CPU Upgrade Question

[antney79 18]

I built the below specs couple years ago was wondering if a CPU upgrade would help me with MSFS 2020 at all or will the upgrade show little results?  Appreciate it!

 

Intel Core I7- 10700K

32 GB of Ram

3080TI Graphics Card

 

 

[rka 916]

Little results, even more little if you're running 2K/4K. Wouldn't do it. 10700K is a nice CPU.

[somiller 694]

5 hours ago, antney79 said:

I built the below specs couple years ago was wondering if a CPU upgrade would help me with MSFS 2020 at all or will the upgrade show little results?  Appreciate it!

 

Intel Core I7- 10700K

32 GB of Ram

3080TI Graphics Card

 

 

I think it really would be a great thing for you to do, and I'll give you 20 cents-on-the-dollar for your entire computer. Actually, I hate to put it this way, but I think it's important to be honest...are you crazy, or do you have excess cash and you just can't find anything useful to spend it on?

[antney79 18]

No excess cash but I really don’t fully know all computers and what’s best.  Right now I am cpu limited.   So was just curious if the 12th generations would eliminate that. 

[CaptainNick 575]

14 minutes ago, antney79 said:

No excess cash but I really don’t fully know all computers and what’s best.  Right now I am cpu limited.   So was just curious if the 12th generations would eliminate that. 

Nothing will "eliminate" that. You are always going to be one or the other really. You will probably see far better results just tweaking your settings than a cpu swap unless your going for a weird 1080p high refresh rate setup for msfs for some odd reason.

[stans 703]

That is a pretty robust computer.  If the CPU has a good cooler, you might get a little more performance by overclocking the CPU.

[Fielder 3,676]

Yes, stand pat. Don't change anything.

[ttbq1 347]

Now, what about a 9700k overclocked to 4.9, does it make sense to jump to a 12900k? or is it better to wait another generation?

I run 4k with a 3080ti also.

[Reader 2,021]

The answer should not be hard to find.
A new CPU and motherboard to pay for and most likely no difference in the performance of the GPU heavy MSFS.
 

Edited July 10, 2022 by Reader

[rka 916]

38 minutes ago, ttbq1 said:

Now, what about a 9700k overclocked to 4.9, does it make sense to jump to a 12900k? or is it better to wait another generation?

I run 4k with a 3080ti also.

No, wait. Also with dx12 getting usable, it seems advisable to wait and see how one's system performs in dx12. At least for people running 5 GHz cpus and 3000 series GPUs 😉

Edited July 10, 2022 by rka

[G-RFRY 1,712]

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AMD Foresees GPUs With TDPs up to 700W by 2025 | Tom's Hardware (tomshardware.com)

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In a few years you will not need central heating just leave the PC on 24/7.

Edited July 12, 2022 by G-RFRY