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Overclock or get rid of the crappy video card? (Read 1170 times)

Dec 17^th, 2011 at 4:27am

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Hi,

I have a powerfull HP office computer
It has an Intel i5 3.2 Duo core processor 8gig's of RAM but a Nvidia Gforce 320 with about 250mb.

My FSX has been running slow lately. Probably because of the fact that it is at least 60gig's plus the NL-2000 addon.....
Anyway's, what would give a better result. Overclocking or get a video card that is actually capable of doing something?

EDIT: Oh and BTW: If there is any tweaks you know that also boosts the preformance of FSX, let me know plz.

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Reply #1 - Dec 17^th, 2011 at 4:50am

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1) Make sure you have installed SP1 and SP2 OR have Acceleration.

2) Use Bojote's Tweaking and Tuning tool for FSX: http://www.venetubo.com/fsx.html

That should increase performance by a lot.

3) Download NVIDIA Inspector and check the GPU load when running FSX. If it's really high, get a new graphics card. If the GPU load is not so high, overclock your CPU.

NVIDIA Inspector: http://downloads.guru3d.com/NVIDIA-Inspector-1.94-download-2612.html

You could also try upgrade your CPU to a quad core i5 or i7. It will give FSX a huge performance boost. What motherboard do you have?

i5 3570K @ 4.3GHz, ASRock Z77 Pro3, EVGA GTX 670 FTW, 8GB DDR3, 128GB Samsung 830, 500GB Seagate Barracuda, Thermaltake Armor A60, Logitech Extreme 3D Pro, Logitech K800, Logitech M510, Windows 8 Pro x64, FSX Acceleration

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Reply #2 - Dec 17^th, 2011 at 5:20am

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Flight Simulator X Gold edition is installed. (Fsx deluxe with Acceleration)

Thank you for the info.

Motherboardproperties:
   Motherboard ID                                  65-0100-000001-00101111-051910-LfdHvdImc$9AEIP007_
   Motherboardname                                  unknown

Front Side Bus properties:
   Bus Type                                        Intel QPI
   actual clockspeed                            129 Mhz
   effective clockspeed                         129 Mhz
   QPI klok                                        3090 Mhz

memory-properties:
   Bus Type                                        Dual DDR3 SDRAM
   Bus with                                     128 bit
   DRAM:FSB                                        6:8
   actual clockspeed                         97 Mhz (DDR)
   Effective clockspeed                         194 Mhz
   Bandwith                                        3104 MB/s

Motherboard    65-0100-000001-00101111-051910-LfdHvdImc$9AEIP007_
Motherboard    DMIMOBO: MSI 2A9C
Motherboard    DMISYS: Hewlett-Packard p6590nl
Motherboard    Unknown

Best info about the motherboard i could find. Undecided

« Last Edit: Dec 17^th, 2011 at 8:58am by Maverick260 »

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Reply #3 - Dec 17^th, 2011 at 12:06pm

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The results of overclocking a graphics card are usually pretty small, especially in CPU limited programs like FSX. In any case, overclock the graphics card (GPU + memory) and if it doesn't improve performance enough consider upgrading the graphics card or perhaps CPU (dual core i5s tend to not be very good). You usually cannot overclock the CPU with HP's.

Also be aware that overclocking can have negative consequences (reduced life etc..) and upgrading hardware often needs its own prerequisite hardware (for example, a power supply that can supply a certain amount of power).

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Reply #4 - Dec 17^th, 2011 at 12:22pm

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For overclocking tips, check the overclocking board is what I'd say. Other than that, I'd probably do more harm to your computer than good! Tongue

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Reply #5 - Dec 17^th, 2011 at 12:37pm

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You probably wouldn't get any better replies in the tweaking & overclocking subforums. I'm not sure why the hardware and overclocking subforums are separate given they deal with such similar topics.

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Reply #6 - Dec 19^th, 2011 at 12:33pm

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Allright... thanks

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