Hi all!

 

Currently my specs are a Core2Duo E7500 @2900 (stock), 4Gb DDR800, ATI HD5770 1Gb and I'm looking forward to this upgrade:

 

(Memory will be 2x4, not 1x8 as shown)

 

As for the graphics card, it will be upgraded in a few months, probably to a GTX660.

 

Although, I'm still a bit apprehensive on choosing this i5 instead of a FX 8350. This is mainly because despite everyone talking great things about the Intel chips, I'm still to find a report proving the 3570k is powerful enough for FSX+addons, instead I read some posts here and there of 3570k owners reporting they have i.e. 15-20fps on heavy sceneries with low autogen, low AI traffic, etc...

Here and here I see two nice testimonies on the AMD's side. Also other people on other forums are talking good things about the 8350.

 

I'm mainly looking into flying with addons like NGX, MJC Q400, REX, AI traffic (AIG packages for that matter), some Aerosoft's Mega Airports and alike.

 

According to those 8350 reports, can the 3570k really beat the AMD chip?

 

Thanks in advance!

Hello Ricardo,<br /><br />I'll let those more knowledgeable than me comment on your hardware questions, but may I be the first to welcome you to our community. May your time in Avsim be rewarding and helpful in the betterment of your hobby.<br /><br />Kind regards,

Intel is better, due to the fact that the cpu has fewer but faster cores. FSX can only use one or two cores at a time. The i5 has 4 fast cores, while the amd has 8 slower cores. The computer that I have in my sig can fly through orbx with a carenado plane, and get 30 frames locked, with high sliders and traffic. This is with Hyper Threading disabled, making the processor almost the same as the i5.

Ricardo

It looks like AMD may be getting their act together finally and that FX 8350 (with the correct motherboard - make sure the mobo you choose is of the latest type for that cpu) has good benchmark figures on most benchmark sites. The GTX 660 may be slightly underpowered for that cpu (fine for the i5) and you may want to consider a GTX 670 or (as a lot of gamers are finding out) an AMD 79xx series which will compliment the processor.

If I were buying I'd still go for a higher end i7 37xxK series but in comparison to the i5 IMHO the FX 8350 is the better buy subject to my comments above.

Regards

pH

i5 3570 is more powerful at stock then the amd 8350 overclocked at 4.8. Still, if you run things down the middle on settings either will do, but you want high end settings intel the way to go. 

Thanks for your answers! :smile:

 

Guess I'll go for this:

 

 

Ricardo
It looks like AMD may be getting their act together finally and that FX 8350 (with the correct motherboard - make sure the mobo you choose is of the latest type for that cpu) has good benchmark figures on most benchmark sites. The GTX 660 may be slightly underpowered for that cpu (fine for the i5) and you may want to consider a GTX 670 or (as a lot of gamers are finding out) an AMD 79xx series which will compliment the processor.
If I were buying I'd still go for a higher end i7 37xxK series but in comparison to the i5 IMHO the FX 8350 is the better buy subject to my comments above.
Regards
pH

 

I know the 8350 is doing really well on other games, but FSX is a whole different beast.

AFAIK, the 3570k is basically a 3770k with no HT and a few less cache (2Mb) and FSX really makes no use of HT. Bear in mind this is all I've been reading, so if I'm actually wrong please correct me. :smile:

Ricardo

You are correct in your assumptions - mine was just an opinion on the 2 choices that you gave us. FSX requires a fast powerful balanced (clean) system so whatever you choose should be just that.

Good Luck

pH

FSX is using only one core for running its systems and the other cores are being just for terrain threads.  

 

The faster the cpu's clockspeeds the higher the fps, because the framerate is connected to the speed of core 0 ( the first cpu core ).

The other cores are helping building up the terrain ( read : direct infuence to stutters ) .

 

However if you have an AMD cpu which already gives a nice framerate , than you will benefit from all extra cores, especially if you have a FX-8150 which has 8 cores.  

 

It's all about balance between hardware, software and settings...