CPU Overclocking

[Redda03]

QUOTE (Adamski @ Dec 31 2009, 11:18 PM) *
I ran Vista (now Win7) with FSX and have yet to see any noticeable difference in MSFS running DX10. Worse - many aircraft and scenery textures don't display correctly in DX10 - particularly WOAI aircraft and some older FS9 scenery and aircraft port-overs. So, if it's for FS9 or FSX, I'd say "don't bother".

However - a friend of mine just bought "PT Boats" (WWII) and running it in DX10 mode was much better. Better haze and graduated skies etc. - so if you have other sims/games that make specific use of DX10, then it may still be worth it.


Many thanks for that info....will stay way clear of DirectX10!!

I have discovered thru further research that it's now likely that my CPU could be the bottleneck in FSX with the new GTX285 Video Card fitted....I have an Intel 2 Duo E6850 3.00GHz 4M 1333MHz LGA7775 and I have read that FSX performance is primarily about the CPU/memory and THEN the video card...my FS9 performs great with the 285....however I see little difference in FSX performance over the 8800 GTS 320mb card.

I have also seen a blog at http://www.simforums.com/forums/forum_post...9156....stating "I have the E6850 overclocked to 3.5G using ntune and it works great"....I have downloaded the nTune software but I am not really sure if I should attempt to "overclock" my CPU....or how to go about it!!!???

Bob R

[brownbox]

i personally think ntune is cr@p
But by all means go for it. Read up about it first so you dont go overboard and break something. I personally think that overclocking via ntune isnt that good, and can be unstable if you really push the limits, and prefer the conventional bios method.

Just remember to do your homework before you start and you should be fine

If something blows up its not my fault