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JRPGfan said:
You want a super fast cpu (dual only needed) (pref. haswell or better) that you can OC to like 4.4ghz or better.
That should ensure you can play any Wii game emulated running 1080p and never drop frames.

A G3258 is pretty cheap, get one if you need, and oc it to 4.0+ ghz atleast.
Anything in dolphin should be playable at good fps rates.

Yep the G3258 is a great CPU for 6th generation emulation. I have since upgraded to an i5 4690k, but the performance gain (both clocked at 4.4Ghz) was only 5% for the sound DSP and multitasking (albeit now I can record with no framerate drops!) The g3258 is now in an HTPC I built, and it works perfectly for that purpose. :) 



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sc94597 said:
JRPGfan said:
You want a super fast cpu (dual only needed) (pref. haswell or better) that you can OC to like 4.4ghz or better.
That should ensure you can play any Wii game emulated running 1080p and never drop frames.

A G3258 is pretty cheap, get one if you need, and oc it to 4.0+ ghz atleast.
Anything in dolphin should be playable at good fps rates.

Yep the G3258 is a great CPU for 6th generation emulation. I have since upgraded to an i5 4690k, but the performance gain (both clocked at 4.4Ghz) was only 5% for the sound DSP and multitasking (albeit now I can record with no framerate drops!) The g3258 is now in an HTPC I built, and it works perfectly for that purpose. :) 

Ive seen videos of people that run smooth Fallout 4 with a G3258 @ 4.2 ghz.

They can still play more or less any newer game. Some games might just require a little tinkering to get running perfectly but still a solid gameing cpu.



JRPGfan said:
sc94597 said:
JRPGfan said:
You want a super fast cpu (dual only needed) (pref. haswell or better) that you can OC to like 4.4ghz or better.
That should ensure you can play any Wii game emulated running 1080p and never drop frames.

A G3258 is pretty cheap, get one if you need, and oc it to 4.0+ ghz atleast.
Anything in dolphin should be playable at good fps rates.

Yep the G3258 is a great CPU for 6th generation emulation. I have since upgraded to an i5 4690k, but the performance gain (both clocked at 4.4Ghz) was only 5% for the sound DSP and multitasking (albeit now I can record with no framerate drops!) The g3258 is now in an HTPC I built, and it works perfectly for that purpose. :) 

Ive seen videos of people that run smooth Fallout 4 with a G3258 @ 4.2 ghz.

They can still play more or less any newer game.

The two games that caused the most trouble for two-threaded CPU's were Watch Dogs and Dragon Age Inquisition (albeit the latter was made playable in a  patch released in March.) The Witcher 3 also worked flawlessly until patch 7 when there was stuttering on two threaded CPU's, and I am unsure if it was ever fixed since then. For higher resolutions the G3258 is a bottleneck in Fallout 4 (and I am sure a few other games that take advantage of multiple threads.) But I doubt anybody who would have a GPU that can play at 4k resolutions would go cheap on a G3258 haha. Besides all of that you will just notice minor differences, which aren't a big deal for a budget gamer. 



sc94597 said:
JRPGfan said:
sc94597 said:
JRPGfan said:
You want a super fast cpu (dual only needed) (pref. haswell or better) that you can OC to like 4.4ghz or better.
That should ensure you can play any Wii game emulated running 1080p and never drop frames.

A G3258 is pretty cheap, get one if you need, and oc it to 4.0+ ghz atleast.
Anything in dolphin should be playable at good fps rates.

Yep the G3258 is a great CPU for 6th generation emulation. I have since upgraded to an i5 4690k, but the performance gain (both clocked at 4.4Ghz) was only 5% for the sound DSP and multitasking (albeit now I can record with no framerate drops!) The g3258 is now in an HTPC I built, and it works perfectly for that purpose. :) 

Ive seen videos of people that run smooth Fallout 4 with a G3258 @ 4.2 ghz.

They can still play more or less any newer game.

The two games that caused the most trouble for two-threaded CPU's were Watch Dogs and Dragon Age Inquisition (albeit the latter was made playable in a  patch released in March.) The Witcher 3 also worked flawlessly until patch 7 when there was stuttering on two threaded CPU's, and I am unsure if it was ever fixed since then. For higher resolutions the G3258 is a bottleneck in Fallout 4 (and I am sure a few other games that take advantage of multiple threads.) But I doubt anybody who would have a GPU that can play at 4k resolutions would go cheap on a G3258 haha. Besides all of that you will just notice minor differences, which aren't a big deal for a budget gamer. 


Got one running 4ghz... not the biggest OC but it I look at it as just free performance gained, and Im quite happy its running 800mhz more than default.

Have no issues with dolphin at 4ghz, runs everything Ive tried flawlessly, which is pretty darn good for a 68$ cpu.



JRPGfan said:
sc94597 said:

The two games that caused the most trouble for two-threaded CPU's were Watch Dogs and Dragon Age Inquisition (albeit the latter was made playable in a  patch released in March.) The Witcher 3 also worked flawlessly until patch 7 when there was stuttering on two threaded CPU's, and I am unsure if it was ever fixed since then. For higher resolutions the G3258 is a bottleneck in Fallout 4 (and I am sure a few other games that take advantage of multiple threads.) But I doubt anybody who would have a GPU that can play at 4k resolutions would go cheap on a G3258 haha. Besides all of that you will just notice minor differences, which aren't a big deal for a budget gamer. 


Got one running 4ghz... not the biggest OC but it I look at it as just free performance gained, and Im quite happy its running 800mhz more than default.

Have no issues with dolphin at 4ghz, runs everything Ive tried flawlessly, which is pretty darn good for a 68$ cpu.

Yep, it is a top-tier CPU for Dolphin and quite decent for PCSX2 and PPSSPP as well. Toughest game I threw at it on Dolphin was The Last Story, and with the newer revisions it worked at a constant 30 fps with some drops here and there. However, no CPU was able to run the game like that until the newest revisions. The motherboard I have is a Z97, so it was able to do a good overclock with a lowish core voltage. Works great for my i5 4690k as well (which I thought would be tricker to overclock with its four power-hungry cores.)