my computer lags horribly, need help

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BRENDAN RYTHER

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okay, so i don't know if this is the right category or not. but here goes. recently i've been trying to play gamecube games on dolphin emulator. however, when i load a game it lags horribly. it'll start at 100% speed when it's loading and reading the save data but in actual gameplay it drops to 75% or lower. the games i've tried are paper mario 2 and some spongebob game. any ideas as to how i can improve performance? my specs:

CPU: AMD Phenom X4 9850 BE 2.5GHz

GPU: Integrated motherboard ATI Radeon HD 4200

PSU: 350W HIPRO (never heard of the brand, it was a replacement from a shop)

RAM: 4GB (2x2GB) Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR2

Motherboard: ASRock A785GM-LE

i was thinking of getting a Radeon HD 7750, would this be bottlenecked by anything? is there anything else i can do to improve emulator performance? if anyone could give me some links, advice, and/or price ranges (i could spend maybe $175 USD, that's my budget for the whole upgrade) it would really help
 
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kiaff75

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What you have now should run a gamecube emulator fine. Its probably just a crappy emulator. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling? Or finding a different emulator all together? Integrated graphics usually suck but gamecube never had anything that demanding anyways but who knows, a gpu would help with other games though.
 
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BRENDAN RYTHER

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well i haven't tried uninstalling and re installing. but all other gamecube emulators were abandoned by their creators years ago, and can only play 2 or 3 games, if that. dolphin is still in production and is the top rated emulator for gamecybe/wii. they managed to implement the wii's gamecube support into an emulator, it's a two in one. is there anything i can do to boost performance? a GPU card wouldn't be until later on, so for now my options are....?
 
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kiaff75

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Well like AxlFone said first youd have to get a new power supply to be able to handle any new components. What version of windows are you running? If youre running windows7 you can get more ram if you have the slots. windows xp has a max of 4gb though.
 
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BRENDAN RYTHER

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i'm running vista home premium 64 bit. by the way, is there any way to get 4GB of DDR2 RAM in single sticks? all i can find is either pairs of 2GB sticks, or laptop and ECC memory.
 
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Get rid of vista, my first pc had vista and i used to get 100+ fps in cod2, when i upgraded it to w7 i got 300+ no problem. Vista is horrible in general performance and hurts that pc a lot, you can also buy a more decente GPU if you are willing to spend, but upgrading vista should be the number 1 priority.
 
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