Questions about setting up computer
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(10-02-2015, 07:23 PM)Blyss Sarania Wrote: ssakash was saying that "i7" means nothing as far as speed is concerned. And it doesn't. There are very slow i7 (i7 920) and very fast ones (i7 4790k)

Ya I understand all that, I honestly didn't know i7 went that low, Intel screams how their i7 is the fastest around, and yet they produce a 2.4Ghz i7. It seems silly to me, if someone can't afford the fast i7 then let them buy a i5 or i3...

All cleared up now though.
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It is still a laptop.
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(10-02-2015, 07:31 PM)0Z3ro0 Wrote: Ya I understand all that, I honestly didn't know i7 went that low, Intel screams how their i7 is the fastest around, and yet they produce a 2.4Ghz i7.

i7 is the fasts thing they have, for thread counts. it can run 8 threads, but pcsx2 cannot benefit that well from 8 threads
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(10-02-2015, 07:31 PM)0Z3ro0 Wrote: Ya I understand all that, I honestly didn't know i7 went that low, Intel screams how their i7 is the fastest around, and yet they produce a 2.4Ghz i7. It seems silly to me, if someone can't afford the fast i7 then let them buy a i5 or i3...

All cleared up now though.

Well clockspeed is not the sole indicator of performance. Current generation i7 is generally Intel's fastest yes. That 2.4Ghz i7 that the OP has is not too bad at all in fact, for a laptop CPU. Remember laptop CPUs are generally clocked lower for power, heat, etc, they use other measures like high IPC (instructions per clock) to offset the low clock speed. Also another difference is that i7 use hyperthreading. Generally any given i7 is usually a slightly faster clocked, hyperthread enabled version of an i5. Example

i7 3770k is hyper threaded version of i5 3570k. It's also clocked 100Mhz higher.

But we get a lot of people on here from time to time who just think i7 automatically means God tier. It doesn't. The best way to gauge a CPU performance is to look here: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php - that's what most of us use on the forum to know whether a given CPU is fast enough for PCSX2. The single threaded performance is the main one for PCSX2 which needs at least 1600 for most games, though some demanding ones need over 2000. OP's CPU has 1800ish.
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