Gaming A new PC

[Deleted User]

Too bad i can't ship it to my country because of the costs(I can buy a ipad + a iphone6+a apple watch if i add the costs)

To be fair, you exaggerate a little. Shipito (a US postal forwarding company) quotes a 6kg, $500 USD value 60x40x20cm package shipped to Abidjan at $150USD.

That's a nutshot to be sure, but it's less than that.

 

[schrmh]

Too bad i can't ship it to my country because of the costs(I can buy a ipad + a iphone6+a apple watch if i add the costs)

I am not going to install a italian VPN and searching on other sites just to find a better (shipping) price for you.

 

[mimi-dono]

To be fair, you exaggerate a little. Shipito (a US postal forwarding company) quotes a 6kg, $500 USD value 60x40x20cm package shipped to Abidjan at $150USD.

That's a nutshot to be sure, but it's less than that.

I'm talking about the price in the black market(i always wondered why it is so cheap)

I am not going to install a italian VPN and searching on other sites just to find a better (shipping) price for you.

No need to do that for me, i'm searching myself,it is just that since i lost my pc to thunder i've been deconnected for the emulation world so i need help to know with laptop can play what(i mean icore and pentium with a laptop is another world for me)

 

[mimi-dono]

*sigh* this is really taxing, i pay a notebook right now and a real pc i7 later( or pay a console).....so last question which is better a pentuim dual core or a icore 3 ?

 

[Originality]

Pentium is the lowest range in the Intel lineup, designed purely for budget systems. Core i3 is better.

One way to think about it (and grossly overgeneralizing it)... Pentium range has 2 cores, Core i3 has 2+2 cores (thanks to hyper threading), Core i5 has 4 cores, Core i7 has 4+4 cores.

The +2/+4 cores are logical cores, not physical cores, which run between 50-80% of the strength of a physical core. Having more cores means more threads can be executed at once (good for multi-threaded applications, not so useful for single-threaded applications). Most emulators are only single-threaded, which is why they used to say to emulate PS2 you needed 3Ghz minimum and the faster the CPU, the higher framerates you got. I stopped using emulators altogether around that era so I've only heard that Dolphin is multi-threaded and multi-threading hacks exist for PS2 emulators but I don't know the details.

 

[mimi-dono]

Pentium is the lowest range in the Intel lineup, designed purely for budget systems. Core i3 is better.

One way to think about it (and grossly overgeneralizing it)... Pentium range has 2 cores, Core i3 has 2+2 cores (thanks to hyper threading), Core i5 has 4 cores, Core i7 has 4+4 cores.

The +2/+4 cores are logical cores, not physical cores, which run between 50-80% of the strength of a physical core. Having more cores means more threads can be executed at once (good for multi-threaded applications, not so useful for single-threaded applications). Most emulators are only single-threaded, which is why they used to say to emulate PS2 you needed 3Ghz minimum and the faster the CPU, the higher framerates you got. I stopped using emulators altogether around that era so I've only heard that Dolphin is multi-threaded and multi-threading hacks exist for PS2 emulators but I don't know the details.

Arigato Ikuto-sensei!huh i mean Originality-sensei, i'll pay a toshiba i3 to replay Dmmd

 

[mimi-dono]

You need to be just a little more clear with what kind of games you want to play. If it's just online games, all 3 laptops would be able to run them. Older emulation (SNES and N64) would also be able to run on all 3. Newer emulation (PS1, PS2) would struggle on the third laptop but would be ok on the first two.

The other thing is, how much are you actually willing to spend on your laptop? If you just need it for office work, then the first or third laptop would be better as the price is lower. If you really need to play games, the second laptop has better specs than the others (nvidia 940 compared to 920 and Intel HD 4000) and would get better performance.

Pentium is the lowest range in the Intel lineup, designed purely for budget systems. Core i3 is better.

One way to think about it (and grossly overgeneralizing it)... Pentium range has 2 cores, Core i3 has 2+2 cores (thanks to hyper threading), Core i5 has 4 cores, Core i7 has 4+4 cores.

The +2/+4 cores are logical cores, not physical cores, which run between 50-80% of the strength of a physical core. Having more cores means more threads can be executed at once (good for multi-threaded applications, not so useful for single-threaded applications). Most emulators are only single-threaded, which is why they used to say to emulate PS2 you needed 3Ghz minimum and the faster the CPU, the higher framerates you got. I stopped using emulators altogether around that era so I've only heard that Dolphin is multi-threaded and multi-threading hacks exist for PS2 emulators but I don't know the details.

Originality sensei, i have a problem, i understand that i3 is better than dual core but what if the dual core processor is 2.67 GHZ max can it play PS2 games(Because the i3 is 1.9 GHZ)?
Dual core: http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/764186/Toshiba-Satellite-Laptop-156-Screen-Intel/