05-12-2024, 06:55 AM -
If you want an Alder Lake CPU with AVX-512, please see this reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/rpcs3/comments/...nd_how_to/
It is quite unlikely that any prebuilt PC would be able to enable it unless it was a custom built PC you are buying from someone else.
I personally have an MSI Pro Z690-A D4 which can enable AVX-512 on my 12900k on an older BIOS version, though as for the case you would be hard pressed to find one with everything you require as most manufacturers do not make cases with 5 1/4 inch bays anymore, much less smaller form factor ones. Since most people have no use for an optical drive these days I suspect it is highly likely that any small form factor case will not have one as a space saving measure. There are enclosures you can buy to run internal optical drives externally so I would suggest you look into that before wasting time trying to find a case that does everything you need.
Xeons are not good for RPCS3, they may have high core counts but they generally also have much lower clock speeds due to the high core counts, and RPCS3 can only use so many cores and threads for actual emulation. Mullti-socket solutions are out of the question as well, as the inter-CPU latency is too high to offset any performance gains that may come from it, if any at all.
Alternatively, if you don't want to mess around with older BIOSes and specific hardware revisions, AMD's Zen 4 chips are also good for RPCS3, they all support AVX-512 by default and they are still very fast for PS3 emulation. I am unsure if there are any Micro ATX or Mini ITX motherboards for Intel that would be able to unlock AVX-512 but I know that the AMD ones can all use it just fine.
It is quite unlikely that any prebuilt PC would be able to enable it unless it was a custom built PC you are buying from someone else.
I personally have an MSI Pro Z690-A D4 which can enable AVX-512 on my 12900k on an older BIOS version, though as for the case you would be hard pressed to find one with everything you require as most manufacturers do not make cases with 5 1/4 inch bays anymore, much less smaller form factor ones. Since most people have no use for an optical drive these days I suspect it is highly likely that any small form factor case will not have one as a space saving measure. There are enclosures you can buy to run internal optical drives externally so I would suggest you look into that before wasting time trying to find a case that does everything you need.
Xeons are not good for RPCS3, they may have high core counts but they generally also have much lower clock speeds due to the high core counts, and RPCS3 can only use so many cores and threads for actual emulation. Mullti-socket solutions are out of the question as well, as the inter-CPU latency is too high to offset any performance gains that may come from it, if any at all.
Alternatively, if you don't want to mess around with older BIOSes and specific hardware revisions, AMD's Zen 4 chips are also good for RPCS3, they all support AVX-512 by default and they are still very fast for PS3 emulation. I am unsure if there are any Micro ATX or Mini ITX motherboards for Intel that would be able to unlock AVX-512 but I know that the AMD ones can all use it just fine.