11-11-2015, 12:39 PM
It is impossible to estimate anything. If anyone says "yeah a i7 4790k should be fast enough" they are talking out of their ass, there is no way to know. Did the developers of pcsx2 in the early days know that a quad core CPU with AVX instructions would even exist several years later, and then be practically useful for the emulator? The answer is no.
Asus N55SF, i7-2670QM (~2,8 ghz under typical load), GeForce GT 555M (only OpenGL)