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LuckyTrouble on 11 July 2015
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bunchanumbers said:
LuckyTrouble said:
bunchanumbers said:
Its truly shocking to see what is capable with Dolphin and people willing to do this for old franchises. I wonder how much it would cost to make a rig that could handle this without issue?

Probably around $800 since you'd want a decent i7 processor and a relatively good GPU. I'd imagine what you can get for around $120 at this point in terms of Nvidia GPUs would get the job done, so there's that, at least. Honestly, even a $600 rig could probably pull off at least a stable 30 FPS as long as it isn't an AMD machine. AMD and Dolphin don't really get along.


I thought that dolphin doesn't use more than 2 cores and maybe a 3rd core for sound. Wouldn't a i7 be overkill?

IIRC, emulation is one of few things that can actually benefit some from an i7. At the same time, you can usually achieve the same, if not superior performance just overclocking a less expensive i5. Not to mention a good value i5 is best for general gaming purposes anyways. Realistically, I suppose an i7 is fairly unnecessary. I wouldn't dip as low as an i3 though if an i5 isn't out of a person's price range.