hmmmm I posted that link to the DCS Black Shark forum. Don;t know how I forgot to post it here. Good looking out, gprr.
I came away from the article with the impression that the i7 processors well, this is a quote from the article, and I share this viewpoint.: "Despite the platform costs of upgrading to Core i7, Intel has engineered a CPU design with such massive parallelism that the PC community could be waiting years before a game developer truly takes advantage of its potential. In the immortal words of Ferris Bueller, “It is so choice. If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up.” I interpret this as saying the i7 is not a best bang-for-buck system just yet, performance-wise. Check out this report from HardOCP:
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?...hlbnRodXNpYXN0
In some of the tested games (though not in all the tested ones) even the E8500 is competitive at the 1900x resolution. In Lost Planet the E8500 draws even with the fastest i7 processor at 2560x1600 resolution.
Of course my only concern is how well a processor performs in combat flight sims. IL2 seemed to do better with the i7-920 than the with the older qx9770 but the lower resolution, 1280x1040 seems like a crt monitor rather than even a 19 inch lcd monitor. I assume most fliers are using lcd monitors nowadays so SimHq's test is not so relevant in that manner, imho. I'd like to see a true combat flight sim test on the i7 at lcd resolutions, and using the i7-940 that more people can afford rather than the i7-965 at $1000.00 USD. The X58 motherboard prices will drop only when the manufacturers release mid-level boards. We'll see what happens. eh?
Flyby out