AMD A10-5800K for PS2/GC Emulation?

TNTS · Dec 27, 2013

I plan to emulate Gamecube and PlayStation 2 games on my rig tops. Maybe run Tribes: Ascend at highest settings in 1366 x 768 resolution.

I'm also wondering if I could use my 1333 MHz modules for this rig or should I upgrade it to 1600 or 1866 for better performance?

jghaverty · Dec 27, 2013

haha, you can run ps2 on a pentium 4. AMD A10 is fine.

TNTS · Dec 27, 2013

jghaverty :

What about the RAM. Oh and it was impossible to get a constant frame rate with a Pentium D on an IGP.

jghaverty · Dec 27, 2013

well depends on the amount. If you have 16gb of 1333 you're fine. if you have 8gb you're fine. 4 you're "ok", and 2 is lacking. You need 4 for 99.9999% of games right now, even battlefield 4 only uses like... 3 gigs of ddr5.

Tradesman1 · Dec 27, 2013

jghaverty :

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Interesting so many upgrading, because 4GB isn't enough for BF4 - and think the DDR5 is a typo, as DDR4 isn't even commercially available - GPUs use a version of DDR5 for GPUs

jghaverty · Dec 27, 2013

Oops, that was indeed a typo. Thanks for pointing that out, had my head in GPU land xD

You can play BF4 fine with 4gb, however, if you want any real performance, 8 gigs is recommended. Right now, you're kind of foolish if you're not going to get at least 8gb anyway. BF4 uses 3 gigs of memory, but thats not taking into account any other processes as well.

Tradesman1 · Dec 27, 2013

APU like fast DRAM and utilize it heavily with the built in GPU if you are utilizing that, I'd be looking for 2x4GB 1866/8-9 to 2133/9-10, something like the GSkill SNipers which I've found to be very good with AMD rigs, an alternative would be the Ripjaws X series of sticks

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