Which one is best suited for.....?

Hi , at the end of the month i decided to upgrade my Desktop.

Main things i want to do ,is play Wii,PS2,Gamecube

Which of these ones is better suited for this task?

Intel Based

Intel Dual Core E5200 2.5 GHZ 800MHZ ,2MB Cache
Silicon Power 2048MB RAM 800MHZ
PCI Express 1024MB VGA GARD DDR2 DVI TV
Other things are not important like HDD DVD Writer etc.
Price 334 USD.

AMD Based
Amd Athlon 64 X2 4400+ 2.3 GHZ
others equal like the intel based.
Price 300USD

Intel Based Quad
Intel Quad Core 2.3ghz 1333Mhz 4MB Cache
Silicon Power 4096Mb Ram 800mhz
Pci Express 1024MB
Price 800 USD

AMD BASED
Athlon Procesor AM2 5000+ Dual Core
others equal
Price 600 USD

I am aiming for the 600USD AMD as this is how much i am aiming to spent for a PC.

What do you suggest?

Honestly.. it doesn't matter how powerful your rig is... Those systems have a long way to come, if they are even emulated in any realistic form yet..

Don't upgrade your PC because you want to emulate.. Upgrade it cause you want to do PC things.. You could probably buy all those consoles for $600 and then chip them.

But i ve seen videos of Dolphin ,or Dolwin emulator in youtube emulating CASTLEVANIA JUDGEMENT at full speed in a Core 2 duo extreme procesor. And even some GC games. I dont know about PS2. Of course i will do the same thing which i do with my actual pc with the new one.

That's because some games run flawlessly, some don't and some won't run at all. I agree with Zach. If you're going to spend lots of money in a PC to emulate, it's always better to get the real system and mod it. It's a lot cheaper and runs flawlessly that way.

I agree with you ,but still i am going to upgrade,cause i cant stand anymore a singlecore,so which one of the systems is more worth the money?

I would go with a Core 2 Duo setup.

Quad Cores are fun for bragging rights, but VERY FEW programs actually utilize all 4 cores. Hell most games don't even push my C2D to 100% on both cores.

Also.. are you recycling your HDD and stuff? You need to be careful.. Most new motherboards are predominantly SATA. They might have 1 PATA IDE port at most. If you don't have SATA drives this makes it difficult..

But SATA HDD/DVD Burners are pretty cheap for decent sizes these days.

Is your total budget $600 USD? Are you gonna buy from a specific store? If you can buy from Newegg I would do that.. but they seem to randomly enforce this "no international credit cards" policy, with some getting through and some not.. It's hard to recommend parts when we don't know exactly where you are shopping because prices can vary wildly, especially when changing currency

600 is what i took apart for a new PC. but i can go to 700 the most for a desktop.

The Intel Core 2 Duo E5200 2.5 X 2=5ghz
2GB of RAM
1024 VGA

sounds really reasonable to a price of 334 USD.,well in fact i consider it cheap confronting the specs with a ebay Core 2 Duo desktop,so probably i will go for this,although i would have prefer a E6600 Core 2 duo processor.

The rest i am gonna buy a mini netbook 8.9 with Linux.

P.S When i buy in dollars i win a lot,because most things are sold in Euros in Albania,so i prefer USD as i can save a LOT.

Ok but you realize you are not getting a 5Ghz PC? Its not really twice as powerful because it has 2 cores.. I don't think CPUs scale that way anymore. It just makes better multitasking and such.


If you are buying from a local store, then I can't really give you much advice though.. Or tell you how much of what you can get for your money.

I would recommend though..

C2Duo @ 2.6Ghz or better. Get as close to 3Ghz as possible for it to really shine.
A good graphics card would be an AMD/ATI Radeon 4870 1GB, or 4890 1GB. They perform on par with many of the GTX series models, except they are nearly as rediculously priced.. when going for a Nvidia GTX get a Minimum of a GTX 260 (216 core) or get a GTX 280/85. Skip the 275 altogether really.
Recommend at least 8GB of DDR2 or DDR3 depending on the motherboard you get and what type of DDR it supports and what its maximum is.. Get a board that at LEAST supports 8GB of either type.. And don't automatically run out and buy the fastest RAM you can get your hands on, because it won't matter if you are not overclocking.. If your CPU is 1066FSB, get ram designed for that FSB, if its 1333FSB, get RAM rated for 1333, etc. With a 1:1 memory divider in BIOS it will run fine, and even if you overclock in the future (and you will have to use your FSB) a good DECENT board will have lower divider options so you can keep your RAM within its specs even though the FSB is higher.. However I doubt you will be overclocking, so just get the ram rated for your CPU/Mobo and don't be swindled into other higher priced shit you won't fully utilize.


As for whether or not $334 USD is reasonable, that doesn't say much at all.. your specs are very cague.. CPU's alone can cost upwards of $200+ USD, and you haven't listed a motherboard you are gonna purchase (I recommend Gigabyte, they are good boards and inexpensive for what you need) and "1024MB VGA" is too vague to mean anything.. Also - what about your power supply?? You HAVE to get a new power supply if you are gonna buy a modern CPU and Video card.. if yours is some shitty 300W or even 400W it may not be ATX 2.0 compatible if its real old, and will NOT power a modern video card.

You need at least a 550W power supply that has support for at least 2 PCI-Express power plugs, as most cards either require 1 or 2 of these.

If you can get us an exact list of all the parts you are planning to purchase and how much the cost is per part, or if it comes as a "packaged set" etc..

We need individual product names and specs to work off of, if you are going to get ANY helpful advice.. and DON'T forget the power supply!

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Originally Posted by leon_belmont

The Intel Core 2 Duo E5200 2.5 X 2=5ghz
2GB of RAM
1024 VGA

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Woah, there! Just because it has two cores, doesn't mean you'll get 5 GHz. 2.5 GHz is the speed per core and, depend of the application you're running, it will utilize one or both of them. For instance, if you run an old application that does not support multitasking or multicore, it will work as fast as a Pentium 4 of the same speed, with some variants regarding FSB and memory architecture.

And Zach is right. I have a Core 2 Quad computer and very few applications use all four cores. The only ones I have that manage to run all four cores are Photoshop CS4, Devil May Cry 4, Grand Theft Auto 4 and Assassin's Creed (as you can see, most games already support quad core technology).