I right now have an i7-4930k but I have been thinking about replacing my motherboard/CPU with an i7-4790k and a Asus Z97-AR motherboard. I would like better performance in FSX, especially when flying PMDG aircraft in big cities. Is a 4790k much better performing than a 4930k in FSX?
CPU upgrade for FSX
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- Apr 20, 2009
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So I did some searching. Frequency can help FSX and multicore support is lacking. But it does have some optimization issue. If you are truly wanting better performance, the first thing to do is overclock. If you don't have an aftermarket cooler, buy one and have at it. Disabling cores will allow you to overclock to higher frequencies. I would do that first before you sink $400-500.
Edit: I forgot this. http://forum.avsim.net/page/index.html/_/reviews/benchmarking-fsx-and-prepar3d-r1517
Edit: I forgot this. http://forum.avsim.net/page/index.html/_/reviews/benchmarking-fsx-and-prepar3d-r1517
Well, at 4GHz the time in Windows 8.1 went back 2 hours for some reason while I left my PC on. Also Pac Man Championship DX's game menu, their was a game mode that should not be there with the name "UNKNOWN" if I recall, and I want to see what that was about so I clicked on it and got kicked back to the desktop. Temps on the hottest core during OCCT reach 70c after 30 minutes at 4 GHz, CPU voltage on Offset. Motherboard I'm using is Asus P9x79 Pro. CPU cooler used is a Hyper 212 EVO with a 120mm CM Blademaster fan. I can't get these issues repeat themselves again even when overclocked so I'm not sure if it's from overclocking. Someone told me he had the same time fallback issue with Windows 8.1 happen to him before. So as long as I had weird issues when it was overclocked, maybe it's best to keep running at stock settings if I'm not sure why those issues happened.
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Hmm. Maybe. So typically with overclocking you'll experience stability issues where applications will crash or PC may not boot correctly. That doesn't mean OC is bad. It means you're at an unstable frequency. For example. My 3570k doesn't like 4.2GHz. My PC crashed on 4.2 on every boot attempt but 4.1 and 4.3 work fine. It's a trial by error process. If 4GHz doesn't work go up or down a little.
I've looked at some reviews and threads. The pro's couldn't get the chip past 4.4 or 4.5 GHz. Here's a good thread about overclocking the 4930k.
http://www.overclock.net/t/1426258/overclocking-i7-4930k-help
This is a tough one. If you're really hating the loss of performance, an upgrade may be your only option but that's a shame. A stout CPU you have.
I've looked at some reviews and threads. The pro's couldn't get the chip past 4.4 or 4.5 GHz. Here's a good thread about overclocking the 4930k.
http://www.overclock.net/t/1426258/overclocking-i7-4930k-help
This is a tough one. If you're really hating the loss of performance, an upgrade may be your only option but that's a shame. A stout CPU you have.
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