August 16, 201114 yr Hi all,I am about to upgrade my system,I currently have a AMD6400+ BE 4GB of pc6400 and a 9800GTX+2x WD Sata drives 7200500w power supply.I am just about to buy: i5 2500K ,MSI p67 GD53 , Corsair Vengeance Blue 4GB (2x2GB) + cooler master hyper 212 plus.For now I will have to keep my 9800GTX + (will this hold me back in FSX??)How hard will it be for me to get to 4.5/5.0 GHz but OC??Mark
August 16, 201114 yr It may bottle neck the CPU. Ryzen 5 1600x - 16GB DDR4 - RTX 3050 8GB - MSI Gaming Plus
August 16, 201114 yr Unless you're stubbornly waiting for Kepler like I am, I would pick up a GTX 560 if at all possible. Getting 4.5GHz is about as easy as increasing the multiplier in the BIOS. Corey Meeks FS2020 | AMD 7800X3D | ASUS ProArt 4080 Super | ASUS B650E-I Mini ITX | 2x32Gb DDR5-6000 CL32 | DELL 38" U3818DW (3840x1600) | FormD T1 | Thermalright AXP90-47 | Thermaltake Toughpower SFX 1000W
August 16, 201114 yr Author My 9800GTX+ 512 is about 2/3 years old so how can the i5 2500K be the bottle neck?
August 16, 201114 yr My 9800GTX+ 512 is about 2/3 years old so how can the i5 2500K be the bottle neck? He means the 9800GTX+ will bottleneck the CPU, not the other way around. I'm sure you will get a nice perf boost even if you keep your 9800GTX+. Then later when you can, get a better GPU and crank up your IQ settings :)
August 16, 201114 yr He means the 9800GTX+ will bottleneck the CPU, not the other way around. I'm sure you will get a nice perf boost even if you keep your 9800GTX+. Then later when you can, get a better GPU and crank up your IQ settings :) Ya I meant the 9800GTX may bottleneck the CPU, the 9800GTX is powerful no doubt. Ryzen 5 1600x - 16GB DDR4 - RTX 3050 8GB - MSI Gaming Plus
August 16, 201114 yr How hard will it be for me to get to 4.5/5.0 GHz but OC??Almost every chip will be able to reach 4.5 on reasonable voltage. Very, very, very few will reach 5GHz or more without crazy vcore. i7 2600k @ 5.1Ghz, ASUS Sabertooth P67, 8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600Mhz, EVGA GTX 580 @ 950MHz, OCZ Vertex II 240GB, ASUS Xonar DG, Thermaltake Toughpower XT 875W PSU, Antec KÜHLER 620 W/C, Corsair 600T SE White My FS9 Screens - http://fs9screens.blogspot.com/ Callum Richardson
August 16, 201114 yr Author i am sure at times we have all be chaseing more fps/ghz, Would we really see the difference between 4.5 & 5.0Ghz? I all trying my very best to get my wife to let me buy a 560Ti or maybe even a 570GTX. ( She still need some persuading/ dinner cooked for her. ) Mark
August 16, 201114 yr Would we really see the difference between 4.5 & 5.0Ghz?There is a fairly substantial difference actually, yes. That's not to say 4.5 won't run FSX very, very well, because it will. The extra 500MHz only really comes up trumps in those few extreme situations where the sim is really struggling (think PMDG into FSDT, with a ton of road/boat traffic, and on vatsim). i7 2600k @ 5.1Ghz, ASUS Sabertooth P67, 8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600Mhz, EVGA GTX 580 @ 950MHz, OCZ Vertex II 240GB, ASUS Xonar DG, Thermaltake Toughpower XT 875W PSU, Antec KÜHLER 620 W/C, Corsair 600T SE White My FS9 Screens - http://fs9screens.blogspot.com/ Callum Richardson
August 16, 201114 yr There is a fairly substantial difference actually, yes. That's not to say 4.5 won't run FSX very, very well, because it will. The extra 500MHz only really comes up trumps in those few extreme situations where the sim is really struggling (think PMDG into FSDT, with a ton of road/boat traffic, and on vatsim). Just my laptop having to display that thought has got the CPU fan on full! Di Agron Dell XPS 15 L502X | Intel i5-2540m @ 2.60GHz | 4GB DDR3 1333MHz (2x2GB) | nVidia GT525M | Seagate 500GB 7200RPM | 15" 1366x768 | 23" LG 1360x768 | Got a hardware question? Ask: HERE (Mobo's, Ram, CPU's, custom builds, general hardware etc) HERE (Graphics cards, monitors, drivers etc) HERE (Peripherals/Hardware and related drivers) HERE (Internet/Networking) PMDG FMC NavData out of date message fix HERE
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