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Originally Posted by Zoom2136
This is true of FPS. Flight sims suffer from a slow CPU (it really is the bottleneck in what we are concern).
So for flight sims, always buy the fastest CPU you can afford. Presently its the i7-2600K, followed closely by the i5-2500K. Remember that the newer i5 & i7 are faster clock for clock than the previous generation. See here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...m-ii,2926.html
So get the best CPU with a good overclocking motherboard, then if you only run 1 GPU, you can live a less than 600W PSU, if you plan on running SLI/Crossfire go with a 750+ PSU.
In you case the last thing to upgrade should be the video card (GPU). Oleg's game seem to favor Nvidea. Don't know why? I prefer AMD myself. Here look here and decide.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...-590,2912.html |
Have to agree with this, I know ROF got its best boost for me when IO upgraded to an I7-920, I7's and I5's seem to be the way to go with flight sims, I run both ROF and CoD on med to high with the I7 and an old 8800gt, although I will be upgrading this when I see what amount of vram is going to be needed to run CoD with high settings.