mav007

I'm now in two minds. Spend $225 AUD on the AMD FX-8350 for a temporary FPS hit of 20-40% (?) that will satisfy my eye candy requirements for 6-12 months and then go buy a brand spanker sooper-dooper puta fully spec'd to god mode status. Or, hold off on the risk that the new CPU won't give me than 20% FPS increase and wait a little while longer and splurge then. Truly a first world problem...

All good, thanks for the advice. Gives me an excuse to buy a new puta with SSD sometime in the future. BTW, Windows 7 or 8.1 for XPX?

Thanks √-1. I figured as much. The question is therefore, does an AMD FX-8350 have sufficient single thread performance for X-plane 10 to turn up the graphics to at least medium settings and maintain >35 fps at somewhere like KSEA? FYR, I'm at ~97% CPU in game, and GPU-Z reports load of 30-35% at KSEA on my ATI 6950 with my current gfx settings (every thing turned down most of the way (if not entirely) except texture resolution at max since gfx card has 2GB on board). BTW, running at 2560x1440.

Hi folks First post, please be gentle. Long time fan of FSX, and more recently XPX. However, with my AMD x4 965 BE and Radeon 6950 I'm suffering with FPS to the point where I don't enjoy flying without all the bling on screen. I have read numerous threads and reports stating that XPX now supports multi cores and HT, so I was wondering how much an upgrade to the FX-8350 will increase my FPS. I am not prepared to shell out for a whole new Mobo/RAM/i7 and GPU just yet, so can any please advise if I will notice a significant improvement over my current h/w with the simple upgrade in CPU? If so, will my GPU pose the biggest bottleneck. Thanks