xracer Posted June 13, 2013 Posted June 13, 2013 (edited) If i get an increase of 3 fps avg in DCS with my system if i raise the clock 1.5 Ghz on the CPU, is it a new graphics card i should buy first? I do have little mem on my card already too? Edited June 13, 2013 by xracer System spec: Intel Core i7 920@4.2Ghz (stable, 65degC fully loaded), EVGA GTX-780, Asus P6T Deluxe V2 v.5.04 BIOS, Saitek X52, 1TB/500GB WD HD for system/storage. Kingston SSD 120 GB for DCS, 250GB Samsung 840 SSD for the rest. 16GB Kingston KHX1600C9D3 Memory, 9 GB Pagefile, EK HFX-240 Watercooling, Corsair HX-1000 PSU. HAF-932 Tower, TrackIR-5, Win64Ult [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
porky_pig Posted June 13, 2013 Posted June 13, 2013 Dont think you will be able to push that 920 any further than it already is, let alone another 1.5ghz...
xracer Posted June 13, 2013 Author Posted June 13, 2013 (edited) Dont think you will be able to push that 920 any further than it already is, let alone another 1.5ghz... Hmm... misunderstanding. I explained badly. i did lower it too its original speed 2.66 Ghz too check this. The best it can do is 4 Ghz and my difference is 3 fps in a certain test. Its long since i've had it its original speed so i wanted to check the effect in DCS. Edited June 13, 2013 by xracer System spec: Intel Core i7 920@4.2Ghz (stable, 65degC fully loaded), EVGA GTX-780, Asus P6T Deluxe V2 v.5.04 BIOS, Saitek X52, 1TB/500GB WD HD for system/storage. Kingston SSD 120 GB for DCS, 250GB Samsung 840 SSD for the rest. 16GB Kingston KHX1600C9D3 Memory, 9 GB Pagefile, EK HFX-240 Watercooling, Corsair HX-1000 PSU. HAF-932 Tower, TrackIR-5, Win64Ult [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
xracer Posted June 13, 2013 Author Posted June 13, 2013 (edited) Yes, your GPU is your bottleneck right now. Thanks TZeer! then its time for a new card. What i was thinking was to first of all get a card with at least 2 GB on it. Btw. I have another machine with a i7 2600 non K which i managed to squeeze to 4 GHz stable. Maybe i should use that for gaming instead of music prod? It has 16 GB mem too. I was hesitate on that earlier cause the GHz is more or less the same and the cache on both are 8 mb too. I will also have to do alot of re-organising for that. Both have SSD's for data. Edited June 14, 2013 by xracer System spec: Intel Core i7 920@4.2Ghz (stable, 65degC fully loaded), EVGA GTX-780, Asus P6T Deluxe V2 v.5.04 BIOS, Saitek X52, 1TB/500GB WD HD for system/storage. Kingston SSD 120 GB for DCS, 250GB Samsung 840 SSD for the rest. 16GB Kingston KHX1600C9D3 Memory, 9 GB Pagefile, EK HFX-240 Watercooling, Corsair HX-1000 PSU. HAF-932 Tower, TrackIR-5, Win64Ult [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
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