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FSX: (Intel Quad Vs Duo) or (AMD X2 Vs X4)?

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i´ve been googling and found ANY "graphic" benchmark of FSX with SP1 (its supposed that it enables multi core). I read a lot of speculation but any real benchmarks.
Can someone run FSX SP1 with a quad with two cores enabled and then with all of them?
I cant do it because i´ve a pentium D 925, and in a week a ll have an 9850.

Maybe this shouldnt be in CPUs but i didnt know where it could better fit.

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Get a Quad. That's one of the few games that are CPU bound.

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Reply to Shadow703793

I don't have any benchmarks, but my guess is that a core 2 quad with 4 cores enabled will perform best. FSX is a very cpu-intensive game and the extra cores will help it.

Reply to br3nd064

There are few benchmarks of FSX in general, let alone with SP1.

 

But heres one of FSX: Acceleration which I assume has the SP1 multi-threading enhancements built in since it was released after SP1 (I think).

 

http://www.simhq.com/_technology2/technology_125b.html

 

http://www.simhq.com/_technology2/images/AMD_PhenomX4_9850_FSX.jpg

 

The scale sucks for the 1280 x 1024 chart, but to my eyes its roughly 55fps for the Q9450, 45fps for the X4 9850BE and 40fps for the X4 9600, hard to be exact though when you're counting pixels :lol:.


Message edited by epsilon84 on 10-11-2008 at 12:22:04 AM
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Yes FSX will use all 4 cores.You will get substantial improvement with a quad core CPU (about a 80% improvement).I built a 9850BE system and it runs FSX well and very smoothly.
I am running in 1280 by 1024 resolution.
FSX is very configurable and you can turn down many different settings a little bit for higher FPS.My recommendation is to get the FSX Acceleration add on along with FSX.

Reply to jj463rd
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Ok, Thanks, That is what i was looking for!

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