you do realize the OP wants his build for Emulator gaming right? Not GTAV. I was merely making the point of fast RAM and APUs going well together. The guy basically wants to build a MAME rig. Stop drinking the koolade and open your mind to AMD.
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you do realize Emulator's are not very multi threaded and work better with stronger single threaded cpu's rigth?
And my pc is AMD i run a FX8320 and a HD7950......
And i dont know why you are telling me about apu's and fast ram i allready know that.
https://dolphin-emu.org/docs/faq/
"AMD: Due to very low IPC, AMD CPUs are poor choices for Dolphin."
"Dolphin is a dual core application that relies upon IPC (Instructions Per Clock) for performance. Additional cores will not make Dolphin go any faster, though an “extra” core that Dolphin isn’t using may help slightly by keeping background tasks from using the same cores as Dolphin."
Like a lot of things, I think the better answer is that "it depends" :p
NOTE: A Quad-Core CPU performs
an additional 10%~15% faster in Dolphin (over a Dual-Core CPU with the
same score) due to its ability to offload Dolphin's audio thread and OS
background tasks to the additional cores.
About OpenGL vs D3D9/11, a lot of people seem to get the impression that
since OGL is one of the slowest backends on Windows, OGL performance
must likewise be as slow on Linux. This isn't true exactly. Firstly,
hardware and drivers are notable factors to backend performance.
Generally, the OGL backend on Linux can hold it's own against D3D9/11 on
Windows. The GLSL-master branch may even make OGL faster overall across
all OSes, but we'll have to see how its development turns out.Also, drivers from Nvidia or AMD are very solid for Linux. Back with
ATI, their drivers used to be crap, but AMD has turned that around
rather significantly. There are open source versions for each, but the
ones for Nvidia weren't recommendable when I tried it, yet AMD's open
source driver seems workable for Dolphin based on some accounts. The
proprietary drivers are still good and I'd advise you to check them out
first.Really, it depends. Are you more comfortable with Ubuntu or Windows?
Even if Ubuntu is the greatest thing since sliced bread in the eyes of
some, if you can't get used to it, look at another OS for your needs. Do
you like PC gaming? You'll need to dual-boot, run software like
Crossover Games, wait for Steam on Linux to get more games, or learn to
enjoy OSS games like SuperTux Kart and Xonotic. Got any Windows-only
programs that you just can't find a decent OSS equivalent? Again, you'll
need to dual boot or use WINE.If Dolphin is your only concern, and since you seem to genuinely favor
Linux, there aren't a lot of reasons not to choose Linux as your OS. It
performs just as well as on Windows, and my experience over the past
year has been top-notch. If you can live Linux-only, go for it. Note,
before I tried Dolphin, I'd been using Linux as my sole OS for about 3
years.
I had the pleasure of playing with a 7850k recently and it impressed the heck out of me.
I only had a go with a couple of games but bf4 was enough to make me grin, okay so 1080p @ 33 fps (min) isnt anything to write home about but it bloody impressed the heck out of me for integrated.
If igp continues to improve at this rate then Nvidia will have a lot to worry about (as long as amd survive at all that is :D, looking at their current share price :().
capture card?
for what?