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08-08-2013, 09:27 PM
hello everyone, I'm new and I speak Italian so via google translate and sorry in advance for how I write.
time for action
I have serious problems with the emulator even though the pc is not in a bad way.
CPU E6600
2GB DDR3 Ram
HD 4890 1GB
the video card should not have much trouble moving the emulator and the RAM I think is enough. one that leaves me in doubt is the processor. But I do not know which one to choose because I would not spend too much.
I'm doing a speech right? can someone help me? will greatly improve the situation if I had to choose just a Q8200 with SSE4?
thanks in advance
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Your video card and ram are fine.
The Q8200 would be better because you can enable MTVU which will use more CPU cores, but it is still a little on the slow side. If you feel comfortable overclocking it, it should work well for an upgrade. Otherwise you'll want a quad core CPU in the 3ghz+ range. Unfortunately, I don't know which CPUs your board would support.
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A used high-end Q, such as a Q9500 (2.8 ghz) or Q9700 (3.17 ghz) on a socket 775 motherboard sometimes costs more on ebay than a used i5 2500k! I guess you are stuck with that choice if you don't want to update your motherboard AND cpu. It would not do you much good to go from a 3+ ghz E6??? cpu to a Q8200 (only 2.3ghz). Even the awesome MTVU hack won't help you if your GS% is 99% due to weak cpu.
If you had good cooling and a good motherboard to support aggressive overclocking of a Q8200 over 3+ ghz then go for it instead and save a few dollars (or whatever currency you choose).
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the motherboard is a Asrock G41C-GS, supports all processors with Socket 775.
I hate to throw out of discrete components and by now well-established as such. but if the processor is my "bottleneck" I believe that or replace it.
has some decent prices I found the Q8300 and Q9300 obviously used. otherwise I have to wait a few auction on ebay
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Quote:E6600 is also only 2.4ghz.
Hmm, I was not aware that model being only 2.4 ghz. I had a E5400 that was 2.7 ghz. It was really confusing to me as Intel recycled a lot of similar model numbers with lots of codenames during that time.
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no, no... my E6600 have 3,02Ghz