Best Processor For Fsx

[creator2003]

Natas, what sort of FPS do you get with your system?

well it depends on settings but mostly above 25 even seen them water max clouds max and boat traffic a frame killer at 60 unlimited ,, over real nz wellington 15 -30 and with everything max including max traffic and all the other fancy stuff as low as 7
so the end of the story is what dont i need cranked to get better flips lots no traffic no highend water the best thing in fsx cloud simple no large addon scenery just about everything that makes fsx good so im staying with the old school 2004,, why because all those things work fine in fs9 with max flps

[ZK-TJL]

it would be interesting to see some processor benchmarks for FSX. faster clock speed I imagine is best, rather than number of cores.

I agree with Zoltuger here........I have a duo core system......and dosn't work as welll as you may think....FSX doesn't seem to work effectively across the two cores. With this in mind I have one core set to run FSX and the other to take care of any background running of the computer. I think clock speed is the most important thing here, not number of cores.

[omitchell]

Maybe some of the more "techie" minded amongst us could start up a post showing us how to get the best out of FSX with a Core-Duo system? I just recently changed to one and basically know jack about it lol

[Zöltuger]

it would be interesting to see some processor benchmarks for FSX. faster clock speed I imagine is best, rather than number of cores.

I agree with Zoltuger here........I have a duo core system......and dosn't work as welll as you may think....FSX doesn't seem to work effectively across the two cores. With this in mind I have one core set to run FSX and the other to take care of any background running of the computer. I think clock speed is the most important thing here, not number of cores.

having said that, i will qualify it by saying that the dual core processors have a large amount of L2 cache, which definitely improves performance.
intel are releasing some revolutionary chips later this year, it should be interesting to see how they stack up