How many ghz needed?

[Katana1000S]

Originally Posted by Flyby

Thanks b101. So at 2.66 ghz your cpu's first core is hardly taxed by CoD even as the other cores show little use?
Katana, your cpu @4ghz helps over the stock clock how?. I'm not understanding what you mean in light of b101's claim that at stock speed his 920 is hardly taxed.
I'm a bit confused.
thanks,
Flyby out

I meant most flights sims/games in general, FSX in particular sees a big performance gain once the CPU is over-clocked.

Once IL2 is properly optimised for CPU and multi-core we should see those same sort of gains too in this sim.

EDIT: and come to think of it, IL2 CoD maxs out core one on my quad at stock speed and over-clocked ... I use a G19 keyboard with the performance meter on its LCD and can monitor core usage in real time while flying the sim.

I can only speak for myself, too many variables with different PC hardware, one obvious difference between my rig and b101's is that I'm using a GTX570.

[Flyby]

Thanks for the clarification, Katana. I agree, there are too many variables between systems. I also agree that older sims benefit from an overclocked cpu. I think CFS3 falls into that category, as it was a cpu-hog too.

I also agree that hopefully, IL2_CoD will benefit from multi-core optimizing. In fact Luthier seems to be indicating that the results should be pretty good once optimizing is done. We'll see. Certainly we all hope that's true.
Flyby out