LOL..... remember.....I have no fsx.CFG tweak and the GTX 480 was running at default for the test....:Hug:

Alain,It's interesting to notice the slight difference with super-pi results between the i7 980x and the i7 2600k with lower RAM.According to your results with FSXMark11 FSX seems to prefer the i980 though <_<

I can not get this to work. I downloaded the file and unzipped it, copied it to my FSX drive and copied the flight plan to the My Docs\FSX folder with all my other flight plans.I double click on the FSXMarkII fsx.exe app and FSX starts and I am over Boston with the sim paused, I unpause the sim and the plane starts flying, but the test does not end after five minutes it just keeps going until I close FSX and the Excel spread included in the download is never updated.What am I missing?

I can not get this to work. I downloaded the file and unzipped it, copied it to my FSX drive and copied the flight plan to the My Docs\FSX folder with all my other flight plans.I double click on the FSXMarkII fsx.exe app and FSX starts and I am over Boston with the sim paused, I unpause the sim and the plane starts flying, but the test does not end after five minutes it just keeps going until I close FSX and the Excel spread included in the download is never updated.What am I missing?

Are you sure Fraps is set as required?(I assume you mean FSXMarkII flight when you say "FSXMarkII fsx.exe app")

My experience with the BLK has been a mixed bag. On one the hand everything is faster, my mouse, printer, soundcard ......hell, even my case is faster with the BLK switch. All this tells me that the BLK is pumping some serious particles through my system, maybe even more than it can handle. But it's faster!On the other hand I don't like the double post boot I get with the BLK feature -Is it looking for a memory timming it can live with? I dunno, but it's annoying as hell.So, in a nutshell I use the rounded off multiplier that is 100 (100x50).

I can not get this to work. I downloaded the file and unzipped it, copied it to my FSX drive and copied the flight plan to the My Docs\FSX folder with all my other flight plans.I double click on the FSXMarkII fsx.exe app and FSX starts and I am over Boston with the sim paused, I unpause the sim and the plane starts flying, but the test does not end after five minutes it just keeps going until I close FSX and the Excel spread included in the download is never updated.What am I missing?

I dont think FSX will stop. Only the FRAPS benchmark will stop. Press ESC to end the flight. The result can be found in the FRAPS folder in the FRAPSLOG.

re: "pure" FSX cfgMy system will crash without the himem tweak, and possibly without a bufferpool alteration.

Alain,It's interesting to notice the slight difference with super-pi results between the i7 980x and the i7 2600k with lower RAM.According to your results with FSXMark11 FSX seems to prefer the i980 though

Faster CPU GHz = faster SuperPi test, SuperPi test is to see if your memory can run without problems at the speed your CPU is at and the timing your memory is set at.The only thing I can see as an advantage between the 2600K and the 980X for FSX is 2 more core for the 980X and DDR3 triple chanel for the memory.Also, high MHz and lower timing on the memory is a winning combination, as Nick explained it here....-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

SAMPLES OF MEMORY SPEED/TIMING

Here is a list of MAX memory timing per speed a user should strive for.. lower than posted is better and there are memory product out there that run lower timing than posted.. they are typically expensive and that is what you pay forDDR2 800 4-4-4DDR2 1066 5-5-5DDR3 1333 6-6-6 (1st or 2nd Generation)DDR3 1600 7-7-7 (1st or 2nd Generation)DDR3 1800/1866 8-8-8 (1st or 2nd Generation)DDR3 2000 (and up) 9-9-9 (1st or 2nd Generation) That being said here are the values a user SHOULD look for in order to obtain highest FSX performance with respect to CPU/Memory communicationDDR2 800 3-3-3DDR2 1066 4-4-4DDR3 1333 5-5-5 (1st or 2nd Generation)DDR3 1600 6-6-6 (1st or 2nd Generation)DDR3 1800/1866 7-7-7 (1st or 2nd Generation) Note: 1800/1866 is really useless compared to 1600 with respect to the right memory timing. If a user wishes to run very high memory speed, opt for 2000 with tighter timing especially running i7. 1st generation DDR3 has issues with the northbridge running large amounts of memory (2x2GB or more). i7 D0 stepping processors and the x58 chipset do not have those issues but still typically requires a higher QPI/DRAM (over 1.37v) to accomplish which can be dangerous to the life of a processor. DDR3 2000 7-7-7 (1st or 2nd Generation) 8-8-8 can be used however 7-7-7 is FAR better. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------I've enable HT and tried to run the test .....smoother flight but I got BSOD after 60sec., I'll be able to stabilize the rig with HT on but I'll need to much core voltage to do so and at 4677.4GHz I'm already flirting with danger here because of the QPI/vtt voltage needled to have my memory stable at that speed (1.457v eeeee).

OK, It is great to see the results coming in. First off, here are the results from an older generation Q6600 at 2.7 Ghz:Frames Time (ms) Min Max Avg4156 300000 8 18 13.853 The answers are showing that the 2600K with the best overclocking/tuning are somewhere near 40 fps average but Alainneedle1 is all by himself with his super-duper 980X that is somehow faster than anything else (>50fps) - even though I believe other 980X systems will perform just about equivalent to the 2600K. Later this week I will try to run (they are not my PCs) FSXMark11 on a 980Xat4.0Ghz and a [email protected], both with modest memory timings - 1333Mhz. I previously ran an FSX benchmark with identical settings on these two PCs and the 2600K was 10->20% faster than the 980X. Alain has somehow found the ultimate combination - would that we all could climb that mountain top!

Thanks for the Benchmark......One test is worth a thousand expert opinions!Core i5-660 @ 4560 MHzFSXMark11, Display Settings Cfg: 27.821 fps avgHLJAMES

Please provide the FSXMark11 results for your 2600K! You seem to have one of the best since your FSXMark07 results were 90 fps!

From an E8400:3544 300000 9 18 11.813This isn't entirely accurate there was a virus scan running in the background and I discovered that I've lost all my ocean near Boston so it was rendering an ocean of forest autogen.

From an E8400:3544 300000 9 18 11.813This isn't entirely accurate there was a virus scan running in the background and I discovered that I've lost all my ocean near Boston so it was rendering an ocean of forest autogen.

Hi,If you use your FTX central to switch back and forth a few times between Australia and default (and North America if you have it) and start FSX each time, you should be able to set it all right again. Then if you set it on default FSX, that should be what you will get and your ocean will return.Kind regards,

Alain,It's interesting to notice the slight difference with super-pi results between the i7 980x and the i7 2600k with lower RAM.According to your results with FSXMark11 FSX seems to prefer the i980 though

I just saw something.....your memory is running at 2T....better to run them at 1T.Change it in bios to 1T and test it.

I just reinstalled FSX. New results:Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg 15174, 300000, 30, 64, 50.580Then I tested with memos set to 2133MHz 8-10-10-27Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg 15926, 300000, 33, 66, 53.087I don't see that kind of performance boost with memory overclock in the PMDG744Alain, do you own the PMDG744?EDIT: that was with a tweaked FSX.CFG and UsePools=0with [bufferPools]UsePools=1RejectThreshold=98304PoolSize=8388608Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg 11851, 300000, 23, 62, 39.503

Are you sure Fraps is set as required?(I assume you mean FSXMarkII flight when you say "FSXMarkII fsx.exe app")

Thanks David, I need to install FRAPS.To OP, since not everyone knows this it should be added to the instructions that you have to download and install FRAPS along with any special instructions to set up FRAPS for this test.For now I will use the instructions to set up FRAPS that were included in the FSXMARK07 zip file that I found, hopefully those will work for this.

Thanks David, I need to install FRAPS.To OP, since not everyone knows this it should be added to the instructions that you have to download and install FRAPS along with any special instructions to set up FRAPS for this test.For now I will use the instructions to set up FRAPS that were included in the FSXMARK07 zip file that I found, hopefully those will work for this.

It's on page 2 of the guide