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Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | PC Support | Cpu upgrade

DVA6276
Captain, MD-88
OLP

Joined on August 15 2008
Double Century Club
Online Double Century Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
B737 100 Club

Boca Raton, FL

233 legs, 768.8 hours
215 legs, 733.2 hours online
223 legs, 749.2 hours ACARS
4 legs, 7.9 hours event

Posted onPost created on May 18 2011 21:00 ET by David Zambrano

Im thinking in upgrading from my dual core to a core2 quad and I need to know if it wil make any difference in fsx. I've recently realized that fsx literally incinerates my dualcore running constantly at 90-100% cpu usage sometimes causing my fsx to hang for so long that it crashes.

I have it running at 4ghz oc of course.
My frames are fine im just worried my processor will die soon.

David Zambrano

Captain, MD-88

DVA4215
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP

Joined on March 12 2007
Everett 250 Club
Six Century Club
Online Quadruple Century Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary

Pleasant Grove, UT USA

636 legs, 1,647.2 hours
410 legs, 746.5 hours online
589 legs, 1,563.2 hours ACARS
7 legs, 10.3 hours event

Posted onPost created on May 18 2011 21:11 ET by Kyle Hatch

Well, if your happy with your frames and thinking of getting a new cpu, why not hold off and keep running FSX until (if) you current cpu dies? As far as difference, I am unsure, someone else will have to chime in on that. smile

Posted onPost created on May 19 2011 08:10 ET by David Zambrano

I think i'l stay with it for now, also what exactly happens when a cpu dies?

David Zambrano

Captain, MD-88

DVA9589
First Officer, A320

Joined on March 14 2011
50 State Club
US Coastal Club
Commuter Conquest
Millennium Club
US Mountaineer Club
Globetrotter
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Everett 500 Club

Stuart, IA USA

1,495 legs, 2,393.1 hours
45 legs, 90.3 hours online
1,480 legs, 2,370.6 hours ACARS
4 legs, 8.4 hours event

Posted onPost created on May 19 2011 10:25 ET by Randy Donnelly

David Zambrano wrote:

I think i'l stay with it for now, also what exactly happens when a cpu dies?

A CPU dieng? Copute? I would assume it will boot to the Bios than it will give all kinds of errors as the Bios is unable to handover operations to the CPU. Looking for HDD, Mem, OS bootsector etc.

Ya know. been doing this for 20 yrs , built many computers. I can not ever recall ever knowing of a CPU dieing. OC or not. HDD, MEM, PSU, MB's yes. PSU's more than any. If your running @ 4ghz dual core your probably not going to see much if any performance increase. If you are running many apps at the same time a quad core may, I say may help. No guarentee. Good cooling number one and stable power number 2 are the keys to CPU longevity! Keep the ccmputer clean!!!

"worried my processor will die soon"

At my age I'm more worried about my body dieing soon smile

Latest build: REDLINE 2600K Extreme Intel Core i7 5.0GHz+ CPU

Randy Donnelly

First Officer, A320

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