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How Are My Specs - Kurausukun - 09-07-2014
So I've used Dolphin for a while with no real performance issues at all, but I'm curious where my specs fall on the spectrum--mainly, how good are my CPU and GPU for Dolphin, which is more likely to be a bottleneck, and maybe, if I wanted to squeeze just a little more performance out of Dolphin, what my options are. I don't feel like copy-pasting my specs here, they're all on my profile.
RE: How Are My Specs - yl-smash - 09-07-2014
You have fairly high end specs for Dolphin. Unless you want 4x IR + AA in games, CPU will always be bottleneck.
RE: How Are My Specs - KHg8m3r - 09-07-2014
Yes, the CPU is usually what bottlenecks you in Dolphin. The GPU is used for making the game look nicer by increasing IR/AA/AF.
Using either Intel XTU or ThrottleStop can help keep you in max turbo mode to try and eliminate and CPU lag
RE: How Are My Specs - arcticmediagaming - 09-08-2014
I have the same CPU in my laptop and got the GT740M and I play everything full speed internal res 2.5
I use Intel XTU to undervolt my cpu -90mv offset
( runs around 5 degress less, set my multipliers to 32x to achieve 3.2GHZ constant on all cores)not that it matters since dolphin uses 2 cores but it helps keeping my cpu nice and cool
but yea cpu is the bottleneck but hey look at it on the brightside you can play withouth any problems