nicetony

Thanks Jim, that looks very helpful, looking forward to moving those sliders a bit further to the right! Got my new machine this morning but it will be a bit of meccano and Windows stuff, then getting it set up right before i can fly. All the best, Tony

Thank you for your suggestions. I am currently running FSX on an Athlon 64 X2 500B i expect you would cringe but the aircraft perform perfectly, though of course the scenery graphics can not be set to a very high level. Have to stick to default scenery mostly and no add-ons but its acceptable to me. I tried FS9 some time ago but came back to FSX as i prefer it, not sure why! So for me the CPU options above are actually quite an improvement and i enjoy fixing up old computers and getting things to work. It can really improve performùance if you run a clean lean computer and turn all the services etc off when flying. The AMD A4 5300 is overclockable to 4.5ghz apparently, so that will be great fun! Thanks for your help, Tony

Thanks Jim, What an word not allowed its Q9300, which is discontinued same as Q9400 as you say, sorry about that. Basically i have found a couple of old computers available locally for £50 and was just trying to decide between them. I remember someone telling me years ago that FSX is better on one fast core than several slower cores, i read a post abiout the ESP code and thought that was a confirmation. I must say i am surprised you say it will run 4 cores at 100% but thats why i am asking an expert! So you are saying the slower 4 core wins then, 6mb L2 cache will make it quicker in other ways too. The AMD from 2014 would be compatible though, do you think there would be a lot of difference? That one comes with 1TB HDD and 6Gb DDR3 so a more appealing buy otherwise! Thanks for the link, the prices are pretty reasonable so i may think again but i am just making do for the moment, as you say you can pick up some pretty impressive rigs for £500 or so but for now i am just amusing myself with limited funds. I appreciate your prompt reply, Tony.

Hello, I have searched this forum and it seems that FSX is focussed on the first core due to ESP code. So in other words there is little point in going quad core if the speed is slower? Am i correct in assuming then that i am better off using an AMD 5300 2 core 3.6 ghz than INTEL Q9600 quad core 2.6ghz? I know these are old, so am i ! Thanks in advance for any help, Tony Just noticed L2 Cache 6mb for the quad core, 1mb for the duo, is that a game changer? and is FSX optimised for Intel?