Is this worth the upgade at $180.00.

 

Look at my signature and you will see what CPU I am running now....

 

 

Looking to make FS11 a smoother experience.

 

Thans

 

Randy

The reviews and benchmarks don't show the BD as a performer. You are better off with the 965. I am only saying no to BD because of the reviews. Personally I do not know how good they perform in real life.

Your AM3 mobo will not support BD anyway, it requires an AM3+.

 

FSX needs good IPC which the AMD's especially BD lacks.

 

OC that 965 to around 3.8 which I feel is a sweet spot for the Phenom X4 series. You may need a better card for better visual experience.

 

So if you are planning to upgrade than I suggest an i5 2500k which should be a good budget system or an i5 3xxx something, these will rock FSX and you will not look back,

Without overclocking no. with overclocking in FSX it will do better. But you will need 4.4 Gig or more.

I am running a stock 8150, and I'm quite pleased with it. I can get around 15 FPS with scenery, autogen maxed and all traffic at 50%, water high 2x, REX HD textures, Project Airbus A320 on the ground at KLGA. In flight, I can easily get 50-85 fps.

You need to OC that chip.

The 3 most important things that a PC for FSX needs are:

 

1. An overclocked i5-K or i7-K ('K' type) Intel CPU with as much Ghz as possible (4.3 - 4.5 Ghz or more) : it will NEVER be enough since FSX eats Ghz for breakfast.

2. An NVIDIA videocard. The minimum is the GTX-560 TI. Higher is better for use with higher antialiasing settings and less loss of framerate in dense clouded weather or stutter in extremely dense scenery.

3. Word Not Allowed's 'Software and Hardware Guide':

 

http://#####...hardware-guide/

 

 

To have a locked constant frame rate of 30 or better, in FSX, with lots of addons, ALL sliders maxed, everything ON (yes: also Light Bloom and all the traffic (aircraft, planes and cars)) in ALL circumstances like heavy clouded stormy weather, at or above very heavy dense scenery with a plane like the PMDG 737 NGX, you need a CPU with a clockspeed of AT LEAST 8 Ghz.

 

So as this won't be available in the first years enjoy your Word Not Allowed tuned smooth flying FSX with it's 20 to 30 frames until we all have something like P3D 2.0 (?) or maybe another new player on the market .... ^_^

Ivy Bridge @ 5 GHz + NVIDIA GTX 680 = ultimate FSX experience.

 

AMD is a bad performer in general (the CPUs at least), but they're just not made for FSX. A CPU upgrade would require a new mobo anyway, so why not going Intel right away? :Big Grin:

I agree go with Intel IB and smile, I will be upgrading to an IB later purely for FSX, my phenom is good for all day to day work and 25-30 fps of fsx . But I want a smoother experience and I am going to generate some sceneries in my free time.

 

 

Go with intel