Alex,

         I have the OK from the boss to do the upgrade. For $200 difference I'll more than likely go with the 6700K.

 

Is the boss your wife/partner? :-P

Is the boss your wife/partner? :-P

My wife. She's indulged me in this hobby for many years. I'm a very lucky man.

That's awesome! Happy retirement

Here's a HDR shot with lots of weather below.

 

That's awesome! Happy retirement

Thank you Reik. After 36+ years in the airline industry, I'm ready.

Here's a HDR shot with lots of weather below.

 

 

Well, to be fair - I can also manage that FPS in cruise, even with nasty weather and a thick cloud layer beneath. But I am convinced that Skylake provides better overall performance. To bad I don't have a motherboard supporting it. I was told socket 1150 was the future. Not.

Great results! Can you post your settings?

I'd be really interested to see what results are from an i7-6700 with RAM at 1800MHz... to differentiate between the impact of the new CPU and different memory bandwidths...

I'm probably going to retire next year as well and whatever upgrades will happen before that. I've got a 4770k which works fine and a 780gtx but after retirement the income will be reduced so got to do it before then. I'm hoping a next generation of hardware arrives on the scene by then.  I'm watching these threads with real interest. Congrats on your retirement.

Dave

I'm probably going to retire next year as well and whatever upgrades will happen before that. I've got a 4770k which works fine and a 780gtx but after retirement the income will be reduced so got to do it before then. I'm hoping a next generation of hardware arrives on the scene by then.  I'm watching these threads with real interest. Congrats on your retirement.

Dave

Dave,

           Same to you. I'm the same way. If I don't do an upgrade now, it probably isn't going to happen after I retire. My CPU is 4+ years old so no telling how much more the old girl has left in her.

We really a need a clock for clock comparison with all other variables being as close to identical as possible.

 

Comparing a 6700k to a 2700k at different speeds with different memory (timings, frequency, etc.), video cards, sims, settings, etc. leaves too much to on the table.

2700k has a maximum memspeed at 2133mhz and down to ddr2 speeds 800mhz.

6700k ddr4 2133-4000mhz

If a compare my 2700k @ 5.4 with 2133mhz cl9 mems and 6700k @stock speed with not fast Skylake mems 3000mhz, the skylake is faster

SandyBridge is Old , it was the number one CPU for sim, but now Its outdated in CPU bound apps as fsx p3d.

Ivy bridge 3770k slightly faster, Haswell 4770k 4790k the standard sim CPU for a couple of years now is faster.

We really a need a clock for clock comparison with all other variables being as close to identical as possible.

 

Comparing a 6700k to a 2700k at different speeds with different memory (timings, frequency, etc.), video cards, sims, settings, etc. leaves too much to on the table.

 

 

2700k has a maximum memspeed at 2133mhz and down to ddr2 speeds 800mhz.

6700k ddr4 2133-4000mhz

If a compare my 2700k @ 5.4 with 2133mhz cl9 mems and 6700k @stock speed with not fast Skylake mems 3000mhz, the skylake is faster

SandyBridge is Old , it was the number one CPU for sim, but now Its outdated in CPU bound apps as fsx p3d.

Ivy bridge 3770k slightly faster, Haswell 4770k 4790k the standard sim CPU for a couple of years now is faster.

 

We're not just comparing the clock speed and the cpu here, this is a platform upgrade. DDR3 Ram for example on Sandy wouldn't be compatible with Skylake. 

 

The only thing that remained constant for 2 weeks was the GPU. And although performance was obviously better than the MSI GTX970 twin froz. I am seeing a marked increase in that. 

 

My settings are pretty similar to what I had to the old system. The difference is I have put the cloud shadows on 

 

 

DDR3 Ram for example on Sandy wouldn't be compatible with Skylake.

 

Yes, I understand that.

 

Nevermind.

Hi Alex, I have recently built a new Rig for P3D on windows 10...Skylake i7 6700k on a Asus hero mobo...with 16gig of Vengeance 2666mhz DDR4 LPX ram, I have a gtx9704gb strix gpu

My overclock is 4.6 and it runs real sweet

 

I have it running awesome in Orbx PNW etc with Rex softclouds...at very high density & hdr settings...

 

I tried from Birmingham (UK2000) to Orbx Southampton with FTX EU eng in my Majestic Dash 8 and got oom's until I turned off hdr and reduces sliders to normal.

Please could you post your .cfg and p3d settings so I can cross check against mine...many thanks...