Probably just something to do with your setup or configuration. I run an antique rig with all the stuff in my sig and it performs pretty damn well, although my computer is basically only for FSX and a minimal amout of stuff is installed on it. It's funny because I helped a fellow the other day using Crossloop and when I saw the way his cfg was setup as well as his addons, the first thing I though was no wonder a lot of people can't run FSX well, the people who struggle most likely dont have it setup correctly, although they will never admit it, its easier to just blame the software.Hopefully Flight will work out better for you, or you could always go back to FS9 where you can get 100 FPS in any situtation.Sean Campbell

I do understand what You are saying, but sorry, I rest my case......... really I'm not a noob about hardware and software, electronic engineer in networks and telecoms. I agree with You that with the right config FSX can run well, but it's "too much tweaking and troubles" for a commercial software.I know also that FSX runs better with Nvidia and Hi-Ghz CPU's, but sorry I spent a fortune for an i7 multicore "not so hi Ghz" and an ATI 5870...... A well made software should run well, at least decent, indipendently of the hardware "brands" and, most important, it should be "scalable".By the way, my great dream is to be a pilot, not in real life for sight troubles, so at the present I'm enjoying immensely my MD-11, JS41 and 747X on my "crappy but loved FSX" And, of course waiting for the NGX....... I'm 100% sure that PMDG is making this aircraft to run smoothly, because they already did it with MD-11 and JS41 .

It's a nice cooler but I just bought the H60 from Corsair - highly recommended, easy install, I'm running 63C under 1hr load with OCCT stress test, oh yeah, OCed to 4.5GHz lol

ryanbatcund,my i2500k is running on 4ghz on an asus p8p67-m board rather stable (I do see a bsod rarely but that was already the case before I overclocked, started when I ran some win7 updates I believe. luckily no crashes when flying so far). I followed a very straight forward oc guide I found where I just needed to change literally 4 settings or so in the bios. cooling in my antec p180 is pretty decent with the 2 case fans, the dark rock cpu cooler does not let the cpu go over 60c on prime and 45c in fsx flying the pmdg js41 at e.g. orbx cairns.do you have a guide how to bring the thing to 4.5? what are your memory setting? I have 8gb of corsair dominator pc1600 ddr3..phil

Phil, I believe the P8P67-M is limited in its overclocking capability because you are not able to manually set the CPU voltage (VCORE). I have my 2500k up to 4.2 and 1.225V at the moment, following this guide.

Phil, I believe the P8P67-M is limited in its overclocking capability because you are not able to manually set the CPU voltage (VCORE). I have my 2500k up to 4.2 and 1.225V at the moment, following this guide.

If so that really sucks. All I did was bump to volts to a notch under 1.35, and raise some of the other voltages just a hair, and changed multi to 45Works fine.

Phil, I believe the P8P67-M is limited in its overclocking capability because you are not able to manually set the CPU voltage (VCORE). I have my 2500k up to 4.2 and 1.225V at the moment, following this guide.

you can set vcore only via offset which I read would be better than a manual fixed value as it really adjusts vcore depending on load. when idle at 1.6ghz vcore is around 0.8v, going up to something like 1.2v.

following this guide.

EDIT: ha, this is exactly the guide I used. except that I limited myself to the 4ghz version for the time being :-). good find.

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you can set vcore only via offset which I read would be better than a manual fixed value as it really adjusts vcore depending on load. when idle at 1.6ghz vcore is around 0.8v, going up to something like 1.2v.EDIT: ha, this is exactly the guide I used. except that I limited myself to the 4ghz version for the time being :-). good find.

Yeah, I've played around with setting voltages via offset and using manual voltage control. I like how it turns down the voltage at idle, but I just can't get it very stable using offset (maybe I'm just timid and not putting enough + offset ). I'm still very impressed at how easy it was to OC these chips.

Sorry that I kind of forgot about this thread. Currently I've just got my 2600K at stock with HT and TurboBoost enabled. Since I use HT for things like video encoding, I mind as well keep it on all the time. I actually bought the K version because they didn't have any non-K versions left, and they were on back order. I do have a CoolerMaster Hyper 212 Plus which cools my CPU quite well. System runs at around 30 C minimum (in January when I got it), and currently it's running around 40-45 C or so under load. I don't really see a need to overclock this thing because as someone pointed out, if FSX was designed better, we wouldn't need hardware 5 years after FSX's release in order to make it run smoothly. For example, there are games today which are well optimized and don't require an overclocked Sandy Bridge/980X in order to max it out. I currently get roughly 30-40 FPS at LAX or JFK or if I have the traffic at 60% for both sliders, I get around 25-30 FPS in the VC.

Sorry that I kind of forgot about this thread. Currently I've just got my 2600K at stock with HT and TurboBoost enabled. Since I use HT for things like video encoding, I mind as well keep it on all the time. I actually bought the K version because they didn't have any non-K versions left, and they were on back order. I do have a CoolerMaster Hyper 212 Plus which cools my CPU quite well. System runs at around 30 C minimum (in January when I got it), and currently it's running around 40-45 C or so under load. I don't really see a need to overclock this thing because as someone pointed out, if FSX was designed better, we wouldn't need hardware 5 years after FSX's release in order to make it run smoothly. For example, there are games today which are well optimized and don't require an overclocked Sandy Bridge/980X in order to max it out. I currently get roughly 30-40 FPS at LAX or JFK or if I have the traffic at 60% for both sliders, I get around 25-30 FPS in the VC.

What addons/scenery are you running at that frame rate?EDIT: nevermind, I didn't read the last bit about VC. It's close to what I get with a 4.3GHz 2600k @ FSDT's KDFW in VC with the 744. (engines idle during taxi or holding short)

GEX, UTX, REX 2, FS Genesis, PMDG 747-8i, and SceneryTech NA. Oh and World of AI for the traffic.