Performance with i5 6600?

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Skylake (or any Intel CPU from the last few years really) will work great in PS2. PS2 benefits from per-core performance, and not so much from having more cores. That is the area Intel is very strong in.

I have a GTX970 and an overclocked i5-2500K (probably similar performance to a non-overclocked i5-6600) and the game runs great. I have everything maxed out pretty much and the only time I drop below 60FPS is in very large (200-300+) battles. I think that's more down to the game than the CPU/GPU though.

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So, my game looks not bad-ish... and my computer's whatever-makes-the-game-go-smooth is an i5 4200U. I get pretty okay FPS... is this good?

lol mate its called a processor I have the same processor in my laptop its not bad. I just upgraded my laptop with an SSD and faster RAM (from 667 Mhz to 1600 Mhz) so I saw a doubling in framerates Im so happy about that

And I dont have a discrete GPU so my game is not severely GPU bound. I'm going to try to take out the Wifi card and make a mod to use a desktop GPU on my laptop

Pretty much any i5 that has ever existed runs PS2 fine at sensible resolutions, so you should be more than fine with that.

Double, you say? Well snap, how does one upgrade RAM/SSD? It is a manual thing?

well yes... you have to take out the old RAM and hard drive and put in a new one. Then you have to reinstall your OS and all your stuff.