performance increase -dual to Quad core

[Trev]

My FSX is starting to slow to a crawl with all the extras i'm running at the moment. I'm down to about 8-10 FPS at Welly airport - running Robins Real Wellington, REX and numeraous add on aircraft.
I'm currently running an Athlon 64 X2 5200+ 2.6GHz overclocked to 2.81GHz and 2 Gig of DDR2-800 RAM.

The fastest CPU i can upgrade my motherboard (with a new BIOS) is a Phenom X4 9950 2.6GHz Quad core.

Would I see any real improvemnt in frame rates with this change of CPU? Does FSX actually make full use of a Quad core CPU?

Just wondering before I lay down some dollars for a new CPU, Or start saving for a completely new system.

Thanks

Trev

[jastheace]

QUOTE (Trev @ Apr 29 2009, 10:23 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

My FSX is starting to slow to a crawl with all the extras i'm running at the moment. I'm down to about 8-10 FPS at Welly airport - running Robins Real Wellington, REX and numeraous add on aircraft.
I'm currently running an Athlon 64 X2 5200+ 2.6GHz overclocked to 2.81GHz and 2 Gig of DDR2-800 RAM.

The fastest CPU i can upgrade my motherboard (with a new BIOS) is a Phenom X4 9950 2.6GHz Quad core.

Would I see any real improvemnt in frame rates with this change of CPU? Does FSX actually make full use of a Quad core CPU?

Just wondering before I lay down some dollars for a new CPU, Or start saving for a completely new system.

Thanks

Trev

Trev, as an owner of the 9850 quad, you will notice a difference, i can fly the CS 757 with autogen on very dense and orbx scenery around brisbane and get a goo 10-15fps, what you will find is that you may not get more FPS, but you will get smoothness as the quad is able to process more information. i have set my system up so i am using three cores for FSX and 1 core for the other processes that are running, and get very smooth flight (which to me os more important than super high frames) might i alos suggest if you can get another 1gig or 2 of ram, make it the smae or faster that what you have at the moment, that will help too.

let me know if you go for the chip and how it runs, as i am looking at upgrading my processor some time soon as well as putting vista 64bit on the comp as well
Jason

[Timmo]

Since SP2 FSX does use multicore systems much better- So ensure that you have installed that.

FSX is much more CPU dependent than other games- It was a future proofing decision by the Aces team as they thought the 'average' simmer would probably have a better CPU than Gfx card (relatively speaking).....im not sure if I agree but ah well haha

So yep, upgrading your CPU will have some benefits especially for the items that handled by the CPU (autogen, terrain loading, bloom etc)