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kiwis

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#173350 20-May-2015 13:12
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i need to upgrade my CPU due to overheating maybe but also to get a better experience with Flight Sim X.

When I get a new CPU what do i need to look for to ensure my motherboard is compatible? if its not likely to be what do i need to have match up so my motherboard and cou can work together??

other than cpu and monthboard does anything else need to be considered??

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  #1309579 21-May-2015 21:51
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I did a bit of hunting around FSX forums, just for you.

This spreadsheet is a bit out of date, but it's a bunch of guys doing FPS comparisons on different hardware running FSX. There are _2_ AMD cpu's on the list, and they are both near the bottom. Interestingly enough it looks like FSX isn't just CPU bound as the GPU appears to matter somewhat as well according to this spreadsheet and some other posts/blogs on FSX performance.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ohWWXNtN6X_nUOsR7cP7v8f3Y-m5CyIBbFdJX3m_wWs/edit#gid=0

Some other posts I've seen indicate the GPU does matter if your using HD texture packs for FSX.

My revised suggestions are either 4960k or 4970k, minimum 8gb of RAM, a GTX 970 GPU, and an SSD. Until I started diving into this for you I didn't realise quite how demanding FSX is with all the addons and HD texture packs etc, it's almost the new Crysis! :-P




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