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Hello fellow simmers , I have a recomendation to make for those willing to upgrade based on my own experience. If you own a I7 2XXX you may consider if its worth going for a skylake or babylake or a new gpu. Well, i had recently this dilemma i had an i7 2600 coupled with a Gtx 780 and after a lot of research i decided to upgrade my gpu intead of the cpu And i bought a gtx 1070. Well i think i made the right choice, big improvement on fps and smoothness, and the I72600 still cope very well and do not bottleneck the gtx1070. Why buying a cpu that according to tests beats the i7 sandybridge only by 10 % and with also the heating problems the 7700k exhibits (see the latest intel warning on overclocking). That way i have decent prformance and i can reserve the cpu upgrade in a future chip much better than the babylake. Ps: all these are valid only if you overclock your i72XX of cource mine working steadily in 4,4 GHz
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I have a 3 year old Sandy Bridge system with key components beeing a i5 2500K overclocked to 4,1ghz and a GTX 660ti. I am considering upgrading to a completely new Haswell system with 4790K CPU (with turboboost to 4.4 ghz) and coupled with GTX 780 or 770 GPU (I will only use one monitor). Then the big question is. Will I see a significantly improved performance in FSX with ORBX addons and my PMDG sweethearts? Flying the PMDG 737 in the "country side" (eg Alaska and Norway) FPS with my current system is mostly great FPS-wise (most of the time locked at 30 fps). However I would love to have a smoother experience flying in to major urban areas, like Anchorage, Paris, Rome, without it becoming a blurry stutter fest. A few "testimonies" from someone who actually did this upgrade would be great. Finally, do you think Haswell-E or Broadwell will represent "the promised land" for us die hard FSX simmers, or are we only talking marginal improvements over Haswell Devils Canyon?
