April 3, 201412 yr Thanks for confirming my thoughts. I will wait for the i7 4790K and the Z97 board! And switch the SSD's for some M.2 versions. With the upcoming 2.2 patch in mind I can honestly say that the future looks brighter than ever!!! I always find that the most fun part is doing the research and building the computer. Once you've had it up an running for a week or two you start wanting a new one Hard to keep up the level of satisfaction in this material world of ours! Simmerhead - Making the virtual skies unsafe since 1987!
April 3, 201412 yr When I wrote that, I considered 4,5 a modest OC. If he was a hardcore overclocker, he wouldt even consider Noctua air- or close liquidcoolers:-) However, I fully agree, pushing the limits with full liquid cooling or even nitro, the MB would actually be the one piece I would spend the most money on... A 4.5 stable OC on a Haswell chip is not "modest" - it is very good.
April 3, 201412 yr Hard to keep up the level of satisfaction in this material world of ours! I consider a computer a tool ... in my case a professional tool ... and I gotta have my tools And speaking of tools, I'm looking into getting a BlackMagic Designs 4K video capture card that will be in a separate computer that I can use to capture 4K output so as to put NO stress on my main FS computer. I just can't see my main computer being able to work well trying to capture 4K and work P3D ... it's already struggling to record 2560 x 1600 at 30 fps. Cheers, Rob.
April 3, 201412 yr I consider a computer a tool ... in my case a professional tool ... and I gotta have my tools quote] Lucky you. To me it is 100% indulgence... My Apple MAC's are business expenses though Simmerhead - Making the virtual skies unsafe since 1987!
April 3, 201412 yr My Apple MAC's are business expenses though So are my Macs, they're computers too ya know ... hehe I just wish Apple cared a little more about the desktop power user ... almost 4 years before they came out with a new MacPro ... and it's still slower than my Windows box ... grrr. But as far as desktop OS's go, I do really like OSX -- by far my favorite OS ... I just wish Microsoft would take a close look at OSX and see just how good it is at NOT getting in one's way and just getting the job done. Cheers, Rob.
March 16, 201511 yr So, I was planning to upgrade my computer to a 4790k from a 2500k. I have been reading performance will not be that signicant? Right now running at 4.4 ghz Should I wait for the next revision of hardware? Can't really fathom 450 aud (processor alone only!) for negligible improvement? Is there a spreadsheet with some stats? Thanks. Soarbywire - Avionics Engineering
March 16, 201511 yr I consider a computer a tool ... in my case a professional tool ... and I gotta have my tools And speaking of tools, I'm looking into getting a BlackMagic Designs 4K video capture card that will be in a separate computer that I can use to capture 4K output so as to put NO stress on my main FS computer. I just can't see my main computer being able to work well trying to capture 4K and work P3D ... it's already struggling to record 2560 x 1600 at 30 fps. Cheers, Rob. That can't be cheap https://fsprocedures.com Your home for all flight simulator related checklist.
March 16, 201511 yr So, I was planning to upgrade my computer to a 4790k from a 2500k. I have been reading performance will not be that signicant? Right now running at 4.4 ghz Should I wait for the next revision of hardware? Can't really fathom 450 aud (processor alone only!) for negligible improvement? Is there a spreadsheet with some stats? Thanks. I think it will be significant. 4.4 is default turbo on the 4790K... you could easily go to 4.6 and it will be far faster than your 2500k. Still I'd probably wait for Intel's Tock cycle of new microarchitecture... skylake. Not sure when it just says 2015 release. | My Liveries | FAA ZMP | PPL ASEL | | Windows 11 | MSI Z690 Tomahawk | 12700K 4.7GHz | MSI RTX 4080 | 64GB 6000 MHz DDR5 | 500GB Samsung 860 Evo SSD | 2x 2TB Samsung 970 Evo M.2 | EVGA 850W Gold | Corsair 5000X | HP G2 (VR) / LG 27" 1440p |
March 17, 201511 yr Any idea how much of an FPS/performance increase we would find from using a 4790k vs a 2500k? I can alternatively try and supercool my chip and OC up to 4.6 ghz with my 2500k Soarbywire - Avionics Engineering
March 17, 201511 yr Not entirely sure. A stock clock on the 4790K is probably like a sandy at 5+ GHz | My Liveries | FAA ZMP | PPL ASEL | | Windows 11 | MSI Z690 Tomahawk | 12700K 4.7GHz | MSI RTX 4080 | 64GB 6000 MHz DDR5 | 500GB Samsung 860 Evo SSD | 2x 2TB Samsung 970 Evo M.2 | EVGA 850W Gold | Corsair 5000X | HP G2 (VR) / LG 27" 1440p |
March 17, 201511 yr Not entirely sure. A stock clock on the 4790K is probably like a sandy at 5+ GHz Then we are only talking a few % increase in performance for an expensive upgrade (new motherboard and processor). I guess I will wait until the next chips come out. Soarbywire - Avionics Engineering
March 17, 201511 yr So, I was planning to upgrade my computer to a 4790k from a 2500k. I have been reading performance will not be that signicant? Right now running at 4.4 ghz Word Not Allowed asked me to do some testing of my 5960X to answer his similar question ... basic idea is to try and remove GPU intensive tasks as much as possible via settings: http://www.prepar3d.com/forum-5/topic/cpu-performance-testing/ I posted results at the end, not sure if that answered his question, but I think it did. Cheers, Rob.
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