Hexacore on my Asus board. Please?

[mbvdlza]

Guys

I can't find anyone here at work who knows  :

Ill ask here since everyone looks much nicer than most hardware forums.

Im on a very limited budget

What I currently have is this:

Asus AMD - M4A785TD-M EVO

AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 - Black Edition CPU - 3.2Ghz Socket AM3

I can get a a hexacore (AMD Phenom II X6 Hexa Core 1100T - Boxed CPU - 3.2Ghz Socket AM3 ) for an affordable price now, and would like to know if it would be possible to just drop it in on my board instead of the X4

Im sure this would make a difference, since XPlane is alot of cpu hungry

Thanks in advance

Marlon

[Nova]

You can place every cpu onto your mainboard, as long as it's the same socket.

So it should be no problem.

However, X-Plane will not benefit that much. X-Plane 10 will/meight, but not v9.

[Tonka]

The X4 and X6 are both socket AM3 , so it should work fine. However, it would be worth you flashing to the latest BIOS while you still have the X4 installed, just in case its needed for the X6 to operate correctly.

Nova is correct though, its a bit of a sideways upgrade, and the prices of the X6's will only drop further when the next gen chips arrive in a month or two.

[PhM]

Guys

I can't find anyone here at work who knows  :

...

Hi,

I went to Asus's web site and found this page.

PhM

[ArthurDent]

However, X-Plane will not benefit that much. X-Plane 10 will/meight, but not v9.

Nova, what is the science behind that?  Is it worth it to try to overclock my processor?

[Nova]

As far as i know, XP9 uses a max of 2 cores. Haven't seen it use more.

One for the flight dynamics, the second for scenery loads in the background.

Thus overclocking gives you more, than having more cores.

While i had 100% on both cores on the old sytem (C2D E8400@3.6GHz) i have

now 100% on one, and 20% on the second core, while another two are idle

(i5-2500k@4.0GHz). I had it on 4.5GHz for a while, but i didn't notice a

difference.

Except the CRJ  

[dpny]

As far as i know, XP9 uses a max of 2 cores. Haven't seen it use more.

One for the flight dynamics, the second for scenery loads in the background.

Thus overclocking gives you more, than having more cores.

While i had 100% on both cores on the old sytem (C2D E8400@3.6GHz) i have

now 100% on one, and 20% on the second core, while another two are idle

(i5-2500k@4.0GHz). I had it on 4.5GHz for a while, but i didn't notice a

difference.

Except the CRJ  

X-Plane will use all available cores to load scenery.