Pcsx2 Speed Discussion Help!

[BlackCitadel]

Hello,

Today I have got a TOSHIBA Laptop
Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU M 380 @ 2.53GHz
Dedicated Video/Graphics Memory 512 MB ATI Radeon

3 GB RAM

And Many games are still running at terribly slow speed 15/20 fps I still can't play them....
One of them is Primal, Tenchu...

Take a look at these screenshots.




Can you please tell me?
So what CPU should I buy then?
Is there a difference between i3 and i5??

[Inferno.]

You wonder why the speed isn't good? i3s aren't very good, it's a laptop, and it has onboard video. Good day.

[Jase]

You wonder why the speed isn't good? i3s aren't very good, it's a laptop, and it has onboard video. Good day.

You forgot the 3gig of RAM and the fact that its running windows 7 64bit, lulz.

[BlackCitadel]

What??
So what does that mean? 64-bit
What a Windows Operating System has to to do with the emulator speed?
And do you mean that 3 GB RAM is too week for the emulator?

And when i3s aren't very good, so which laptop cpu is good for the emulator speed?
Intel Atom? Dual Core? Core 2 Duo? i3? i5? Pentium?

[Englebert3rd]

Forget laptops when emulating a PS2, and use a Desktop. Mine can run Resident Evil Outbreak File 2 pretty well, tried Timesplitters 3 too and it's playable. It has some framerate issues, but you can play it on a 1080p TV.
Only thing is, that I'm running on Vista 32-bit and have 4GB of RAM and it can only read 3 My graphics card is a Nvidia GTX 460 and CPU's Intel i5 overclocked at 3.20GHz

[BlackCitadel]

OK thanks for the information.
So which CPU do you recommend me to buy for my desktop to give me a good playable speed fps (50-60) for the emulator?

[Englebert3rd]

OK thanks for the information.
So which CPU do you recommend me to buy for my desktop to give me a good playable speed fps (50-60) for the emulator?

I can recommend mine as it's pretty overclockable, you can play the latest games without too much bottleneck, if you can play any next-gen game without sacrificing too much on the graphics then you can have a decent framerate on the emulator. But remember that you need a solid graphics card.
The CPU I've got costs about £110 already overclocked, the graphics card about the same price.

[BlackCitadel]

OK thanks again.....
I have a question...
Can I overclock my TOSHIBA Laptop CPU a little bit? Maybe the emulator will run faster.... It's now 2.53GHz...
Or does this damage the CPU?

Another thing....
As I noticed that it's running a Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit..

So, can I install a 86x (32-bit) on this laptop????

[Englebert3rd]

I wouldn't recommend overclocking a laptop, as the fan won't be up to the task and may damage the hardware.
Yeah, you can install an x86, I think Windows 7 can let you choose whether you want the 32 or 64-bit version. Trust me, laptop gaming ain't exactly the best, not even the Alienware laptops are that great either.

[BlackCitadel]

Thanks again
So you recommend me to buy a core i5 CPU for my desktop??
What speed?
3000? and overclock it to 4000 or what??

[Jase]

Only thing is, that I'm running on Vista 32-bit and have 4GB of RAM and it can only read 3

Um what?

All 32bit operating systems can see a maximum of 4GB. It is a mathematical
limit, not the OS. Vista x86 like XP x86 will show a little over 3GB on
System Properties. This is normal. The "missing" ram is not really
missing. It is used by the system and not presented to the user. There is
a range of addresses at the upper end of 4GB that is reserved. In a system
with less than 4GB these are logical addresses and are handled by the system
that way. However, when the system has 4GB it must block out physical ram
to protect the reserved addresses. In addition, the BIOS will reserve some
additional address space for use by devices detected by the BIOS.

And SRSLY PS2 are like 30 bucks if that where im from....

[Englebert3rd]

Thanks again
So you recommend me to buy a core i5 CPU for my desktop??
What speed?
3000? and overclock it to 4000 or what??

It works on GHz, so the default it's on 2.80, then you access the BIOS and have to go to 3.20. But it's not so simple, you might look around for some tutorials on how to do it, as I'm not that good at explaining it. You have to do a bit of tinkering with the settings. First read guides, tutorials and then do it, because if you don't know how to do it and immediately try to overclock it, then you might fry your CPU.
It's not simple at the beginning, then you get the hang of it.

Um what?

All 32bit operating systems can see a maximum of 4GB. It is a mathematical
limit, not the OS. Vista x86 like XP x86 will show a little over 3GB on
System Properties. This is normal. The "missing" ram is not really
missing. It is used by the system and not presented to the user. There is
a range of addresses at the upper end of 4GB that is reserved. In a system
with less than 4GB these are logical addresses and are handled by the system
that way. However, when the system has 4GB it must block out physical ram
to protect the reserved addresses. In addition, the BIOS will reserve some
additional address space for use by devices detected by the BIOS.

And SRSLY PS2 are like 30 bucks if that where im from....

Don't worry you didn't need that long of an explanation. You could've just wrote it's a mathematical limit.

I do have a PS2, but y'know when you want to upgrade the graphics a little bit, besides emulation always fascinates me.

[BlackCitadel]

Well,
What if I didn't overclock it and run the emulator at that normal speed of 2.80Ghz?
Will it emulate the games at a playable speed?

[Englebert3rd]

Well,
What if I didn't overclock it and run the emulator at that normal speed of 2.80Ghz?
Will it emulate the games at a playable speed?

Yeah it will, it's a very good CPU afterall, didn't let me down so far.

[BlackCitadel]

Thanks
So, but since it can run the emulator at a good speed so why do I have to overclock it?
And by the way... Isn't a laptop core i5 2.8GHz the same as that of the desktop PC? and will run the emulator at a good speed?
Or does the Laptop CPU differ from the desktop one even if they are of the same speed?