December 17, 20187 yr Hi! My current system is an HP Pavillion HP 150f (i7-860, GT230, 8gb ddr3 133mhz, Iona mobo, Sandisk 240gb SSD) from circa 2009 that is showing signs of age for FSX with a bunch of addons, but surprisingly I can hold 20fps on cruise with any Carenado plane and 12 to 15fps on approach on a Flytampa KTPA Tampa airport with the sliders in middle to high. As I´m in a budget, I´ll be doing the system upgrade in steps and just bought an used EVGA GTX 970 4gb that I´ll try to run on my system for a while as I think the bottleneck on my current system is just the GT230 GPU. Next step is the CPU, and I´m considering an i5-3570k, then I´ll also need another mobo since is 1155 socket. Any advice on a good budget CPU that allows an overclock on the i5-3570k? I´m looking for at least 50 to 70% increase on my FPS.
December 19, 20187 yr When I had this cpu, I was using an Asrock extreme 4 z77, and it worked pretty good. I did delid the cpu to help with the oc. My card was also a gtx 970 Edited December 19, 20187 yr by flytrumpet767
December 19, 20187 yr My previous system was an OC'd 3570K. It had a Gigabyte z77x-3dh motherboard. Worked fine. Never let me down. Still going strong as a gaming system for my buddy. [email protected] - ROG Strix Z790-E - 2X16Gb G.Skill Trident DDR5 6400 CL32 - MSI RTX 4090 Suprim X - WD SN850X 2 TB M.2 - XPG S70 Blade 2 TB M.2 - MSI A1000G PCIE5 1000 W 80+ Gold PSU - Liam Li 011 Dynamic Razer case - 58" Panasonic TC-58AX800U 4K - Pico 4 VR HMD - WinWing HOTAS Orion2 MAX - ProFlight Pedals - TrackIR 5 - W11 Pro (Passmark:12574, CPU:63110-Single:4785, GPU:50688)
December 23, 20187 yr I'm currently using a Asrock extreme 4 z77 running 4.2GHZ with supplied settings in BIOS, since 2013. My system in storage so I can't give the option I chose, but will be up and running by January 15th if you interested then. I'm also running a Noctura NH-14 fan, but any good fan should suffice.
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