Hi everybody I want to build a second PC pretty much for the dolphin emulator so I can use it to play Wii games and GameCube games, have a media center computer in my living room and all the benefits of having a PC in your living room also, basically from what I have read on dolphin it only uses 2 cores of any processor and the higher the clock speed the better the emulator even runs some games run better. (well higher res then the Wii can pump out anyway) I am looking at using an Intel E8400 CPU because they easily Over-clock doing 3.6 Ghz on stock cooler and achieving 4 Ghz relatively easily. So I need to use a good motherboard for this p45 chipset I'm thinking Asus P5Q SE2 Intel P45 (Socket 775) DDR2 need advice though I like this because its cheap and I hope good for my needs. RAM Patriot Viper 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C4 Dual Channel this is expensive (£80)? can i use cheaper ram for this? Graphics card does not need to be great for my needs dolphin just uses OpenGL or DirectX and doesn't really need much else so I'm going with this card because it has DirectX 11 support and because I am going to need to use Asus ATI Radeon HD 5450 1024MB GDDR3 PCI-Express (£50). HDD and ODD don't matter in the slightest I have network drives and my home network has plenty of storage and I have a DVD drive already I'm not using. Operating system is going to be Windows 7 64bit because it is much better for dolphin, the other bits i need will be a Bluetooth adapter and Wifi card although these can be added at a later time. If you have any advice or suggestion maybe even some advice on AMD processors as I have never used them. And just so you know I hope to do this all for around about £500 but I wouldn't complain if it were less.
Wii and Gamecube emulation isn't smooth enough yet. A 4Ghz E8400 won't do it. You wouldn't pull it off with any CPU at the moment, the programs just aren't good enough (Dolphin included).
