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===Hardware=== | ===Hardware=== | ||
Harware requirements are very game-dependant although it mush be noted that the bottleneck of this emulator in most cases is CPU rather than GPU (video card). So the faster CPU you'll get the better PCSX2 will work for you. Some games however can be slowed down because of unoptimized GFX code or even because of your weak GPU card (for example [[Final Fantasy XII]] is said to use your GPU in full its potention). Intel CPUs are better than AMD | Harware requirements are very game-dependant although it mush be noted that the bottleneck of this emulator in most cases is CPU rather than GPU (video card). So the faster CPU you'll get the better PCSX2 will work for you. Some games however can be slowed down because of unoptimized GFX code or even because of your weak GPU card (for example [[Final Fantasy XII]] is said to use your GPU in full its potention). Intel CPUs are better than AMD ones with PCSX2. Though it doesn't mean in any way that you will be unable to play on AMD CPUs it still says that when in some PC games your AMD and your friend's Intel CPU will perform equally good you may notice that this is not the case for PCSX2. | ||
The frequency of CPUs is not the ultimate meter of their success with PCSX2. The newer optimized CPUs perform better than the old ones using the same frequency. You can easily outperform Intel Pentium CPU with Intel Core CPU because of some optimizations in Intel Cores. However CPU frequency is one of the main factors for smooth PCSX2 use. | |||
So these are rather '''rough''' and '''average''' stats/"facts" give you the idea what kind of PC you'll need for PCSX2 ('''remember''' that some games will be fully playable with the stats considerably lower than the following). | |||
* You'll need dual core CPU (single core with HT support won't be enough). | |||
* You won't be able to see some good performance with budget CPUs (like Celeron or Semptron). | |||
* For Intel it's good to use at least Code 2 Duo (2006 and newer), for AMD you may want to start from Althlon X2 CPUs (2005 and newer). | |||
* Quad core CPU will not improve your PCSX2 experience much (but can ease some cases like using [[GSDX]] in software renderer mode). | |||
* You'll need at least 2.0-2.5Ghz for Intel Dual Cores, and at least 2.5Ghz for AMD Athlon 64 X2 (index 4600+ and higher for stock CPUs). | |||
* You may or may not want to overclock your CPU for some picky and slow games so consider a good cooler for it. | |||
* No laptop system will be able to show very good performance with PCSX2. | |||
===BIOS=== | ===BIOS=== | ||