12 hours ago, glider1 said:

It is a bit strange but in my case trying to overclock three different CPU's over the years (i2600k, i6700k, i7700k), I was never able to get a higher more stable overclock with HT-OFF compared to on. It is just that HT-ON always ran hotter. The CPU clock frequency hit the same limits either way.

Agreed.

With HT off I see significant slowing of terrain texture loading, so as far as I am concerned, HT on with a properly set affinity mask [253] is a must. 

 

2 hours ago, GHarrall said:

Agreed.

With HT off I see significant slowing of terrain texture loading, so as far as I am concerned, HT on with a properly set affinity mask [253] is a must. 

 

I always chuckle everytime this subject comes up because we always come to the same conclusion.

Each system is different and we each decide what works best for us.  For me HT off and no AM on my 7700 is the way to go.  BUT, for me, I also use Project Lasso to assign cores.

Vic

3 hours ago, GHarrall said:

Agreed.

With HT off I see significant slowing of terrain texture loading, so as far as I am concerned, HT on with a properly set affinity mask [253] is a must. 

 

Try 250, just for the heck of it..

3 hours ago, GHarrall said:

Agreed.

With HT off I see significant slowing of terrain texture loading, so as far as I am concerned, HT on with a properly set affinity mask [253] is a must. 

 

That's what works best for me as well.

My mask is different than yours, but that can be an elusive thing to find the one that works best, and requires quite a bit of experimentation, at least it has for me.

I don't overclock either, and my CPU never gets very hot with HT on, with my Noctua NH-D15 temps never top about 55C, but some of these guys are perfectly happy running their CPU's at 80C, so to each his own I suppose.

50 minutes ago, Bert Pieke said:

Try 250, just for the heck of it..

Or 243, then 207. 🙂

cheers!

For the little people (i5 users)!!!! 

The little people have been mocked long enough, well no more!!!! A toast!!!!!

..... to quote the great and fabulous MC Hammer; Can't touch this!!!

26 minutes ago, Luke said:

Or 243, then 207. 🙂

cheers!

Oh jeez... more AM numbers to try... Just what I need.. lol

But hey, you never know until you try them... 😀

On 1/3/2019 at 2:18 AM, FunknNasty said:

Here you go Mike  ...  big smile!

...and in case were wondering what 4266 looks like:

 

and a bonus 4300 mhz pict: ...might try it later. 🙂

Hi Ken,

No argument there 😊 I agree, pretty Impressive by any standards!

This is the best I can do with Quad channel DDR memory clocked to 2666Mhz and CPU (all cores) running at 4.6GHz:

But, and it's still a big but, what I have now in terms of available performance seems to be all I need and, quite evidently, with some to spare. This without stressing components unduly. I suppose I could push things a little further, but choose not to as it's likely to invite unwelcome problems and risk curtailing the useful life of the system. Unlike previous builds, this one seems to be keeping pace quit comfortably with most, if not all, currently available gaming and flight simming software, thus obviating that recurring compulsion to upgrade prematurely and needlessly. That will change, of course, just not yet awhile 😉Indeed, I do wonder about the continued relevance of those CPU speed demons as we approach the era of GPU domination. Also, if one can ignore the expense, it's so much easier to upgrade the latter.

Regards,

Mike

 

 

Any of you guys ever tried Unigine's Valley Benchmark..??

Don't know how useful it would be for evaluating your system performance as it applies to P3D, but it's kind of cool, check it out...  https://benchmark.unigine.com/valley

4 hours ago, FunknNasty said:

For the little people (i5 users)!!!! 

The little people have been mocked long enough, well no more!!!! A toast!!!!!

..... to quote the great and fabulous MC Hammer; Can't touch this!!!

Hi Ken

nice work my friend ,checked my 8700k in cpuz bench as it runs in the sim , your new goal must be around +660 not show any teaser 

have some new galax binned mems 4800mhz xmp

Edited January 5, 20197 yr by westman

5 hours ago, Cruachan said:

Hi Ken,

No argument there 😊 I agree, pretty Impressive by any standards!

This is the best I can do with Quad channel DDR memory clocked to 2666Mhz and CPU (all cores) running at 4.6GHz:

Regards,Mike

Hey Mike ...thanks for taking the time to post some performance shots of your puter. 

Nice improvement on that image score ...how'd you do it, or what did you change with your setup.

3 hours ago, SunDevil56 said:

Any of you guys ever tried Unigine's Valley Benchmark..??

Don't know how useful it would be for evaluating your system performance as it applies to P3D, but it's kind of cool, check it out...  https://benchmark.unigine.com/valley

Dude!  Post it! -your score! .....I don't care what benchy you use, all that matters is we start posting stuff about our systems. The more flight simmers post benchies of their systems the better off the community will be for the purpose of troubleshooting (thank you, Greg) performance topics and evaluating components to suit our individual needs and wants.

3 hours ago, westman said:

Hi Ken

nice work my friend ,checked my 8700k in cpuz bench as it runs in the sim , your new goal must be around +660 not show any teaser 

have some new galax binned mems 4800mhz xmp

Thanks man!  I'm coming for you! rofl     .....I'm up against it  ....the wall. That +660 looks like 5660 from my vantage point. 

WTG on securing that 4800 set. Yes! I wanna see it in action and what it takes to get it to run.

10 hours ago, FunknNasty said:

Nice improvement on that image score ...how'd you do it, or what did you change with your setup.

Hi Ken,

Haven’t a clue. Only thing that changed was the version of RealBench (2.43 -> 2.56) so it looks like some optimisations may have been implemented between the two versions.

Regards,

Mike

11 hours ago, FunknNasty said:

 

Dude!  Post it! -your score! .....I don't care what benchy you use, all that matters is we start posting stuff about our systems. The more flight simmers post benchies of their systems the better off the community will be for the purpose of troubleshooting (thank you, Greg) performance topics and evaluating components to suit our individual needs and wants.

Here's my ROG CPU-Z bench score, stock i7 8700K, not OC'd, HT on, AM 4095.

Below that is my bench from Unigine's latest benchmark app called "Superposition", it is way cool... 

https://benchmark.unigine.com/superposition

 

Edited January 6, 20197 yr by SunDevil56

I thought that ProcessLasso can manage HT off? I remember that it has a special option for HT off when you are setting affinity mask.
For me it's a kind of annoying to disable HT (even if it helps P3D smoothness) because I use a lot Adobe apps that works much better with HT on, logically.

My Superposition Benchmark Results:

Run twice

Mike