How big of a difference will overclocking make with the DCS A-10C?

[kingneptune117]

Im thinking about taking the jump to overclocking my new rig when the DCS A-10C comes out. Right now im running an i5-750 at stock 2.66ghz. Ive heard of people getting it up to 4.0ghz stable. Do you guys think its worth the trouble, or will it not really make all that big of a difference. I know for a fact that in FC2, turning on full shadows makes a significant difference in performance, especially when first entering the 'pit. If I look around right when entering, everything will be super choppy until I look around for a bit, then it smooths out.

 

Also, any suggestions as to a good cooling fan for my i5? Im not willing to spend more than $50 on it.

[Nate--IRL--]

I recently switched from a E6300 @ 2.9ghz to a E8400 @ 3.6ghz and I can definitely notice the difference. The Battle mission in black shark is no longer a slide show and actually runs quite smoothly, much to my surprise.

 

In general everything in DCS/FC2 is much much smoother. There is absolutely no reason not to overclock it now before getting a better cooler. You are very unlikely to damage anything, a better cooler may give you a slightly higher stable overclock, but there is no reason to wait until then.

 

Oh by the way, that startup choppy performance is FC2/DCS loading in textures to memory.

 

Nate

[MTFDarkEagle]

I overclocked my phenom II with .5 ghz (from 3,2 to 3,74), and it made a huuuuge difference in black shark. And yea, its worth the trouble. As for your cooler: get one from Noctua if you want to air cool (they are pretty big, so measure if they fit, the sizes are listed on their website), if you want to water cool, go for one of those sealed kits like the coolitsystems, if you can get one of those for under $50. But I highly recommend you to get a very good one, it may be a bit more expensive, but then again, you have got a reaaaally good cooler. I had my phenom on stock clock, and it would run at a minimum 45 degrees (idle), and on to 60 at load. I've recently purchased a noctua nh-d14 (big! might not fit your case!), and the idle with overclock is not at 35 degrees. it maxes out at 40 and in a very rare case 45.

 

Hope this helps ;)

 

 

**Dam nate beat me to it ;)

[Feuerfalke]

For BlackShark overclocking definitely made a difference, especially with dual or multicore processors in combination with Windows Vista/Win7.

[Mushu]

I put my I5 750 to 3.6Ghz, on FC2, i saw a little difference. I don't know which motherboard do you have, but the overclocking of the 750, is very very easy!

(No risks for hardware if you don't raise too much CPU Voltage)

 

For cooling, like the other. Take a Noctua. NH-D14 or NH-U12P.

 

;)

(Sorry for my french-english :music_whistling:)

[Avilator]

I'm running a stock Dell Studio XPS8000 with a Core i7-860@2.8GHz. Does the same apply to me?

EDIT: I'm running Windows7 Home Premium.

[Nate--IRL--]

If the Bios in that Dell will let you overclock, go for it. Read an overclocking guide or two before attempting it though.

 

Nate

[sofie_59]

A good place to start is overclock.net

And if you got heat problem whit your graphics card:

http://www.overclock.net/

 

http://www.guru3d.com/category/rivatuner/

 

http://rivatuner.doomdealer.com/

[Ramstein]

during the summer the heat is to much, even with a/c... so O.C.'ing is not recommended.. too hard to keep the computer cool.. :joystick:

[Loz]

.......Also, any suggestions as to a good cooling fan for my i5? Im not willing to spend more than $50 on it.

 

Can't say what the price would be in the USA but I've got an i7 920 (2.6 Ghz) overclocked to 4Ghz in a Cosmos S case (very big) cooled with a CoolerMaster H50.

This is an integrated sealed liquid cooler with radiator and does a really good job. You've got to have a reasonably big case though to fit the radiator.

[hassata]

Sorry to go OT, but is core duo e8400 running 3.6-4.0. a reasonable processor for flight sims these days? Or should one start saving for something else? If so any recommendations to fit same socket?

 

Thanks

 

P.S. is it correct that A10C will only take advantage of 2 cores?

[MTFDarkEagle]

during the summer the heat is to much, even with a/c... so O.C.'ing is not recommended.. too hard to keep the computer cool.. :joystick:

With 30+ degrees c (out and inside, there-about), my cpu doesn't go over 45 c on overclock, on full load since I got my new CPU cooler. With my old one, it would be 45 c, idle, with no oc.

 

So if you have a good cooler: no problem ;)

[MTFDarkEagle]

Sorry to go OT, but is core duo e8400 running 3.6-4.0. a reasonable processor for flight sims these days? Or should one start saving for something else? If so any recommendations to fit same socket?

 

Thanks

 

P.S. is it correct that A10C will only take advantage of 2 cores?

ka-50 takes advantage of 4 cores (if you have vista or 7), so it would sound understandable a10c would as well.

[Nate--IRL--]

ka-50 takes advantage of 4 cores (if you have vista or 7), so it would sound understandable a10c would as well.

 

No 2 cores are all DCS will utilise. Warthog may be different but ED have stated that 64bit will come before multicore will. So don't hold you breath.

 

Nate

[Rodney]

I've been tempted to buy an E8500 CPU but pretty much most of my PC games really good.

[Panzertard]

Unfortunately A-10C is not out.

There's no way to answer you until it's gone public.

 

Still makes me wonder why people ask such question before a product is released though? ;)

[*Rage*]

Unfortunately A-10C is not out.

There's no way to answer you until it's gone public.

 

Still makes me wonder why people ask such question before a product is released though? ;)

 

To buy intelligently?? Currently DCS only uses 2 cores. If building a new rig would you build a dual core system based on todays games uses?

[Mist3ri0]

just wait until you´ve installed a-10 on your machine before you start overclocking :)

we don´t know how multiple cpus will affect the perfomance in a-10.

some games like crysis had a 20-30% performance boost when using 4 cores instead of 2.

so calm down and clock when it´s necessary.new core i7xxx shouldn´t have a problem with max details even at stock clocking.my 3ghz q6600 had no problems hosting BS servers with max details so the new intels will do just fine.

most of the features a-10 will bring are gpu related(like hdr) so i think there´ll be no need to squeeze the last mhz out of your cpu :)

[Prophet]

Calm down? Anyways :glare:

 

LOMAC/FC2/BS have always been very CPU dependent. I doubt enough has been changed in the engine to effect this much.

 

Given that, there is an extremely good chance that overclocking your CPU, like in just about every game, will help. You must consider that even in GPU dependent games, the GPU is only as good as the CPU can feed it. Overclock you CPU and the GPU gets its information faster.

 

On air, you are only limited by your temperatures. 75C is well within the safe max range to run your CPU at full load.

 

You dont even really need to change your heat sink if you dont want to. Just up the BCLK until it is unstable, and then slowly up the CPU voltage.

 

Get a program to load the CPU like LinX, and a program to watch your CPU temps like CoreTemp.

 

Of course if your Dell BIOS lets you, most of the time they do not. But they may have a program that you can download that might overclock by 10% or so.

[pyates2104]

Running an i5 750 at 3.8 stable, performance is a lot better than running at 2.66 stock speed. i5 750 is very easy to OC providing you have a good MB bios and good cooling.