Upgrade or not to i7 4770k for Prepar 3d v2.2?

Manolito Urquezo

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I actually have an i5 2500k at 4ghz but i am not very satisfied with it performance in prepar 3d v2.2 i am getting like 18 - 22 fps in the pdmg 737 in Dubai with high settings(note that i have also aplied some tweaks to the game). What i want to know is if an i7 4770k will be able to hold over 30 fps in this type of situations and how much extra performance will i get over the i5 2500k. Considering this i will take my decision if i upgrade my cpu or not. Just to add, i have a gtx670.

Any type of information will be very helpful



Thanks
Ricardo
 

Manolito Urquezo

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The thing is that simulation games like fsx and prepar 3d use a lot more cpu power that gpu power (its like 90% CPU and 10% GPU) so i want to know if i am going to have a significant encrease in this two games when changing the i5 2500k for the i7 4770k.
 
I'm sorry, not deliberately playing 20 questions, but I'm considering alternatives. Are these games also RAM-intensive or do they have small working sets?

The short answer is that the i7-4770 will play them better than the i5-2500K, but there may be a few alternatives. The new i7 4790K(Devil's Canyon) is substantially faster, for instance, and then there are the Xeon CPUs - some low-priced ones are in the range of the i7 CPUs.

Also next month Intel will announce the Haswell-E CPUs that will run on DDR4 memory and we all have high hopes for them. THere will also be 6- and-8 core versions. which may imply a significant boost for what you want.