Would you mind testing how much faster you can load tings with your 3930K compared to a i5 Sandy bridge? (disregaring the small improvements the actual design of SB-E gives over regular SB)

 

1. Run your computer at 5GHz with HT on.

2. Use an LOD setting of 6.5 or higher.

3. Use AM=4089

4. Load a flight saved flight that you have.

5. Exit FSX with ctrl+c

6. Fire up FSX and load the same flight again. Time with a stopwatch how long time it takes

7. Exit FSX with ctrl+c again

8. Change AM to 84

9. Fire up FSX once more and load the same flight again and time it.

10. Post the times here and tell us the difference.

 

I'm very certain there will be one.

but at normal gameplay speed, it really makes no noticiable difference .

I don't know, maybe for low (and very, very fast) flying over complex photoscenery

Ok, I'm still on the Nehalem architecture and I do know that SandyBridge and IvyBridge are both quite a bit faster. But on my i7 860 I clearly see the difference of using HT to boost texture loading during gameplay when I fly over the photo scenery. (It doesn't even have to be at that high speed now that I've noticed the difference.) Texture loading is far from fast enough at the moment. I can clearly see this when I pause the game and wait for the texture tiles to sharpen fully before I continue. I pause the game quite often just to let the texture loading cach up. This is what I experience in game. Not through slewing. I just designed the slewing thing to be able to messure it properly. If I don't use high-res photo scenery I rerely see the differrence with texture loading even with my lynnfield. So then I stick with HT off.

 

It might be that an 3770K might do this fast enough but I still think I would see the difference with a 3930K. And also, High LOD photo scenery takes ages to load. The 3930K helps with that as well.

You may be right. Truth is I never tested over photoscenery. I think my next upgrade will be Haswell-E just to test all this stuff

What's annoying me at the moment is that Intel don't give us more than 4 cores at the highest IPC architecture. It might be that Haswell is out before we even see IvyBridge-E leaving the high end platform 2 generations behind for a short while. I don't want to choose between many cores and the highest IPC. I want both. Then it would just be a matter of tweaking the AM to what you prefer at the moment. Highest FPS or shortest load time. Now you pay a big premium for the high end platform but you still get the older architecture. :angry:

Saab,

 

I have decided to use TileProxy quite extensively. Being that I have my 3770K running at 5.0Ghz with 2400 mem, would I benefit from perhaps enabling HT on my CPU even if I have to drop my OC to say 4.8 or 4.9 due to having HT enabled?

 

If yes, what should my AM be set to?

 

Or should I just leave HT off even for TileProxy?

 

 

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It will be interesting to see how the extra execution ports and improved cache bandwidth in Haswell plays with FSX. I know I'm really due an upgrade but I'd hate to find out that Haswell is a lot faster for FPS in FSX over SB-E. By the look of things the high end might be the same architecture as the middle class when Haswell-E comes out given that Broadwell don't seems to be comming to the middle class just as Westmere never really made it to middle class. But that's almost two years away...

Saab,

 

I have decided to use TileProxy quite extensively. Being that I have my 3770K running at 5.0Ghz with 2400 mem, would I benefit from perhaps enabling HT on my CPU even if I have to drop my OC to say 4.8 or 4.9 due to having HT enabled?

 

If yes, what should my AM be set to?

 

Or should I just leave HT off even for TileProxy?

 

 

- Sent from my rooted, Verizon Samsung Galaxy Nexus LTE smartphone via Tapatalk because haters gonna hate.

I would guess TileProxy would be able to make good use of HT for improving image quality. You should give it a try. As always, you won't get higher FPS. And you'll most likely have to drop your overclock and voltage a bit in order to be stable with HT on.

Can you set the affinity of TileProxy?

How much CPU load does TileProxy generate?

I'd try with AM=249 to start with and if possible assign Tile Proxy core#4-core#7 or one of them.

I would assume the extra cores of a 3930K would work even better in this case.

 

The photo scenery I use have 60cm per pixel resolution.

I would guess TileProxy would be able to make good use of HT for improving image quality. You should give it a try. As always, you won't get higher FPS. And you'll most likely have to drop your overclock and voltage a bit in order to be stable with HT on.

Can you set the affinity of TileProxy?

How much CPU load does TileProxy generate?

I'd try with AM=249 to start with and if possible assign Tile Proxy core#4-core#7 or one of them.

I would assume the extra cores of a 3930K would work even better in this case.

 

The photo scenery I use have 60cm per pixel resolution.

 

Ok, I will give this a shot and let you know how it goes. BTW, how does one go about setting affinity to TileProxy?

 

As for how much load TileProxy generates, I'll get back to you on that as well.

 

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Sorry for hijacking your thread DerStig