FX55 vs X2 4400 and FSX

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Does anyone have any experience of such [or similar]a processor move, esp with FSX. A guy at one of the flight sim forums has been having quite a lot of issues running it smoothly [stutters and blurries] since SP1, which takes full advantage of two or more cores.

I feel for FSX it would be a sound and cheap move - but am a little worried overall it won't seem so good - there will be a loss of 400mhz [overclocking aside] which may make his machine seem a bit slower on single threaded apps and games.

Any advice...cheers.

 

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Sorry to bump but I am asking on behalf of someone else - even if no one has made this exact swap or has experience with FSX - just some thoughts would be of use as to whether this would be a wise thing to do.

Thanks in advance .

 

[cooljimy84]

i've gone from a single to a dual core, and to be honest i've not not seen much speed increase. was on a Anthlon 2.2 now on a AM2 2.6.
Encoding Video/Audio is abit faster.

Are all the drivers up to date, ,like on the graphics card ? i found an extra few FPS on newer drivers

 

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Thanks cooljimy84 - he seems to have done everything you can imagine to get FSX to work properly with his current setup [drivers etc] esp since SP1 which had a lot of dual core optimizations added, in fact it uses nearly 100% of both cores on my CPU.

This is why I think going from the FX55 to the 4400 X2 will improve the way FSX works...the thing is if it does not work then he's spent out money on old tech for nothing.

 

[lsg1r]

well according to the specs for fsx sp1

• Provide a 20 to 50 percent performance increase
• Optimize for multi-core CPUs and improve draw times for faster loading
• Address multiplayer and backwards compatibility issues
• Offer improved realism of key geographical locations, landmarks and airports

So taking into account the x2 4400 is 2.2GHz x2 you would have to have roughly a 4-4.4 GHz single core to rival it if the program fully uses both cores.

Personally I would get the dual core but I have been dual cpu/core for quite a while now and refuse to go less than 2 cores now

 

[Phil2008]

How well would FSX run on my sytem guys?

FX55 [email protected]
x1900xt oc xt-x
2gb mem running at 253mhz(506mhz) 2.5-3-3-7 1cmd
X-FI Exteme music sound card

 

[cooljimy84]

dual core is only 15-30 % faster, most programs and games can't use both cores.

 

[lsg1r]

dual core is only 15-30 % faster, most programs and games can't use both cores.

atleast look into the game before putting that down (or read my quote). FSX is able to utilise more than one core, how efficiently I havent got a clue as I haven't got it, but assuming it utilises it fully then the performance is going to be more than 15-30% boost.

 

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Would he have to reinstall Windows? - what about BIOS settings?

edit..Oh well - looks like ocuk has sold out anyway now - still some 3800's and 4200's left.