processor computer, would Dolphin use one core from each processor or 2 cores from one of them?

Dolphin does its work on mainly two threads. How the threads are scheduled and where depends on your OS.

Hi, sorry for "hijacking" this thread, but I since it's a similar subject, it's better than making a different one, right?

I'm getting a laptop soon and I'd like to know if it can manage to run commercial games (even if some concessions need to be made). Specs:

Intel i7 5500U Dual Core 2.4GHz (3.0GHz Turbo)
NVIDIA Geforce 820M 2GB
8GB DDR3L SDRAM

Thanks!