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If I purchase these will I be able to activate them on steam? The current modules I own are all on steam.

Yeah that does help, thanks for your reply. In terms of overclocking...you think the after-market cooler I have on my rig will be sufficient to clock the i5 up to 4/4.4Ghz?

Hi all, I'm on the cusp of upgrading my rig with a better CPU, specifically to increase DCS performance, and I'm torn between the i5 and the i7 mentioned above. I know the i7 is objectively a better processor. But I hear a lot of reports saying that for DCS (and gaming in general) the i5 will work just as well because of the lack of hyper-threading support in DCS and other games. Can anyone actually confirm that this is the case? I don't want to shell out the extra £100 for an i7 to get no noticeable increase in performance. Also, when people refer to the i5 performing just as well as the i7, do they mean that it performs this well out of the box? Or when it's overclocked up to 4.0Ghz like the i7? My current rig Sorry for the wall of text and thanks in advance for any help. I just want to make sure I'm buying the right thing before I splurge £300+ on a new CPU and motherboard!

Thanks for the replies fellas. So from what we've seen of DCS 1.5/2.0 so far do the pefromance upgrades seem significant enough to make difference? Probably does make sense to hold off until it's out at least. I was worried about 1.5 to be honest because I was worried the update would actually cause performance to drop due to improved textures and effects etc.

Hi guys, I recently made the transition from Falcon 4 to DCS and I got the A10 module. Really enjoying it so far, DCS is a really well made sim and I love how detailed the A-10 is. Really looking forward to sinking the hours into learning how to fly it. Only trouble is, performance isn't great. Now first of all, it's not terrible either. I run the game on Medium and I mostly get 30+ FPS when I'm in the air, especially if I'm on my own. If there's a lot of stuff going off, multiple aircraft and ground targets, tracer fire etc then I seem to get FPS in the low 20's/high teens. When I'm on the ground, I'm getting anything from 15-25 FPS. Like I said, it isn't terrible. I can certainly fly without too many problems, and even when the FPS is low it doesn't last for long and it's still fluid enough to be adequate. But I'd like to get a consistent 30+ FPS so it feels smooth and I don't have to worry about flying into areas with a lot of activity. My question is, what is the best upgrade I can buy in order to help my FPS. This is my current PC. On my current budget I have enough money to buy an i7 4790k and motherboard, or a similarly priced graphics card. Based on your guys experience, which upgrade will help me out the most in terms of performance? I know a powerful CPU will always help out in a flight sim, but the fact that my FPS tanks when a lot of stuff is on screen suggests it may be my graphics card that's letting me down? Thanks in advance for any help!