Quick way to get more frames? Move your mouse to the upper left corner of your screen over the 'strange' light sensor window gauge thingy.

Love the techical thingie jargon Overclocking is definately the way to go, I have my i7 980x running at over 4.4ghz.Depends on motherboard, cheap ones wont be able to do as much as the pricier onesAny overclocking needs a better air or liquid cooler and you need to moniter temps using Real Temp utilityEditJust read further comments and see you have a pre-built pc which is probably very limiting. Most however can still access the BIOS for other functions, you should look for the Cpu Configuration and Bus Speed options, I think the i7 920 is the same as the 980 and its called a BCLK speed, usually 133mhz, this is multiplied by the Multiplier which is 20 in your case though the cpu has a turbo mode which when at load will change to 21 or 22. The 980 extreme cpu is 133 x 25 but the multiplier is unlocked so it can be raised which is a more stable method of raising the overall clock speed as changing the BCLK also raised the speed of your ram which is more subject to causing crashes if too high. Better motherboards however allow you to change the multiplier of the ram. If I raise for example my BCLK to 175mhz that will make my cpu 4375mhx (175x25) but the memory will also go up, it uses a different multiplier, normally multiples of 2 in my case with default x12 so my 1600 DDR3 (133 x 12) will change to 175 x 12 = 2100 which of course will crash the pc so changing down to 10x will make it 1750 or even 8x is 1400 etc. This is why extreme cpus cost a fortune as they are extremely flexible, allowing you to raise or lower BLCK and Multipliers to get the optimum setting. Hope this helps

Love the techical thingie jargon Depends on motherboard, cheap ones wont be able to do as much as the pricier ones

That's just not true.

That's just not true.

It is within limits, a £30 motherboard wont have half the functions that a £150-200 will. I just built a basic system for the girlfriend using some older disused parts I had, got an AsRock MB for £40, will do the job for Office and Internet but it quickly became clear there was no voltage control what so ever for the cpu, northbridge etc, there was something like 4 preset voltages for the memory which was only just high enough for the memory which I put into it.I used to use cheap boards but when it came to overclocking you need to spend a reasonable amount of money on them, the x58 boards are pricey anyway for the i7s

Hi,I have an Acer FX58M motherboard. Can I overclock the CPU with that ?David

http://www.overclockers.com/forums/

Hi,I have an Acer FX58M motherboard. Can I overclock the CPU with that ?David

Is this an Acer prebuilt computer?

A few tips: Do not use the MAX 2x water effect, because this will highly decrease your FPS, even when you're not around water areas. I suggest you use LOW 2x because this will give you similar eye candy with better performanceDo not use light bloom if you have a bad craphics card, this can reduce FPS a LOTAI Traffic is a real FPS killer, don't put it to high.As you have an ATI card, and ATI cards are not so good at clouds, make sure that your cloud draw distance is set to 60 miles, and cloud density to medium.Mesh complexity can also reduce FPS a lot, set it to about 80.If you're having microstutters, I suggest using an external frame limiter and set your frames externally to 30 fps. It's very important to keep your FPS in FSX set to Unlimited, if you do otherwise the frame rate will also be reduced a lot.If you don't have a prebuilt pc like a Dell, HP or Acer, then you can overclock your processor (CPU), by going into the BIOS. You can go into the BIOS by pressing delete as soon as you boot up your computer. Somewhere in there you can adjust you baseclock, multiplier and voltages. As you say that you are not experienced with overclocking, I recommend watching some overclock tutorial on YouTube (for you specific CPU only), and make sure that the video has a lot of likes (this means the overclock is probably a good one). If you increase your base clock, you also have to lower your memory ratio, increase your voltages, turn off spread spectrum, turn off all power savers (like C1E, C3 and C6), and turn off Hyper Threading because this will not make a difference in FSX. If your Hyperthreading function is off, make sure that your affinitymask setting in the FSX.cfg is set to 14. As FSX is very CPU dependant, overclocking will definately make a lot of difference. Overclocking is actually the only way to increase FPS a lot. All the other things will only make minor differences. Buying a new computer is definately the way to go here.I suggest an i5 2500k (overclock it afterwards), an GTX560TI, 8GB RAM, 700W power supply, and a seperate HDD for FSX. I highly recommend an Asus motherboard with the Z68 chipsets. If you got all this, you can basicly run pretty much anything you throw at it at max settings.

Is this an Acer prebuilt computer?

Yes, it is.David

Yes, it is.David

Then you are probably going to be very limited in your overclocking agenda.Can you go to the BIOS and see what you have in there for overclocking? Make some pics with a camera?

Then you are probably going to be very limited in your overclocking agenda.Can you go to the BIOS and see what you have in there for overclocking? Make some pics with a camera?

Hello Word Not Allowed!Here are the two pictures.http://www.multiupload.com/93S21CALYPhttp://www.multiupload.com/S5EZ8TRBSWSorry, I do not now how to load up pictures here on the forum....I think there should be a mode for overclocking be avaible at the upper left corner in the BIOS, but it is not there.Have you an idea?David

it would be under advanced bios features i think.

Video Card upgrade would help too. The CPU accounts for about 75 percent of the FPS but not to forget that the other 25 percent comes from the video card.

it would be under advanced bios features i think.

I have also tried this out, but it is not.David

I have also tried this out, but it is not.David

It's not called overclocking.I think it's Frequency/Voltage Control. Go into that and make a pic.

It's not called overclocking.I think it's Frequency/Voltage Control. Go into that and make a pic.

it would be under advanced bios features i think.

Hi!I looked at both options, but I think it is also not there.http://www.multiupload.com/5IYKSDJE0Thttp://www.multiupload.com/LY4KZCEGELI think, I have to buy a new PC...David