Hello everyone, I'm addicted to Dolphin. My computer, however, hates it. So, I'm getting a new one.
I would like for the rig to run Wii and GC flawlessly. Zero lag. Any suggestions? I'm not that great with building & upgrading so if there's already one out there on the market that could do the job that would be a major plus.
P.S. I have no budget, so no worries there!
P.P.S. I want to go above and beyond with this.
There is no rig that can run everything flawlessly. The answer is the same as it was for the last 500 PC threads, get an i5 2500k, overclock it a few hundred MHz and use a decent video card with 100GB bandwidth or more.
(10-04-2011, 01:36 AM)[SS] Starscream Wrote: There is no rig that can run everything flawlessly. The answer is the same as it was for the last 500 PC threads, get an i5 2500k, overclock it a few hundred MHz and use a decent video card with 100GB bandwidth or more.
I'm sorry if my noobish threads clutter the board - I completely understand, I was a webmaster for 7 years. Small talk aside, what's the best video card out there these days?
If you have any suggestions as to what type of computer I should purchase, as well, that would be fantastic.
Thanks again, and sorry for being a noob. I just lack the patience to lurk moar.
Either build a PC or buy something with an i5/i7-2500k. Then for the best video card out there at the moment, buy an HD6990, or for something not so expensive, you can look at the HD5870, HD6790 or HD6850.
That's not true. The HD6450 is garbage, as is the HD6570.
But jokes aside, I totally agree with dannzen.
@Starscream: But the HD6450 and HD6570 aren't "above" the gtx 260 when talking about performance, are they?
Buying a multi-GPU card for dolphin is a REALLY bad idea. Dolphin and crossfire don't play nice.
Quote: @Starscream: But the HD6450 and HD6570 aren't "above" the gtx 260 when talking about performance, are they?
Not even close. I think SS had a tiny brain aneurysm and didn't realize that the phrase "any card above" is interpreted as "any card faster than".
Dannzen is right, in fact you can go much lower. An 8800GT/3870 is fast enough to handle any game at 1080p 3x IR while a 8800GS/3850 is fast enough to handle most games at 1080p 3x IR (as long as it's the PCI-e version). Dolphin's GPU requirements are actually pretty low compared to modern PC games as long as you stay away from SSAA, 4x IR, and pixel lighting.
That's not true at all. In fact the number of OP/s (operations per second) done by the GPU will be higher for most systems running dolphin. It's just that the GPU can easily handle its workload while the cpu has a much harder time due to lower throughput and that fact that the software isn't heavily multithreaded.
I know what you meant to say though, just be careful with your wording.
I would strongly advise you build it yourself for a long list of reasons which I don't have time to get into now, but even if you buy one make sure it has everything that I just listed.
Okay, lets straighten this out right now. He's talking about the numbering system at this point (until he clarified after the fact). "Any card" above the HD57xx is not good enough for Dolphin, as I stated with the two cards that were garbage. Sometimes the higher the card number does not necessarily mean better performance. The original poster needed to know this when he buys a video card so he does not just blindly look at numbers and assume he's getting a good card because it starts with a high number. Some HD5xxx card are garbage, some are good, the same goes for HD6xxx cards.