Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - i7-2600k overclock suggestions

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | PC Support | i7-2600k overclock suggestions

DVA5255
First Officer, A330-300

Joined on November 17 2007

Western United States

31 legs, 54.8 hours
15 legs, 18.7 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on July 21 2012 16:26 ET by Louis Vanbelkum

I just built my new system i7-2600k, h100 cpu cooler, and gtx 560 2 gigs in sli. I went for the i7 just for fsx, and currently have it overclocked to 4.3Gz. I am looking for suggestions on the clock speed to receive the best fsx play able system i can get right now. What do you guys suggest/use. I know every chip is different, but if you are currently using a oc i7 2600k please tell me your clock speed and v core so i have a idea.

DVA1690
Senior Captain, MD-88
OLP

Joined on May 05 2004
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477 legs, 700.4 hours
468 legs, 686.6 hours online
254 legs, 389.4 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on July 21 2012 20:17 ET by Trevor Bair

I have my i7-2600k o/c'ed to 4.3 GHz as well and it seems to be a good, stable number. I've not once had a crash or experienced any instability. Just keep an eye on your temps, mine can peak as high as 68°C with FSX running (with Coolermaster air cooling).

Trevor Bair

Senior Captain, MD-88

DVA9589
First Officer, A320

Joined on March 14 2011
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Posted onPost created on July 22 2012 00:21 ET by Randy Donnelly

I7 2600K 4.7ghz 1.35 Vcc, 37C FSX operation. Corsair H80 and Coolermaster HAF 944 case. Never had a crash in 6 mo of operation. Run pretty much maxed settings with all kinds of addon scenery and aircraft. Kosta's tweaks only.

Randy Donnelly

First Officer, A320

DVA7670
First Officer, B777-200

Joined on August 14 2009
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Sharpsburg, GA USA

77 legs, 354.3 hours
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Posted onPost created on July 22 2012 17:07 ET by Dustin Thames

I'm currently at 4.5GHz (100MHz x 45.0) with a VCC of 1.33V. My temps during FSX are in the 60-65C range with an older coolermaster fan on board. I also have several case fans to imkprove circulation inside the case. I'm in the same boat with the Randy in that I run maxed out on everything and get around 30-35 fps in high graphics areas such as flying the NGX in FSDT JFK. The majority of my OS (Windows 7) and FSX cfg tweaks come from NickN (scroll down a little bit to the long post by NickN in the thread linked below).

http://www.simforums.com/forums/topic34141_post198187.html#198187

Dustin Thames

First Officer, B777-200

DVA5255
First Officer, A330-300

Joined on November 17 2007

Western United States

31 legs, 54.8 hours
15 legs, 18.7 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on July 22 2012 20:01 ET by Louis Vanbelkum

Ty everyone, i am going to go for a 4.7Gz overclock if i can manage it withu nder 1.37V or so. So far my cpu has yet to reach over 45C at 4.3Gz my h100 is doing mad work and its a really big case.

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