jester_socom Posted May 7, 2013 Share Posted May 7, 2013 I have difficulties playing PS2 games in PCSX2 I own. My PS2 broke down one year ago. I had a 2500K which could play ok when overclocked at 4.4GHz. Now I wanted to replace my 3210m i5 cpu by a i7 model. I believe the 3610 or 3630QM models will do.However I see some priced around 300€ and I start wondering if that's really worth it. By the time I have another 1100$ I will be looking at the Haswell models in autumn.It seems stupid to buy a new CPU for just virtualization with VMWare, PCSX2 and ArmA 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amblin Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 Are you using Throttlestop? This system by default does not use TurboBoost when both the CPU and GPU are loaded, leaving you at 2.4ghz max. Use Throttlestop to have the system run at 3.2ghz regardless of the system being loaded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jester_socom Posted May 11, 2013 Author Share Posted May 11, 2013 Aren't there BIOS settings which do that ?I don't know where you base yourself at but my turbo boost works just fine and is always around 2.8-3 GHz. I have the i5 model and SLI. :/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
octiceps Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 The throttling might not exist for the i5 models like they do for the i7. The i5 uses less power and outputs less heat so that would make sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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