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[Eddie_Raja]

sc94597 said:

Eddie_Raja said:

LOL then dont get a POS pentium if AT ALL HE WANTS FUTURE GAMES!

Is your reading comprehension really that bad or are you intentionally ignoring information? He wants a PC that can run Dolphin/PCSX2 maxed. He does not want to spend more than $600 ( so an i5k is out of the picture right now.) An FX 6300 will not max Dolphin. Furthermore, an FX 6300 is on an aging chipset which is not future proof. In the less than likely case that he wants to play certain future games which do not support dual cores, all he has to do is upgrade said G3258 to a Haswell I5k or i7k. That is by far a more future-proof solution than going with an archaic chipset. It will also show more performance in both the short-term (when he wants to play emulators) and the long term. So right now he can play the games he wants to play (emulators) and in the future he can upgrade easily to play the games he wants to play. 

Get an FX-6300 because it is half the price of the i5 and if threaded correctly it performs just as well.  YES, the FX-6300 will run emulators a LITTLE slower, but it will run modern games WAY WAY better.