Emulation PC

[paulbean150]

I have a dell optiplex 780 w 10 gb of ram and I want to use it as an emulation PC in my living room, unfortunately it seems the parts it has are failing to meet my hopes. I want to emulate IDEALLY PS3 back, but I'm currently struggling with Gamecube emulation via Dolphin, it only allows for one backend, direct3D 11, nothing else runs at all, except for none and none runs about as well as a small car trying to push a brick wall, while direct3D 11 runs usually visually pretty smooth, but the audio is crap and video has frequent slowdowns. what I'm asking for is advice on how to improve performance, what to tweak for optimal play, or what to upgrade within reasonable cost, seeing as the whole PC only cost me 20$

[Snowarch]

well what are this pc's specs can.help you better with them. is it a laptop? 

 

if its a desktop, well emulators take high specs, and you said "visually" that suggests maybe a graphics card upgrade would help. assuming the cpu doesnt bottleneck.

[Tarry Hesticle]

Well throwing in something like an rx 470 or 480 (depending on where you live you can get these for 60-90 USD)would definitely improve the situation, but assuming you have the core 2 duo model that thing is going to be a huge bottleneck. Tech yes city has some good budget build videos with some options that would make more sense.