Anyone running an OC'd i7-5820K?

[CookPassBabtridge]

Just wondering if anyone splashed out on a 5820K? If so have you OC'd it, and are you seeing improvements in DCS, what with it being mostly CPU bound at the moment?

 

I saw a tread the other day with someone seeing no improvement when moving up to a GTX 970 / 980, so I am wondering what impact the new CPU's are having, if any.

[eFirehawk]

That guy was probably me. I don't have that processor, so I'm not sure if what I will say will be useful at all.

 

I'm still using an 'ancient' i7 930. :megalol: It's a 4 year+ processor. It was 2.8Ghz out of the box. I overclocked it to 3.5 some time ago and noticed gains in DCS. I overclocked it once again to 4Ghz and noticed a bit more improvement as well. Not more than single digits with the MiG-21 though.

 

I assume the gains made only by processor and not much by the videocard are particular to me. The processor isn't too bad at all, as I'm running Crysis 3 maxed out with it and other games that can get quite CPU intensive. However... since DCS uses only a single thread and being pretty inadequately optimized for today's standards, it ends up being too much for an old processor like mine. Clock per clock new generations are more than 30% faster than my Nehalem according to some articles, and in my case, to be honest, the game is very playable actually! Just not with very high visibility or anything extreme. The only thing that surprised me was the marginal gains with a GTX 980 whereas everything else skyrocketed compared to my now retired GTX 570, but the game is not running bad at all.

 

I guess you'd have pretty good performance with a new i5 or i7, especially when overclocked.

Edited October 14, 2014 by eFirehawk

[fastfreddie]

Wait until we get Edge to see what improvements are made by moving up. I've recently upgraded but I went from a Duo Core 2 to a 5930k with 980GTX so of coarse I saw a huge difference.