Upgrade to better GPU or to SSD?

kingpinda · #1 03-30-2011, 05:45 PM

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Originally Posted by 28_Condor

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GPU and RAM. RAM is cheaper and apparently is the most affecting performance in this game...

You did not say what your OS, but it must, without doubt, be the Win7

SP!

Where did you get the notion that RAM is most affecting performance? Back in the old day higher clocked mem meant alot. Nowadays its neglectable. Or if you were talking about gigs of RAM? the game only uses 2.x gig tops... Most computers have 3 or 4 gig I think. It being a 32 bit application more than 4Gig of ram is overkill.

In my opinion harddrive and cpu are the most common bottlenecks in these types of games. Offcourse you shouldnt use a 6600gt graphics card but a 4870 ati with 1gig should in most cases suffice.

I am planning to do a reinstall of win7 and use my sas 15k rpm drive for windows and il2/dcs A-10C. SSD might be on my wishlist soon but i'll try the 15K drive first. Because il2 not utilizing all memory even if you have win7 64 bit and 12 gigs of mem means it will use the HDD. And we all know that a 7200 HDD is the bottleneck on all systems.

Furthermore this game is not fully optimized for multithreading/multiple cores. sigh... DCS A-10C has this problem as well..

So if you have the option to choose between a dualcore with higher speed or a quad/octa core with lower speed of the same type, then the dualcore is a better investment. offcourse be aware of cpu throttling that exists nowadays. some types throttle higher than others.

edit: For any of you guys using multiple screens, touchscreens, eyefinity etc... What we discovered on the A-10C forums is that 1 GOOD card with multiple connections for monitors is better than 2 graphic cards. people switching back to 1 graphics card got an increase of 20 frames per second in combination with helios and eyefinity setups etc.

Devastat · #2 03-30-2011, 05:48 PM

@wolverine If I were you, I wouldn't upgrade my system for this game. I would wait till it gets optimised, and then upgrade if necessary. Even if you get the best hardware there is, the game won't run well yet in the current state.

bw_wolverine · #3 03-30-2011, 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Devastat

@wolverine If I were you, I wouldn't upgrade my system for this game. I would wait till it gets optimised, and then upgrade if necessary. Even if you get the best hardware there is, the game won't run well yet in the current state.

Yeah, that's maybe the best decision. I'm getting jumpy about it. It might be the waiting

I may end up getting a new gpu anyway since the 260 is showing its age.

Ploughman · #4 03-30-2011, 05:55 PM

Yeah, kick back and relax and when it's all bells and whistles then think about it.

bw_wolverine · #5 03-30-2011, 05:58 PM

Anyone know a good guide for overclocking the i7 940?

I've got very little experience with it. I've heard that if you've got good case airflow that you can OC the i7 920/940 a bit without needing anything other than the stock fan/heatsink. Obviously not gonna push 4ghz, but I think you can get it to 3.2 or some such.

I've got a nice roomy Antec P180 case.

nearmiss · #6 03-30-2011, 06:01 PM

Google on overclock, there are many sites with forums for overclockers.

The information on those sites is very up to date on latest equipment too.

kingpinda · #7 03-30-2011, 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by bw_wolverine

Anyone know a good guide for overclocking the i7 940?

I've got very little experience with it. I've heard that if you've got good case airflow that you can OC the i7 920/940 a bit without needing anything other than the stock fan/heatsink. Obviously not gonna push 4ghz, but I think you can get it to 3.2 or some such.

I've got a nice roomy Antec P180 case.

OCing is not something you just do :p its a sport... nah its not but you should really read alot about it. I think there is this site called ocforums or somesuch. There's quite a bit involved in ocing your rig stable. trial and error. every cpu behaves differently. even if its the same series and production line then its no guarantee that because person A clocked his cpu to 4ghz on stock cooling that person B gets the same result. It could be that person B gets it stable to 3.750ghz with exactly the same system.

Have fun though. its a cool passtime

kimosabi · #8 03-30-2011, 06:49 PM

Get on overclock.net, BW. You won't find a better place to learn overclocking all at one forum. Well, you have extremesystems.com but they have slower servers.

As for the upgrade, get rid of that GTX260 and slap whatever upgrade you can afford in there instead. Your proc is probably bored.

Do NOT overclock that cpu more than max 200mHz with a stock cooler. They emit heat faster than you can say barbeque.

Bf110pilot · #9 03-31-2011, 05:23 AM

How much and what difference would a 7200HD vs a 10,000HD do for this game or anygame?

Codex · #10 03-31-2011, 05:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Bf110pilot

How much and what difference would a 7200HD vs a 10,000HD do for this game or anygame?

Depends on the size of the HDD. There are circumstances where a 2TB 7200 HDD can give faster transfer rates with data near the centre of the plater than a 350GB 10000 HDD. This is because for each mm of plater space the 2TB HDD has more data squeezed in than the 350GB, this is of course both the HDD have same number of platters.

I personally partition my OS HDD with two partitions: The very first partition is a 10GB partition for the swap / page file and the second is for the OS, that way with memory intensive operations the swap file gets the fastest section of the HDD.