Hello,
first of all, I know helping newbees isn't exactly the greatest thing out there but I'd highly appreciate any help.
So me and my dad got the idea of buildilng an htpc for the living room which would be able to play DVD, Blu-Ray, CD's and stream media of a server/Youtube. Then, I figured my Wii was reaching age '6' very soon, and it might be cool to make it play games as well. Our build would have to change drastically, but since my dad wanted to put a shitton of power in that thing anway (i5 for streaming media, lolwut), that wasn't exactly that big of a problem.
I have been experimenting with Dolphin for the past month or so, and so far I'm quite pleased. My dad has an Intel 4670K running Integrated Graphics, which was emulating pretty fine. My dekstop computer holds an AMD A10 5700 APU and that one is also able to pull of quite a lot.
So my first question is, what should my build feature? My first choice would be another 4670 with an Asus Z67 motherboard, though I am not sure about the graphics. The integrated graphics will not be enough for playing Super Mario Galaxy (2) or Mario Kart Wii. I basicly want to play pretty much all the games I have in my collection. DKCR, SMG(2), MKWII and a bunch of other games (which are not worth mentioning because they run full speed on my main machine anyway). Cooling needs to be super silent, and I was originally going for another Scythe Mugen 4 (monstrous, but so silent!), but sadly that one does not fit in the SilverStone LC16B-M-USB 3.0 we are planning to use as a case.
I don't know anything about GPU's sadly, it's not really my thing. Any help on a small, cool, silent and powerful GPU would be amazing, thanks!
On to the next part, software.
I'm not sure wether to use Linux or Windows. Windows has really proven to be fast in its 8.1 release, but Linux will always be that little faster and more customizable. I have been searching on this forums which one is the best, but I don't see any winner. Older threads seem to say Windows, but the newer ones say it doens't matter. I see there's a Linux tester around here (I forgot your name though, sorry![Tongue]( "Tongue")
) so I guess it's not that bad. Any feedback on that would be nice too, though ![Smile]( "Smile")
tldr;
- What HTPC GPU and cooling do you advise to go with an Intel 4670K?
- Windows or Linux, what's the best for Dolphin?
Thank you for reading my ridiculously long post and thanks to everyone for contributing to the project.
- Anthe
first of all, I know helping newbees isn't exactly the greatest thing out there but I'd highly appreciate any help.
So me and my dad got the idea of buildilng an htpc for the living room which would be able to play DVD, Blu-Ray, CD's and stream media of a server/Youtube. Then, I figured my Wii was reaching age '6' very soon, and it might be cool to make it play games as well. Our build would have to change drastically, but since my dad wanted to put a shitton of power in that thing anway (i5 for streaming media, lolwut), that wasn't exactly that big of a problem.
I have been experimenting with Dolphin for the past month or so, and so far I'm quite pleased. My dad has an Intel 4670K running Integrated Graphics, which was emulating pretty fine. My dekstop computer holds an AMD A10 5700 APU and that one is also able to pull of quite a lot.
So my first question is, what should my build feature? My first choice would be another 4670 with an Asus Z67 motherboard, though I am not sure about the graphics. The integrated graphics will not be enough for playing Super Mario Galaxy (2) or Mario Kart Wii. I basicly want to play pretty much all the games I have in my collection. DKCR, SMG(2), MKWII and a bunch of other games (which are not worth mentioning because they run full speed on my main machine anyway). Cooling needs to be super silent, and I was originally going for another Scythe Mugen 4 (monstrous, but so silent!), but sadly that one does not fit in the SilverStone LC16B-M-USB 3.0 we are planning to use as a case.
I don't know anything about GPU's sadly, it's not really my thing. Any help on a small, cool, silent and powerful GPU would be amazing, thanks!
On to the next part, software.
I'm not sure wether to use Linux or Windows. Windows has really proven to be fast in its 8.1 release, but Linux will always be that little faster and more customizable. I have been searching on this forums which one is the best, but I don't see any winner. Older threads seem to say Windows, but the newer ones say it doens't matter. I see there's a Linux tester around here (I forgot your name though, sorry
) so I guess it's not that bad. Any feedback on that would be nice too, though 
tldr;
- What HTPC GPU and cooling do you advise to go with an Intel 4670K?
- Windows or Linux, what's the best for Dolphin?
Thank you for reading my ridiculously long post and thanks to everyone for contributing to the project.
- Anthe