7950GT.

[The Badger]

Is it worth over clocking my 7950gt with a 3800x2 ? or will my processor just bottle neck ?. If you have one, how far have you pushed it too? I would like to do this to gain a few more frames on FSX. Should i use the Nvidia OC program or use somthing like Rivatuner?

 

[HangTime]

Yes, it's worth it unless you play in very low resolution.

However, I'd imagine that like most flightsims, FSX is likely to be CPU limited.

 

[The Badger]

so would my processor Bottleneck my gpu or not?

 

[silversurfer]

No it would not. It would need fps to be 100+ or the game to have a lot of physics or AI calculations for the cpu to be more important then gpu.

You can test when you get the game, run the benchmark or just run fraps while you play. Take a note of the average fps and also the minimum.

Then clock the cpu down a bit, 200mhz say. Do the benchmark again. Compare the two sets of figures and if you have less fps on the second try then the cpu is limiting things.


If its the same or similar then the gpu is the limiter

 

[RobertN]

overclocking your CPU will help as well

 

[da_ging]

i oc my 7950gt to 625 core / 800 mem (defaults are 550 / 700) when required and it certainly helps, you would probably also need to oc the cpu a bit aswell to get the most out of overclocking the gpu

oh and use ati tool to oc the vid card

 

[The Badger]

Ive tried Overclocking my cpu, i can only get it to 2.2ghz from 2.0 before it starts crashing, i need more Vcore on my Cpu but my motherboard Asrock ALiveSATA2-GLAN i cannot give it more Voltage then its already giving my cpu. Any ideas how i can gain more overclock?