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Need Help With Configuration - Ceraphyn - 05-19-2013

I was wondering if anyone had any tips on getting Wii games to rub at 100%
Heres the Specs

Windows 7 X64
Radeon R7850 HD 2gb Card
8 Gb Ram
Western digital 250gb Sata drive

any help would be great been having some lag and sound issues on Xenoblade

RE: Need Help With Configuration - admin89 - 05-19-2013

Quote: if anyone had any tips on getting Wii games to rub at 100%
Can you return the FX-4100 and your current mobo for a refund ? I'm serious !

RE: Need Help With Configuration - Starscream - 05-19-2013

(05-19-2013, 12:08 AM)Ceraphyn Wrote: I was wondering if anyone had any tips on getting Wii games to rub at 100%
Heres the Specs

Windows 7 X64
Radeon R7850 HD 2gb Card
8 Gb Ram
Western digital 250gb Sata drive

any help would be great been having some lag and sound issues on Xenoblade

It depends on the game. The faster your processor is, the better the chances are that a game will run at full speed. If you're having an issue getting a game to run at full speed, the chances are excellent that your hardware isn't good enough.

RE: Need Help With Configuration - Ceraphyn - 05-19-2013

(05-19-2013, 12:12 AM)admin89 Wrote:
Quote:if anyone had any tips on getting Wii games to rub at 100%
Can you return the FX-4100 and your current mobo for a refund ? I'm serious !
Whats wrong with the processor i have? Im about to upgrade to the 8 core FX-8350
(05-19-2013, 12:12 AM)Starscream Wrote:
(05-19-2013, 12:08 AM)Ceraphyn Wrote: I was wondering if anyone had any tips on getting Wii games to rub at 100%
Heres the Specs

Windows 7 X64
Radeon R7850 HD 2gb Card
8 Gb Ram
Western digital 250gb Sata drive

any help would be great been having some lag and sound issues on Xenoblade

It depends on the game. The faster your processor is, the better the chances are that a game will run at full speed. If you're having an issue getting a game to run at full speed, the chances are excellent that your hardware isn't good enough.
Its a 3.6 quad core im about to upgrade to the fx 8350 4.0 8 core proc, think that well help at all?

RE: Need Help With Configuration - admin89 - 05-19-2013

Quote:Whats wrong with the processor i have?
Your CPU base on Bulldozer architecture . It performs well with multi-threaded application , Dual Core application like Dolphin will run really slow because Bulldozer single threaded performance is so terrible that people have to call it as "Faildozer"
Quote:I'm about to upgrade to the 8 core FX-8350
You should get an i5 3570k @ 4.5GHz (overclocked) + Asrock Z77 Extreme 4 for demanding games
FX 8350 @ 4.0 is slower than i5 2400 @ 3.4GHz in Dolphin
Dolphin Benchmark

RE: Need Help With Configuration - Ceraphyn - 05-19-2013

(05-19-2013, 12:27 AM)admin89 Wrote:
Quote:Whats wrong with the processor i have?
Your CPU base on Bulldozer architecture . It performs well with multi-threaded application , Dual Core application like Dolphin will run really slow because Bulldozer single threaded performance is so terrible that people have to call it as "Faildozer"
Quote:I'm about to upgrade to the 8 core FX-8350
You should get an i5 3570k @ 4.5GHz (overclocked) + Asrock Z77 Extreme 4 for demanding games
FX 8350 @ 4.0 is slower than i5 2400 @ 3.4GHz in Dolphin
Dolphin Benchmark
Easily done, Will that effect my normal pc gaming because i can smash pretty much any game on high to ultra settings with the build i have

RE: Need Help With Configuration - admin89 - 05-19-2013

Most PC games don't take advantage of 8 cores CPU . i5 3570k destroy FX 8350 in most games
However , there are a few games like battlefield 3which can take advantage of 8 cores FX 8350 -> FX 8350 beat i5 3570k
Quote: i can smash pretty much any game on high to ultra settings with the build i have
FX 4300 @ 3.8GHz is newer and faster than FX 4100 @ 3.6GHz but FX-4300 still be beaten by its predecessor Phenom II x4 3.2GHz in most benchmark (except single theaded benchmark)
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/700?vs=88
Phenom II x4 won't stand a chance against first gen Core i5
i5 3570k is 3rd gen

Edit : As for Xenoblade , you can use my setting and Dolphin version (Post # 126) . though i can't promise you will have good result as mine (FX 4100 is slower than i5 480M in single-threaded performance )