PPSSPP Emulator, Graphics Card Suggestions?

[Artofmagick93]

Hi guys, i have the following spec and it stutters on some psp games, and wii games, hoping to solve this with a new graphics card, here is my spec, hoping for guildance.

AMD Athlon II X4 640
Cores 4
Threads 4
Name AMD Athlon II X4 640
Code Name Propus
Package Socket AM3 (938)
Technology 45nm
Specification AMD Athlon II X4 640 Processor
Family F
Extended Family 10
Model 5
Extended Model 5
Stepping 3
Revision BL-C3
Instructions MMX (+), 3DNow! (+), SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4A, AMD 64, NX, VMX
Virtualization Supported, Disabled
Hyperthreading Not supported
Fan Speed 2742 RPM
Rated Bus Speed 1004.4 MHz
Stock Core Speed 3000 MHz
Stock Bus Speed 200 MHz
Average Temperature 54 °C

Ram

Type DDR3
Size 8192 MBytes

Graphics

VIDIA GeForce 7300 SE/7200 GS

Thankies for any assitance.

Alex

[Asferot]

Myea, 7300 is not a good card for this. For Wii its almost useless.
I wonder what kind of advice you want? Some will say, just buy a GTX 1080 or Titan and you will be golden. Of course if you have ~ 1000$. But if we are talking sane choices, I would say anything better than GeForce GT 220 and you will run PPSSPP on stable FPS and bit better card and you will run Dolphin well too.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-...,4388.html
Here is a great list that tells performance brackets for cards.
If you can afford it the GTX 1050 Ti is a solid low end choice. It still blows most hi end cards out of the water and costs less.

[TkSilver]

You can find GT 730 1GB gddr5 (make sure it is the gddr5 version) or gt 640 1GB gddr5 (same card the 730 is a rebrand) for $30 or so used/sometimes new.

[Asferot]

Yup. GT 730 [1Gb /GDDR5] is a nice choice too. I use it in my PC.

[Artofmagick93]

Thanks for all the advice from all of you, would GT 730 [1Gb /GDDR5] run the wii emulator without stutter, hoping to nail them both with one card. Just to add, dont mind spending about 200 pounds, 300 dollars, just wanted to make sure it fits in my motherboard, hoping for the best one for around that price which is compatible with the AMD Athlon II X4 640.

Thanks

Alex

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(04-11-2017 03:50 PM)Asferot Wrote:  Myea, 7300,
If you can afford it the GTX 1050 Ti is a solid low end choice. It still blows most hi end cards out of the water and costs less.

Would this be the card you recommended, and would this be better than what has been mentioned, around 140.00 pounds on amazon.

Gigabyte Nvidia GTX 1050Ti WF2 OC 4GB GDDR5 PCI-E

Thanks all.

Alex

[Asferot]

Yup. 1050 Ti is a great choice, if you can afford 1060 then its even better.

[TkSilver]

Your Athlon II X4 is going to be a far far far bigger bottleneck to running Dolphin then almost any modern"ish" GPU will.

But in my emulation PC I use the GT 640 version (same as the rebranded 730) to run PCSX2, Dolphin and other emulators. I don't have any performance issues, but I have a i5 4690k for my CPU.

If you really want to run Dolphin at 4k with lots of graphical enhancements then you will want a stronger GPU. If you want to play it like it looked like on the GC/Wii then you don't need that much.

Most emulators require a really good CPU and a so so GPU. Most native PC games require a so so CPU and rely on a strong GPU.

[Artofmagick93]

(04-13-2017 12:42 PM)Asferot Wrote:  Yup. 1050 Ti is a great choice, if you can afford 1060 then its even better.

Sorry for being a pain to all, my battery is only 450w, would this make any impact on performance, might even upgrade the motherboard, anyone know what the fatest i7 is, maybe bang the 1050TI in a i7, supposed to be top end speed, faster than alternatives like Pentium.

You peeps have been great, hopefully get this sorted.

Alex

[TkSilver]

The fastest reasonable i7 is the 7700k but an i7 for emulation or even most gamming is overkill. Almost no games and all emulators do not take advantage of the extra cores.

An i5 would be the best choice. If you want the top of the line and money is no object then currently the i5 7600k is the fastest i5, but the 6600k is not much slower nor is the 4960k. So depending on the prices you get and the motherboard deals you find any of these 3 would be good.

As far as power supplys go as long as your supply is a good one...... 450w coukd handle a i5 6600k, 2SSD, 16GB RAM, 3 good 120mm fans and a GTX 1060 with some headroom for more fans or maybe a HDD.

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This is a website people commonly use when building a system:

http://pcpartpicker.com/

It automatically calculates the necessary wattage.

You can also compare CPUs using a site like this:

http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Int...3885vs3647

Pay the most attention, for emulation, to the "SC" scores. "QC" and "MC" aren't typically good measures for emulation (as noted by TkSilver.)

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