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sc94597 on 13 November 2015
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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.