If the ambient room temperature is higher in the summer you might want to watch the temperatures of the GPU (video processor) and core-0 (CPU). One quirk of P3D is that it does not use core-0. This has led many to to change the Affinity setting to use it with P3D. The new issue is that core-0 now gets a lot of usage. That seems harmless relative to performance. 

 

However, on a hot day core-0 may overheat due to high usage. There is a way to balance the usage so that all cores participate somewhat evenly.

 

Using Task Manager go to Affinity and turn off core-0 and click ok.

 

Then turn on core-0 and click ok

 

The usage is now spread more evenly reducing the chance of core-0 overheating.

 

I have seen no other value from this "balancing" but it might be a nice safeguard if your CPU runs hot

We've pretty high temperatures all the time here in Thailand. It's a saying that we only have 3 seasons: "Hot, Hotter, Hottest" :lol:

 

The room where my FS is established has no AC so I played a bit with the AM to take away some load/heat from the CPU without losing too much power for P3D. I found that AM 337 is the best compromise for my rig with an i7 3930K CPU OC with 4.6 GHz.

 

I can keep now the temperature very stable below 70 degrees Celsius over all cores.

Spirit