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Does Dolphin fully compatible for 5960x? - Aleksei.F.DRGNV - 10-30-2014
My current PC died from overheating/defects. i decided to spend some money on new stuffs
Yeah i know, dolphin only using 2 cores
My plan is to Overclock just 2 cores when playing Dolphin
(Might be) Future Spec
-i7 5960x
-Rampage V (or X99 deluxe)
-GTX 780 (the VGA survived)
-Windows 7 ulti
Couple questions before i buy them
Any of you guys using Haswell-E?
Is dolphin experiencing some problem with them?
RE: Does Dolphin fully compatible for 5960x? - omega_rugal - 10-31-2014
Dolphin works with any x86 or x64 CPU...
if Haswell-E means "enthusiasm" edition, then yes, it works...
RE: Does Dolphin fully compatible for 5960x? - DJBarry004 - 10-31-2014
Short answer: Should be enough, but we really can´t tell which possible advantage it would have against 4690K and 4790K (the 5960X has not been tested yet (?)).
RE: Does Dolphin fully compatible for 5960x? - NaturalViolence - 10-31-2014
It would have no advantage. Its lower max clock rate would actually make it slower. And overclocking just two cores won't help much as dolphin jumps from one core to another quite often. But it will work and it will work well.
RE: Does Dolphin fully compatible for 5960x? - Aleksei.F.DRGNV - 10-31-2014
(10-31-2014, 09:40 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: It would have no advantage. Its lower max clock rate would actually make it slower. And overclocking just two cores won't help much as dolphin jumps from one core to another quite often. But it will work and it will work well.
I'm not using the PC just for gaming, and those extra cores can bring advantage for me
So, what about disabling 6 cores and overclocking 2 of them?
Thanks guys for ur replies
RE: Does Dolphin fully compatible for 5960x? - NaturalViolence - 10-31-2014
You would be better served disabling 4-5 cores if you were going to go to those lengths. Dolphin benefits from having an extra core for the OS to run background tasks on. Again it will run fine just not quite as fast as something like a 4790K.