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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 |
Not really and certainly not if they thread it well. You need ram to have the game in memory so the cpu can calculate, you need it for the gpu etc. Also the fastest CPU wont help you if your gpu is crap, in all honesty COD does not push hardware components atm. The fastest i5 will not perform as well as a low range i7 in the future, you may have high GHZ but when my cpu can get double the work done with threading then yours can, you hit a cap where as I havent, because I havent even OCed it yet.
Also I would stay away from anything that is watercooled for a noob, unless he will learn to OC and maintain the system its not worth the cost.