Hi Folks,

I have a 2600k sandy bridge CPU running at 4.6Ghz. I also have a GeForce 570 with 1.5Gigs of memory. Will I see much improvement with FSX upgrading to the 670 with 2 gigs? Or perhaps I should go for a CPU upgrade?

 

I do play a lot of games but FSX is the only thing that could use a little help. I'm also running at 2560x1600.

 

Your help is appreciated!

 

-Ivan

Bueller???

 

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Hi Ivan,

 

Nothing wrong at all with your CPU so I wouldn't bother upgrading that at the moment. Supposedly we should be getting the new batch of Intel Processors around April so I would be holding out for that.

 

As for the GPU, the 570 is still a good card. From an FSX point of view I really don't think you would notice much difference. You may gain a few fps or be able to push higher AA settings for the same FPS but otherwise I'd maybe try push the OC on your CPU a little higher if your looking for FPS.

Thanks for your suggestion. It is exactly what I was worried about I'd hate to spend $400 to get a barely noticeable improvement. I have a water cooling solution which I have yet to install. I'll definitely try to push the CPU a little higher.

 

Thanks again!

 

Best regards,

-Ivan

Expect a small performance increase, but not too much. WIth low - average AA, maybe 5% more. With high AA, that's where the 670 starts to shine a bit more.

Upgraded from a GTX480 to GTX680, as it will be one piece of my new rig I will build in January, but I was really disapointed.

With same AA I get 1-2 fps more in heavy clouds and pushing AA higher, I don't see much difference with GTX680 though.

 

Perhaps my old i7-920 @ 4,2 GHz is the bottleneck here.

I'm going 570 to 680 but just for the nvidia surround.

Upgraded from a GTX480 to GTX680, as it will be one piece of my new rig I will build in January, but I was really disapointed.

With same AA I get 1-2 fps more in heavy clouds and pushing AA higher, I don't see much difference with GTX680 though.

 

Perhaps my old i7-920 @ 4,2 GHz is the bottleneck here.

 

What AA is "the same AA" mats? Your I7 920 is not that old. FSX is old, and you will find that AA-wise, it doesn't matter what CPU you're running, at a certain point, with SGSS your 680 should do much better than that 480.

I have a 2600k sandy bridge CPU running at 4.6Ghz. I also have a GeForce 570 with 1.5Gigs of memory. Will I see much improvement with FSX upgrading to the 670 with 2 gigs? Or perhaps I should go for a CPU upgrade?

 

I do play a lot of games but FSX is the only thing that could use a little help. I'm also running at 2560x1600.

 

what are you trying to achieve? FSX is notorious for being very CPU bound, but can't take advantage (FPS wise at least) of more than 3 or 4 cores, so there's not much you can do to improve your CPU power. If you play other games and you run such a resolution, then yeah, it may pay off to upgrade to a GTX670. That should also help you run better AA modes in FSX, but don't expect better frame rates in heavy scenery like third party airports and the likes

wait the gtx 770 coming next summer

I didn't upgrade the way you are considering but FWIW I went from an Asus 560 1 GB to an Asus 660Ti 2 GB and at the same time exchanged my Vraptor 150 GB for a Samsung 830 256 GB SSD. The only difference I've noticed, which also was expected, was quicker load of FSX and textures. but the 660 didn't really make any difference. I am using that setting with 1/2 refresh sync with fps locked at 30 fps in Nvidia inspector and had a stable 30 fps already with the old hardware.

 

One extremely simply change though that really really brought new life to the sim was changing the settings on the monitor so that it's much darker now! :wub:

 

wait the gtx 770 coming next summer

And the 870 is coming next fall and the 970 next spring...

What AA is "the same AA" mats? Your I7 920 is not that old. FSX is old, and you will find that AA-wise, it doesn't matter what CPU you're running, at a certain point, with SGSS your 680 should do much better than that 480.

Hello Dario,

 

AA settings are 8xSQ with 2x SGSS.

My thought was, the GTX680 would perform even better in heavy weather than my old gpu, especially with SGSS activated, but heavy clouds are still a framekiller so far.

Come to think of it, my old setup did run into fps issues with heavy clouds in ORBX country but I haven't noticed that anymore.

Hello Dario,

 

AA settings are 8xSQ with 2x SGSS.

My thought was, the GTX680 would perform even better in heavy weather than my old gpu, especially with SGSS activated, but heavy clouds are still a framekiller so far.

 

Well, the right combination for 2xSGSS in my book is 8xS not 8xSQ, but then again that was also valid for Fermi

Well, the right combination for 2xSGSS in my book is 8xS not 8xSQ, but then again that was also valid for Fermi

After some testing the problem is rather SGSS than AA on my system, even with GTX680.

Heavy clouds are still a killer with SGSS enabled, with 8xS instead of 8x SQ and 2xSGSS there's nearly any difference here.