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11-19-2009, 10:25 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-19-2009, 10:28 PM by marada2.)
I am in the process of building a budget system and wondered what the cheapest CPU processor I could buy that would run playable PCSX2 games (2d and 3d) at full speed? I know you can pick up the core 2 duo processors cheaply these days but is there anything cheaper with similar performance?
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Core 2 Duo E8200 seems to be the cheapest, I've got it and I can just BARELY run games at full FPS ( except Rumble Roses which constantly is around 40-80% ).
Your GPU can ofc. help out a bit too, but really anything above the 8800GT won't improve performance a lot I think, since a m8 of mine has GTX260 and a little weaker CPU and performs worse than mine due to the CPU.
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11-19-2009, 11:33 PM
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you cant go below core2duo for that ... maybe some pentium dual cores but they will mostly require overclocking. E7500 would be quite reasonable budget choice
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You can find an i5-750 for around $150 these days. Pair that with a cheap $80-$90 board and thats a cheap system that will run almost all games at full speed even on stock settings. If you are absolutely on a budget, you can try the AMD dual core setups, but they will require OC and an aftermarket cooler with artic silver 5 paste. I have never been happier with my rig and the core components were not that expensive. I can probably push my i5-750 to 4Ghz on air if I tried. That's pretty awesome for a $150 Intel Quad core CPU.
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(11-19-2009, 10:25 PM)marada2 Wrote: I am in the process of building a budget system and wondered what the cheapest CPU processor I could buy that would run playable PCSX2 games (2d and 3d) at full speed? I know you can pick up the core 2 duo processors cheaply these days but is there anything cheaper with similar performance?
Thanks Dave
Perhaps you should state your budget because our definition of cheap may not be the same as yours.
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(11-20-2009, 12:25 AM)decode1984 Wrote: You can find an i5-750 for around $150 these days. Pair that with a cheap $80-$90 board and thats a cheap system that will run almost all games at full speed even on stock settings. If you are absolutely on a budget, you can try the AMD dual core setups, but they will require OC and an aftermarket cooler with artic silver 5 paste. I have never been happier with my rig and the core components were not that expensive. I can probably push my i5-750 to 4Ghz on air if I tried. That's pretty awesome for a $150 Intel Quad core CPU.
I would go for i5 already i think if it cost so low .. in my country it cost like 250$
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Why go cheapest when it is better to go for quality, I would get a quad core Phenom of course because you can have it for awhile and it would still be a great processor. Getting a dual core would be a waste of money since phenoms are going for 200$ on average! Why I don't recommend Pentium processors, because I'm a hater like that and any real gamer knows AMD is better for gaming! ;P
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Well the funny thing paradox....the phenom quad core as you say is $200~, while the Core i5 is $150 and trumps all phenoms clock for clock. On my i5, I can run almost any PCSX2 game with no slowdowns. AMD is slowly losing their price
erformance ratio. I used to be an AMD fanboy, owning several Athlon CPU's. I decided to go with Intel this time because of it's cheap Core i5-750, and I am not regretting it one bit.
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