5ghz overclock

[Sumer 0]

What benefits would a 4.8 ghz overclock on ivy bridge gove to fs other than fps. Better texture loadig? Better autogen loading?

[Anxu00 176]

If you can get it that high without doing things like deliding, water cooled etc, and you pair it up with a GTX 680, then the result is a smooth sim. With just the CPU, not much over sandy bridge. FSX is CPU bound so you will gain in faster processing speed. Texture loading is I/O bound. I would suggest forgetting about ivy and wait and see what Haswell has to offer.

[Sumer 0]

If you can get it that high without doing things like deliding, water cooled etc, and you pair it up with a GTX 680, then the result is a smooth sim. With just the CPU, not much over sandy bridge. FSX is CPU bound so you will gain in faster processing speed. Texture loading is I/O bound. I would suggest forgetting about ivy and wait and see what Haswell has to offer.

 

I don't think i was clear enough, I do have a galaxy geforce gtx 580 oced, 16gb ddr3 ram , ssd ocz vertex 4 128gb, ivy bridge i5 3570k.. h220 water cooling..what are the benefits? :s what do u mean b I/O BOUND?

[PieEater 10]

I'd suggest at best you're going to get a 4% performance increase mainly in FPS but only if your system is stable at that speed, there is always a chance you will introduce instabilities which will obviously have a negative impact on overall performance. Even if all went well I very much doubt you'd physically notice any difference at all.

 

I/O refers to the rate at which data can be transferred between the CPU and the rest of the computers components i.e. Hard Disk. I guess what Anxu00 is refering to is that it is possible that Haswell and any new chipsets created for it will reduce any existing I/O bottlenecks making texture loading in FSX more efficient.

[Crewecut 1]

So many variables in pc components, run FSXmark, do the OC and run it again. And be sure to tell us all about it :wink: