Hi All,
I'd like to get back into flight simming and am pretty content to stick with FSX (though I'd like to try XPlane also). I like flying with a full contingent of AI aircraft, would like to get into ATC/VATsim and would like to upgrade to photo-real scenery for the UK. I mainly fly airliners on short flights. I've just brought my desktop machine back to life but it always struggled with frame rates at the busiest airports with AI, so I can only imagine it being worse when I upgrade the scenery.
I'd prefer to stick with this machine, and preferably not replace the motherboard, so I think I need to look into a CPU and RAM upgrade.
Here's my current spec:
Gigabyte GA-870A-UD3 Motherboard
Saphire R5770 HD 1GB PCI-E HDMI DVI Graphics (Dual Sceening)
AMD PHENOM II X2 555 AM3 BLACK (3.8GHz Overclock)
4GB DDR3 PC3-10600 RAM
SanDisk SDSSDA240G (240 GB) SSD (Windows and FSX)
1TB Samsung HD103SJ Spinpoint F3 HDD (Storage)
Samsung SH-S223L/BEBE 22x DVD±R, 8x
Coolermaster Hyper 212 Quiet Cooler
Coolermaster Elite 335 Mid Tower Case
Win 7 64bit
A PassMark test (done on previous Win10 install, but same hardware) shows the CPU and RAM as the weak points:
https://www.passmark.com/baselines/V...id=95330729188
The m/board was made before the days of AM3+ but this site claims the FX-4130 processor is supported. If that's feasible, why not other AM3+ FX series CPUs? Is it likely the other would also work in practice?
If so, which is likely the best bang for buck, given the high performance ones focus on 8-core which isn't going to help with FSX?
Thanks!
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